This fall has been an exciting one for Fiction Writers Review. Shortly before Labor Day, we launched our Facebook page and began our ongoing Book of the Week promotions. Each week we’re giving away several free copies of a featured book we love. No catch, no gimmicks. To be eligible for this and all future [...]

How is it September already? Summer seems to have suddenly vanished–school is starting, college football is underway, and it was fifty degrees here in Ann Arbor yesterday. Fall is on the horizon.
Likewise, the 3rd annual Dzanc Books Write-a-Thon is nearly complete. But you still have until the end of today to join in! Just send [...]

Here’s a recap of the features that rounded out August on Fiction Writers Review:

Tyler McMahon interviews Tatjana Soli, author of The Lotus Eaters. Says Soli:
I traveled in Asia briefly with my husband years before I thought of writing the book. Once I was deep into the research, I planned a trip to Vietnam that [...]

In case you missed them, here’s a roundup of recent features from FWR:

li>In an interview with Christopher Mohar, author and teacher Anthony Doerr discusses his curiosity about the world and “engaging with factual information for fictive purposes”:
What I work to dispel in my students is the prevailing myth that inspiration comes like a light bulb [...]

Did you miss FWR Editor Jeremiah Chamberlin on the “Living Writers” show on Wednesday? No worries. You can now stream the podcast on iTunes preview—mouse over the August 11th episode and click play, or click “View in iTunes” to download. The interview starts at about 15:30.
“Living Writers” airs every Wednesday [...]

We’re excited to announce that FWR Editor Jeremiah Chamberlin will be this week’s guest on “Living Writers”, hosted by T. Hetzel. “Living Writers” airs every Wednesday at 4:30pm on WCBN-FM Ann Arbor. Tune in to hear him discuss Fiction Writers Review, his own writing, the Inside Indie Bookstore series he publishes in Poets & Writers [...]

We’re pleased to announce that Percival’s Planet, the most recent novel by FWR Contributor Michael Byers, was released today. The book was inspired by the true story of the discovery of Pluto and takes place during the late 1920s. Told from multiple perspectives–a farm boy in Kansas who grinds his own telescope lenses, a young [...]

Here’s a roundup of the latest features FWR was pleased to bring you over the past two weeks:

T.L. Crum reviews Michelle Hoover’s debut novel The Quickening:
The Quickening follows the journeys of two Iowa families trying to build their lives amid the hardships of the Great Depression. Like Hoover, I’m a descendent of Iowa farmers, so [...]

Hiding out from the heat wave this weekend? Here’s the perfect reading material while you seek out some A/C: FWR’s features from the past two weeks, including three reviews of debut novels and an interview with a veteran:

Michael Rudin reviews Hesh Kestin’s The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats, observing:
In the end, Iron Will isn’t [...]

In case you missed them, here are the latest features, which FWR was proud to publish over the past month:

Greg Schutz reviews American Salvage, by Bonnie Jo Campbell, noting that many of the stories
[evoke] the ache at the center of the rural experience with startling clarity and force. The stories in American Salvage know what [...]