Today I have the pleasure and honor of chatting with Mary Kellikoa. She is the author of the Shamus finalist and Lefty, Agatha and Anthony award nominated PI Kelly Pruett mystery series and the upcoming Misty Pines mystery series featuring Portland homicide detective...
It was interesting reading Whiskey When We’re Dry in relatively close proximity to Outlawed by Anna North. Outlawed is an amazing speculative Western that really shakes up the Western genre by tackling the patriarchy, gender roles/identity, race, religion, fertility,...
I was sucked into this macabre book from the first page. It’s like The Addams Family meets true crime television. It contains all the elements to draw a reader in. A mother’s obsessive grief leads her to actions that scar her family forever, leaving them dysfunctional...
Today, I chat with the inimitable Harriet Rogers, author of the Honey Walker Adventure Series. SS: Tell us how you came to be a writer. HR: It was part of my retirement plan. I drove a taxi for five years, and the stories were amazing. SS: Have you always been driven...
Set in New Mexico in 1952, Kari Bovée’s Bones of the Redeemed is an excellent historical mystery. Bovée won the 2019 Hillerman Southwest Fiction Award. She writes strong female heroines and writes them well, but Ruby Delgado must be her best yet. Ruby thinks quickly...
Randee Green chats with me today. She's the author of the Carrie Shatner Mystery series and the Zoey Wilde Mystery series. Her passion for reading began in grade school with Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She has a bachelor's degree in English...
Where the Truth Lies is a dark, claustrophobic vision of a small American logging town in Colorado which is caught in a multi-layered web of lies. The novel defines depression and bleakness while dealing with the worst of America: spousal abuse, controlling spouses,...
The classic myths we read in high school tell us of conquests of men and the glory they achieved from this events. A Thousand Ships focuses on the women in a unique perspective, told by Calliope, the goddess of epic poetry as she answers the pleas of a poet for...
Today my guest is the prolific author, Kathryn Gauci. She was born in Leicestershire, England, and studied textile design at Loughborough College of Art and later at Kidderminster College of Art and Design where she specialized in carpet design and technology. After...
Prospects of a Woman looks at women’s rights and status during the Gold Rush. California was at the forefront of women’s rights, allowing women to own property, divorce, etc. unlike most of the United States. In 1850, Elizabeth and Nate travel from an apple orchard in...
Jenny Jaeckel is the award-winning author and illustrator of several books including her novel Boy, Falling (a companion book to House of Rougeaux), a collection of illustrated short fiction entitled For the Love of Meat, and the graphic novel memoir Spot 12: Five...
We Were Never Here caught my attention from the first page. Emily, a nearly-thirty woman, has takes annual trips to some exotic locale with her friend of ten years, Kristen. In Quiteria, Chile, Emily has a momentary vision of pushing Kristen off an elevated wooden...
Wondra Chang studied journalism at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1970 and currently lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Bernard Rauch. I met her several years ago at a writing conference in San Antonio, and...
Incense and Sensibility is a rather loose retelling of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. It is the third in the Rajes series but works well as a stand-alone. The novel deals with Yash Raje, who’s been a character in the prior novels, but comes into his own here. He...
Guinotte Wise writes and welds steel sculpture on a farm in Resume Speed, Kansas. His short story collection (Night Train, Cold Beer) won publication by a university press and enough money to fix the soffits. Six more books since. A 5-time Pushcart nominee, his...
M.A. Guglielmo’s novels, Soul to Seal and Price to Pay, are light-hearted, fun reads which should appeal to older YA readers. The story begins in Summoned (#1 in the series) in which Daniel Goldstein, a Jewish gaming designer, is told by his grandmother’s ghost to...
Christina Consolino is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in multiple online and print outlets. Her debut novel, Rewrite the Stars, was named one of ten finalists for the Ohio Writers’ Association Great Novel Contest 2020, and she is the co-author of Historic...
Though I was hesitant to read a book about Apaches written by a white man, I must admit that Conrad’s The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival is a fascinating and erudite book. Through his research into archives in the United States, Spain,...
Shawn Keller Cooper graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in administration of criminal justice and political science. Prior to her concentration on creative writing, she was a journalist, editorial photographer, newspaper editor,...
M.E. is currently a full-time librarian who started out in retail merchandising. Her first job was as an assistant buyer at Lord & Taylor, where her glamour position involved office space in the basement of the Fifth Avenue store. After twelve years of mergers,...
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