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Women’s Fiction Day—Eleanora in Pieces Free Ebook Giveaway!

Eleanora in Pieces ebook giveaway

Every year, the Women’s Fiction Writers Association honors the genre their writers specialize in on June 8th—Women’s Fiction Day. To help celebrate, the ebook version of my women’s fiction book, Eleanora in Pieces, will be free for 3 days only: June 7-9th! Get your copy at the link below.

About Eleanora in Pieces:

It’s been two years since her 4-year-old son… her baby… her Owen… disappeared from his bed in the middle of the night.

Every day Eleanora waits for news that he’s been found. And every day she lives with the nightmare of knowing that she failed to protect her son.

Intuition tells her that Owen is alive, and Eleanora shuts out everyone who doesn’t believe. But she fails to see that her single-minded hope has come at the expense of everything else she used to care about. With her career ruined, her marriage disintegrating, and her family coping with the loss in ways she can’t understand, Eleanora is left trying to claw her way out of the black hole her world has become.

When an unexpected surprise suddenly offers Eleanora a second chance at happiness, she is shocked to feel…nothing.

Doubting her own worth, questioning her right to find peace, and still praying for her son’s return, Eleanora struggles to see that life, ugly and painful as it can be, might still be worth living.

Hear Us Roar Podcast: Episode 306

Hear Us Roar Podcast with Jessica Maffetore

Hear Us Roar: The debut author podcast with host, Maggie Smith, from the Women’s Fiction Writers Association

This week’s guest is Jessica Maffetore (Eleanora in Pieces, Black Rose Writing, September 2024). If you’ve ever wondered about what happens when a small press “ghosts” its writers and eventually breaks its contract, this is a must-listen. Jessica describes the process of surviving this challenge and finding another small press about losing a year in publishing purgatory, and the hidden pluses that came from that experience, including a longer runway for social media and the networking community of fellow writers that helped her navigate.

Hear us Roar Podcast Episode 306 with author Jessica Maffetore:

Top Reads of 2025

Top Reads of 2025

Another year, another chance to share my favorite books of the year. Here are the top reads of 2025 (in my totally unique and unbiased opinion)! So many great books, but these were the ones I enjoyed the most. They are each 100% worth a read!

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
A woman washes ashore on a remote island, home to an isolated family. Storms, secrets, and savage landscape made this a stunningly beautiful, gripping story.

Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein
As the daughters of a young single mother, the Lowe sisters grew up knowing the meaning of sacrifice. But life will push them so much further than they could have ever imagined.

The Wedding People by Alison Espach
On the worst day of her life, Phoebe accidentally crashes a wedding and the bride makes it her mission to fix everything.

The Eights by Joanna Miller
Four women form an instant friendship, despite their vast differences, when they become members of the first female class at Oxford University in 1920.

My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Eighteen-year-old Louisa, struggling to find her way in the world, comes to possess a famous painting, and makes it her mission to learn the story of not only the artist, but the incredible friendships that played a part in his life, and the soul of his work.

What were your top reads of 2025?

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