Sara Zimmerman, a former lifestyle/entertainment reporter for the Oshkosh Northwestern and (Appleton) Post-Crescent, has released a new novel.

"Every Dark Shadow," is a young adult/adult crossover fantasy set across parallel versions of New York in the 1800s. It was released under the pen name Sara Zimm. Zimmerman earned her journalism degree in 2005 from UW-Oshkosh, where she wrote for the student newspaper The Advance-Titan. She worked as a reporter for Gannett from 2005 to 2008, before shifting to a career in marketing and communications. She resides in Appleton with her husband and son.

Meg Kissinger, whose reporting on the broken Milwaukee County mental health care system led to public policy changes, has told the story of her own family's mental health crises in her new book "While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.

Through interviewing her surviving siblings; digging through diaries and letters, public and medical records; and even tracking down a babysitter from decades ago, Kissinger pieces together the portrait of a clan that's simultaneously loving and troubled, writes Jim Higgins of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.