M.E. Hilliard’s debut novel, The Unkindness of Ravens, grabbed me from the first page. I was hooked by the first person narrator, Greer Hogan, a former New York City high-powered executive who turns into a small town librarian after the death of her husband. Greer’s...
In Times of Rain and War by Camron Wright is a fictionalized World War II historical novel that looks at the British Bomb Disposal Unit and is based, in part, upon diaries written by volunteers. It describes the devastation and destruction of England, particularly...
Barbara Linn Probst is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, living on an historic dirt road in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her debut novel Queen of the Owls (April 2020) is the powerful story of a woman’s search for wholeness, framed around the art and life of...
My guest today is Debra Whiting Alexander. She's won multiple awards for her debut novel, Zetty, including the prestigious 2018 WILLA Literary Award in Contemporary Fiction. Prior to making the leap into Women’s Fiction, she authored numerous nonfiction books for...
The Sound between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst is beautifully-written, engrossing, and emotional journey through a woman’s search for her own identify. Throughout the novel, Susannah’s choices have dramatic effects upon her family. Adopted at birth, the...
Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love is beautifully-written, engrossing, and emotional journey through a woman’s search for her own identity. Throughout the memoir, Ms. MacDonald’s choices have rippling effects on herself and her family. Adopted at birth,...
This is another book that has been lingering on my Kindle, and having now read it, I wonder why it took me so long. I would have read this book in one sitting, but my Kindle died at 92%. I raced to my back-up Kindle only to find I’d failed to recharge it. So I had to...
Amanda Skenandore joins me today. I haven't gotten the Covid vaccine yet, so I remain in semi-isolation. But I'd wear a mask if this was an in-person interview rather than a long-distance e-mail interview and I'm sure Amanda would, too. Amanda is the author of two...
Henry Hayden is a great unreliable, unlikeable character with just enough good within him to be a somewhat likable soul, yet he wreaks a swath of destruction in his wake, from childhood on. Currently he manifests himself as a well-known, prolific writer; but his wife...
Ginny Friedlander Fite, an award-winning journalist and writer, joins me today for a Covid-safe interview. She is the author of five previous novels, a humorous book on aging, three collections of poetry and a collection of short stories. Nominated for a Pushcart...
The Windsor Knot was an interesting set-up of a mystery, somewhat akin to an Agatha Christie. The switch is that the detective is the Queen of England. As a queen and a nonagenarian, she has limitations on what she can do, both in terms of protocol and her advanced...
I'm welcoming Dave Patterson to the blog today in another Covid-safe interview. Dave holds an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. His work has appeared in Slice Magazine, Salon, Hot Metal...
Writers seem to be rediscovering the feminist and ace reporter Nellie Bly. A vibrant, stubborn young woman thirsted to become a female journalist during the 1890s when women were relegated to the home. Bly was truly an independent woman, one of the early pioneers of...
Joining me today is Densie (not Denise) Webb. She grew up in Louisiana, spent thirteen years in New York, and settled in Austin, TX, where it’s summer nine months out of the year. She's an avid walker (not of the dead variety, though she loves anything to do with...
It was refreshing to read a beach read in the winter. Though The Newcomer seems a bit long, I read it in one sitting. This is a classic fish-out-of-water story. The Newcomer revolves around Letty, formerly a Southern woman who now lives in NYC. When she finds her...
I’m trying to catch up on books lingering in the depths of my to-be-read pile and pulled this one out. The Gardener of Baghdad opens in a bookstore in Baghdad during modern times. With the current unrest and political fighting, Adnan, the owner of the bookstore, is...
Gayle Woodson is an award-winning writer and internationally-respected surgical educator. She began her career a time when female surgeons were an oddity and was one of the first women to train as a surgical resident at Johns Hopkins. She's been involved in...
Outlawed is an amazing speculative Western that really shakes up the Western genre by tackling the patriarchy, gender roles/identity, race, religion, fertility, and medicine in a unique way. The protagonist is irresistible: a no-nonsense, determined heroine, who has...
I read In a Town Called Paradox shortly after reading Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, set in the same geographic area. Paradox is, in part, the story of how cowboy movies began to be made in Utah—which is diametrically opposed to Abbey’s vision of the West,...
Visiting with me in a safe distanced interview is Rea Frey. Rea is the celebrated author of Not Her Daughter, Because You're Mine, and Until I Find You as well as four nonfiction books, so she's been around the publishing block. Her passions include telling stories,...
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