BY: O.R. Sykora Where does a story come from, and how do its roots grow? There may be as many answers to this question as there are writers in the world. Perhaps there’s a different answer for every story ever written. Years ago, while the plot for Son of the Mountain...

Before John Johanssen ever set foot in Emerald Valley as the man readers meet in Under the August Sky, he was a shy, insecure young adult everyone had once called "Fat JoJo," and who was carrying four years of high school humiliation onto a college campus three...

What do you do when the people who were supposed to show you God were the ones who hurt you most? That's the question that beats at the heart of Heather Tekavec's debut historical fiction novel, Good Road to Follow, and that hearbeat is the reason readers will...