OUR EXTRA GOODIES
Have you signed up for a workshop and want to get a jump start on some of the exercises? Or maybe you just need a good book to read on the plane or a special gift? Browse our goodies below.
Rewrite Your Life (Self-help/Nonfiction)
Shortlisted for an Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction!
According to common wisdom, we all have a book inside of us. But how do you select and then write your most significant story―the one that helps you to evolve and invites pure creativity into your life, the one that people line up to read? In Rewrite Your Life, creative writing professor, sociologist, and popular fiction author Jessica Lourey guides you through the redemptive process of writing a healing novel that recycles and transforms your most precious resources―your own emotions and experiences.
Join Jess Lourey, MA, MS, writing professor, recipient of The Loft Literary Center's Excellence in Teaching fellowship, and Amazon Charts bestselling author of over 20 books to learn how to write the book you're meant to write. These online, self-paced courses are designed for all levels of writers, from beginning to experienced, and work for fiction or memoir, unless otherwise noted in the course description.
Better Than Gin (Coloring Book)
Designed to help aspiring, stuck, or visual writers, Better than Gin: A Coloring Book for Writers combines art and narrative to stimulate your creative brain while silencing your self-doubt. The result? You get to finally write that story you're meant to write.
The Catalain Book of Secrets (Women’s Fiction)
A lush, bewitching novel about poisonous secrets, powerful love, and the magic we all carry. "Think Alice Hoffman...spell-binding!" ―Midwest Book Review
"Prolific mystery writer Lourey tells of a matriarchal clan of witches joining forces against age-old evil...The novel is tightly plotted, and Lourey shines when depicting relationships―romantic ones as well as tangled links between Catalains." ―Kirkus Reviews
"Lourey expertly concocts a Gothic fusion of long-held secrets, melancholy, and resolve...Exquisitely written in naturally flowing, expressive language, the book delves into the special relationships between sisters, and mothers and daughters." ―Publishers Weekly
The Quarry Girls (Crime Fiction)
Killers hiding in plain sight. Small-town secrets. A girl who knows too much. From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline comes a nerve-twisting novel inspired by a shocking true crime.
Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it’s not all fun and games.
Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can’t forget. They’ve decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears—the second girl to vanish in a week. And yet the authorities are reluctant to investigate.
Heather is terrified that the missing girls are connected to what she and Brenda stumbled upon that night. Desperately searching for answers on her own, she learns that no one in her community is who they seem to be. Not the police, not the boys she met at the quarry, not even her parents. But she can’t stop digging because she knows those girls are in danger. She also knows she’s next.
The Toadhouse Trilogy: Book One (Young Adult)
Aine believes herself to be a regular teenager in 1930s Missouri, but when a blue-eyed monster named Biblos attacks, she discovers that the reclusive woman raising her isn't really her grandmother and that she's been living inside Tom Sawyer for the past five years. With her blind brother, Spenser, she flees the pages of the novel she's called home, one terrifying step ahead of Biblos' black magic. Her only chance at survival lies in beating him to the three objects that he desires more than life.
As she undertakes her strange and dangerous odyssey, Aine must choose between a family she doesn't remember and her growing attraction to a mysterious young man named Gilgamesh. Only through treacherous adventures into The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Tale of Two Cities, and the epic Indian saga The Ramayana will she learn her true heritage and restore the balance of the fictional worlds... if she can stay alive.
April Fools (Romcom Mystery)
⭐ Jess named to Book Riot's "10 Funny Mystery Authors Like Janet Evanovich" list!
Librarian and aspiring PI Mira James has stumbled across one dead body a month since moving to the small town of Battle Lake, Minnesota, and she'd give her left foot to break that streak this April. Things aren't looking good when a local girl vanishes and Mira discovers a disturbing note that suggests her father—dead for ten years—is connected to the disappearance.
To make matters worse, chiseled police chief Gary Wohnt is scrutinizing her every move, aching to finally put her behind bars or in bed. And the cherry on this crap sundae? Mira discovers that her sexy Adonis boyfriend, Johnny, is planning a surprise for her. Problem is, she doesn't know if it's a marriage proposal or an intervention.
April Fools is a funny and fast-paced romcom mystery guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat when you aren't laughing in the aisles. Grab your copy and join the Battle Lake crew today!