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...
Kathleen M. Basi joins me today for a chat about her debut novel, A Song for the Road. She is the quintessential jack-of-all trades writer: musical composer and songwriter, feature writer, essayist, nonfiction author, and of course, storyteller. Basi spent her...
Letters Across the Sea is an account of Canadian history from the Great Depression until shortly after the end of World War II. Molly Ryan, a lass with an Irish background, has loved Max Dreyfus, a Jewish boy, since childhood. During the 1933 Christie Pits Riot in...
Author of an astounding forty-two romance novels, Emily Mims is with me today to talk about her new book, Cameron Unscripted, part of her Durango Street Theater series. Emily has combined her writing career with a career in public education until leaving the classroom...
In The Angle of Flickering Light, Gina Troisi’s lawyer father is a serial philanderer. Rather than being secretive about his affairs, he tells his two children, five-year-old Gina and her sister, about these indiscretions before he abandons them to marry his...
Today I have author Tammy Euliano joining me to talk about her new book, Fatal Intent. Tammy is a physician and, as a physician myself, I really loved the medical accuracy in her work. Greetings, Tammy. SS: Can you share a bit about your background? TE: I grew up in...
Daytime Drama is Sarahlyn Bruck’s second novel. In it, Callipe Hart, who’s been an actress since her teens, sees her world crumble when the network cancels her long-running daytime soap opera. She wonders if she’s too old to continue in television, but—with no other...
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...
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