Today's guest is Stacey Swann. She was one of my professors at the Stanford University Online Novel Writing Certificate program, and I learned so much about writing from her. Her debut novel, Olympus, Texas(Doubleday) was a Good Morning AmericaBook Club selection, an...
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women is part history, part archeology, and part social criticism of the later re-interpretations of the Icelandic sagas. Brown admits that much of the book is speculation based on archeological finds throughout...
In Sandie Jones’s The Guilt Trip, three couples travel to Portugal for a destination wedding. Rachel and Jack are the sister-in-law and brother of the groom, Will, who is already on site. Their friends Noah and Paige accompany them on the same flight as does Ali, the...
Today I have the pleasure of introducing Negeen Papehn, an #ownvoices author, filling her stories with Iranian women. She was born and raised in southern California, where she currently lives with her husband and two boys. She wasn’t always a writer. A graduate of USC...
My attention was captured within the first paragraph of this delightful, unique, somewhat weird book. It was captivating enough I could suspend disbelief through the entire novel. I loved it! Tiny, a human, has intercourse with a female owl and becomes pregnant with...
This week I am chatting with the effervescent Carly Bloom. She began her writing career as a family humor columnist and blogger, a pursuit she abandoned when her children grew old enough to die from embarrassment. To save their delicate lives, Carly turned to penning...
Initially I had mixed feelings about this book. In the beginning, I felt the author was trying too hard to be literary. I frequently had to look up words in the dictionary (not that this is a bad thing, but it took me out of the story to do so). The Archivist is a...
This week I have the pleasure of visiting with a writer of many talents and many noms de plume. S.M. Goodwin is one of the pen names used by S.M. LaViolette, a Canadian transplant who lives in the mountains of New Mexico. She began writing in 2013 after closing her...
An enjoyable historical fiction novel. I was transported to Paris in the mid 1850s with the Carbonari (an Italian radical group to which Lord Byron belonged) plotting against the French Emperor, Napoleon III, in an effort to get him to back them in their attempts to...
Today I'm joined by Wilnona Marie and Brandy Miller. Wilnona is an Advocate Awarded poet known for her quick wit, ability to laugh at herself, and being a pop poet. She has contributed writings to eleven books or what she calls" literary life guides w/ pop poetry":...
Velvet Was the Night is more noir than thriller; it seems like an updated Raymond Chandler-esque book. The tone is persistently dark, even bleak, but the reader gets the sense that the point-of-view characters will come through. It is set during the 1970s, a decade in...
This week I have the privilege of speaking with Victoria Belue about her journey as an author. She is the author of the Tarot Legacies series and has been reading tarot cards and interpreting dreams for thirty years. Before embarking on her writing journey, she was an...
On today's blog, I interview Casey Dembowski, author of When We're Thirty. The first story she remembers writing was in the second grade, though it wasn't until she was twelve that she started carrying a battered composition notebook around everywhere. Since then,...
The Vigilante Game by Meghan Scott Molin is the third and final book in her Golden Arrow series. It is a humorous contemporary mystery/romantic comedy with diverse characters: a geeky female main character (Michael-Grace), her straight-laced cop boyfriend (Matteo),...
SS: Today I have the pleasure of chatting with a dynamic duo of authors, Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry. They met as co-workers in New York City in 2012, discovering a shared passion for writing and true crime. After Steph relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina in...
SS: Today, Makenna Lee joins me to talk about her writing. Makenna is an award-winning romance author who lives in the Texas Hill Country with her real-life hero and their two children. Her oldest son has Down syndrome and taught her to appreciate the little things....
Erika Montgomery, in her debut novel A Summer to Remember, does a superlative job binding multiple points of view and dual timelines, the present and the 1980s. Frankie and her mother, Maeve, run a Hollywood memorabilia shop. Maeve never told Frankie much about...
In Kathleen Basi's new book, A Song for the Road, Miriam Tedesco’s husband and teenage children were killed by a drunk driver who crossed the median. A year later, she’s still in a tailspin, dealing with regrets and loss of faith. The arrival of a bouquet of...
Rising and Other Stories by Gayle Massey is a collection of thirteen short stories to be savored. They deal with loss in one form or another, from the death of a parent to the loss of innocence. The first, “Glass”, deals with a girl’s first experience with racism. The...
Today I welcome award-winning mystery and children’s book author, Saralyn Richard, a writer who teaches on the side. Before fulfilling her lifelong dream as an author, Saralyn worked in urban high schools as a teacher, administrator, and school improvement consultant....
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