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,...
As a physician, I was sucked right into this book because of the medical accuracy (the author is a physician herself), the strong female protagonist, and the end-of-life issues. Anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey realizes that elderly patients are dying at home days...
I'm happy to introduce author M.A. Guglielmo as I interview her via email. M.A. is a neurosurgeon, mother of two awesome daughters, and a life-long fan of speculative fiction. Her Italian grandmother may or may not have been able to cast the evil eye on difficult...
As a writer, I’ve done some research on the American Gilded Age and the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 (the World’s Fair). Wisseman does an outstanding job blending exemplary research into a very dark alternate history fantasy, even...
Today I have the privilege of talking to Annette Nauraine about her new book, Kissing the Kavalier, and her writing life. Annette is a wife, recovering opera singer, mom of two, Doodle mom, lover of music, books, opera, and dogs. She spends her time trying to keep...
A Lullaby in the Desert, though fiction, is a stark book that conveys the horror of real events occurring in certain parts of the Middle East. Azar goes a wonderful job setting the scene of bombed out skeletons of buildings, the tension of getting through life on a...
Today I have the honor of speaking with Margaret Ann Spence. Like me, she writes about women, the choices they make, and what happens next. She’s found that writing fiction, she finds the truth of family ties, family lies. Her debut novel, Lipstick on the Strawberry,...
This is a World War II story about a young girl, Magda, who lives on a farm with her parents and brothers in Czechoslovakia. Born with a large birthmark on her cheek, she’s been teased mercilessly her entire life, eroding her self confidence. During World War II, a...
Sarahlyn Bruck joins me today to talk about her new release, Daytime Drama. Her debut novel, Designer You, won the 2019 Indie Star Book Award and was included on the 2018 "35 Over 35" list. Sarahlyn grew up in the Bay Area and spent a great deal of time in Southern...
I was fortunate to have read an early version of Olympus, Texas and have eagerly anticipated its final version since. Author Stacey Swann populates her novel with characters loosely based on Greek gods but with a Texas twang. Olympus, Texas is an insightful look at...
Arsenic and Adobo is the first in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery Series. It is a cute cozy mystery with an ever-increasing body count. It stars Lila Macapagal who leaves the big city to return home to Shady Palms to help out at her failing family restaurant. The...
Today, Gina Troisi joins me today to fill us in on her new memoir, The Angle of Flickering Light (Vine Leaves Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Fourth Genre, The Gettysburg Review, Fugue, Under the Sun,...
I must admit I read this in one sitting, pulled along by the mysteries that were slowly unveiled. This is a modern gothic novel—which doesn’t read like a debut novel—with elements of the The Stepford Wives, a satirical thriller written in the early 1970s by Ira Levin...
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