Joan Schweighardt
@joanschweighardt.bsky.social
Author: The Rivers Trilogy, The Last Wife of Attila the Hun (Ippy/ForeWord awards), Under the Blue Moon, and more. Editor: The Art of Touch: A Collection of Prose and Poetry From the Pandemic and Beyond (University of Georgia Press, 2023)
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Book World News. These books disqualified from New Zealand lit contest for having AI generated covers:
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Book World News. These books disqualified from New Zealand lit contest for having AI generated covers:
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Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs
Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligence use
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November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Book World News. These books disqualified from New Zealand lit contest for having AI generated covers:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Book World News. These books disqualified from New Zealand lit contest for having AI generated covers:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Poetry books to help us think about that elusive quantifier of all things physical and spiritual, time:
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8 Poetry Books That Distort and Manipulate Time - Electric Literature
These poets assert agency over the wobbly bounds of temporality
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November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Poetry books to help us think about that elusive quantifier of all things physical and spiritual, time:
electricliterature.com/8-poetry-boo...
electricliterature.com/8-poetry-boo...
If you've always meant to read him but don't know where to start, The Guardian's put together a list of Salman Rushdie's best books.
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Memoirs, myths and Midnight’s Children: Salman Rushdie’s 10 best books – ranked!
As the author publishes a new story collection, we rate the work that made his name – from his dazzling Booker winner to an account of the 2022 attack that nearly killed him
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November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you've always meant to read him but don't know where to start, The Guardian's put together a list of Salman Rushdie's best books.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Year of Judging the Booker Prize
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November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Classics that deal with "existential dread" selling better than ever. Why?
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‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst
Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and the...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Classics that deal with "existential dread" selling better than ever. Why?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Today my book news is about myself. My newest novel, In the Wonder, will be published by Regal House in 2027. I'm thrilled and most grateful. I will be in such excellent company. Check out their amazing book list... and my bio.
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Joan Schweighardt
Even before my first novel was published, someone knocked on my door to say he had recently survived a harrowing ordeal in a foreign country and needed a professional to ghostwrite his story. I exp…
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October 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today my book news is about myself. My newest novel, In the Wonder, will be published by Regal House in 2027. I'm thrilled and most grateful. I will be in such excellent company. Check out their amazing book list... and my bio.
regalhousepublishing.com/joan-schweig...
regalhousepublishing.com/joan-schweig...
If you love basketball, you will want to know about these books, from Literary Hub:
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Five Classic Books Every Basketball Lover Should Read
In 1992, George Plimpton used the pages of the paper of record to share his theory on sportswriting: “The smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature,” he wrote. “There are superb books ab…
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October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you love basketball, you will want to know about these books, from Literary Hub:
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Korean author of self-help memoir dies very young. RIP Baek Se-hee.
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Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35
The Korean author’s hit self-help memoir, which follows her conversations with her psychiatrist, sold more than a million copies worldwide
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October 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Korean author of self-help memoir dies very young. RIP Baek Se-hee.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
New book review from Five Directions Press. Thanks to Jeanine Cummins, C.M. Rawlins, and Katie Tietjen for writing books we couldn't put down.
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Books We Loved, Oct. 25
Books we loved at Five Directions Press in October 2025, by Jeanine Cummins, CM Rawlins, and Katie Tietjen
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October 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New book review from Five Directions Press. Thanks to Jeanine Cummins, C.M. Rawlins, and Katie Tietjen for writing books we couldn't put down.
www.fivedirectionspress.com/post/books-w...
www.fivedirectionspress.com/post/books-w...
This is me walking into the gym yesterday. I am passing a window that is totally black. Photographer Michael Dooley, walking behind, sees a distorted reflection of the street in the glass that is invisible to me, so he waits for me to get there to snap his snazzy photo. Perspective is everything.
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is me walking into the gym yesterday. I am passing a window that is totally black. Photographer Michael Dooley, walking behind, sees a distorted reflection of the street in the glass that is invisible to me, so he waits for me to get there to snap his snazzy photo. Perspective is everything.
New Mexico, Land of Enchantment today for sure. Welcome to Albuquerque, ballooners.
October 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
New Mexico, Land of Enchantment today for sure. Welcome to Albuquerque, ballooners.
VegOut Magazine says these are the books to read to be well read. See if you agree, or if you have anything to add to the list.
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If you own these 8 books, you’re more well-read than 95% of the population
Most shelves are filled with trends; only a few hold the books that quietly rewire your perspective on life.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
VegOut Magazine says these are the books to read to be well read. See if you agree, or if you have anything to add to the list.
vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/z-...
vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/z-...
Octopuses, dragons, crystals, minerals and more. Meet Jenny S. Burke, author of numerous books you and your loved ones will want to know about, here in my Five Directions Press interview with her.
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Spotlight Interview with J.S. Burke
Spotlight Interview with J.S. Burke, author of the Dragon Dreamer series and other works, aimed at readers of all ages
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September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Octopuses, dragons, crystals, minerals and more. Meet Jenny S. Burke, author of numerous books you and your loved ones will want to know about, here in my Five Directions Press interview with her.
www.fivedirectionspress.com/post/spotlig...
www.fivedirectionspress.com/post/spotlig...
My colleague Faye Rapoport DesPres
has worked with an East European artist to create a magnificent kids' book called Toys at Night. If in Europe, it's available at www.goldfishbooksuk.com and Waterstone’s. Here in the US at this time you can only get it through Faye, www.fayerapoportdespres.com.
has worked with an East European artist to create a magnificent kids' book called Toys at Night. If in Europe, it's available at www.goldfishbooksuk.com and Waterstone’s. Here in the US at this time you can only get it through Faye, www.fayerapoportdespres.com.
September 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My colleague Faye Rapoport DesPres
has worked with an East European artist to create a magnificent kids' book called Toys at Night. If in Europe, it's available at www.goldfishbooksuk.com and Waterstone’s. Here in the US at this time you can only get it through Faye, www.fayerapoportdespres.com.
has worked with an East European artist to create a magnificent kids' book called Toys at Night. If in Europe, it's available at www.goldfishbooksuk.com and Waterstone’s. Here in the US at this time you can only get it through Faye, www.fayerapoportdespres.com.
This month's Five Directions Press "Books We Loved" features reviews of books by Liana De La Rosa, Katie Kitamura, and Chrystal Schleyer.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This month's Five Directions Press "Books We Loved" features reviews of books by Liana De La Rosa, Katie Kitamura, and Chrystal Schleyer.
www.fivedirectionspress.com/post/books-w...
www.fivedirectionspress.com/post/books-w...
We know about the books that Abraham Maslow wrote, but his early death kept him from writing several others. Here's the rundown on what they would have been about.
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The Books Maslow Never Lived to Write
Maslow's unwritten books remain relevant for contemporary psychology.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We know about the books that Abraham Maslow wrote, but his early death kept him from writing several others. Here's the rundown on what they would have been about.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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From Electric Literature, books about friendships between humans and wild animals:
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8 Books About Wild Animal Companions - Electric Literature
From hawks to snails to octopuses, we can learn a lot from these creatures and the people who bond with them
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September 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
From Electric Literature, books about friendships between humans and wild animals:
electricliterature.com/8-books-abou...
electricliterature.com/8-books-abou...
This is an amazing and beautiful essay, to read or listen to. This made my day. That's why I'm sharing it.
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Telling the Bees – Emily Polk
Bees have long been witness to human grief, carrying messages between the living and the dead. Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an...
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August 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is an amazing and beautiful essay, to read or listen to. This made my day. That's why I'm sharing it.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/tellin...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/tellin...