Tracy Walder’s The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists is her memoir of her years as a counterterrorism officer in the CIA and a special agent in the FBI in the post-911 world. She makes it...
SS: Joining me in a virtual Covid-proof interview is BARBARA LINN PROBST, a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She lives on an historic dirt road in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her debut novel Queen of the Owls will be released today, April 7, 2020. It is the...
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Per the author, Anne de Courcy, this book (Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944) isn't intended to be a definitive biography of Coco Chanel. It is more of a biography of a place—the French Riviera—before and during the Second...
I was captivated by Mark Guerin's You Can See More From Up Here from the first sentence. The relationships in reporter Walker McGuire’s life are gradually amped up in an engaging way as is the suspense. The reader has ample opportunity to bond with each character as...
Jennifer J. Chow joins me today to talk about her new novel. Mimi Lee Gets a Clue was released by Berkley on March 10, 2020 and is the first in the new Sassy Cat mystery series. Her other Asian-American novels include Dragonfly Dreams, The 228 Legacy, and the Winston...
This is author Elena Mikalsen’s third book, and with each her prose has tightened. Here, she draws upon her experience as a psychologist. Her protagonist, college student Emma, has been raped, beaten, and left for dead by a football player. She is forced from school...
The Disharmony of Silence, released March 5, 2020 by Black Rose Writing, authored by Linda Rosen shows how secrets affect families through future generations. She tells the dual stories of Lena and Carolyn through alternating time lines separated by eighty-plus years....
Linda Rosen, a writer and fitness professional, meets with me today to discuss her new book, The Disharmony of Silence, recently published by Black Rose Writing. She and her husband split their time between New Jersey and Florida. Linda was a contributor to Women in...
Today, award-winning author Melonie Johnson—aka #thewritinglush—joins me to talk about her romances. She loves dark coffee, cheap wine, and expensive beer. And margaritas. And mimosas. And mules. Basically any cocktail that starts with the letter M. She met her future...
Judy Mollen Walters meets with me today. She's the author of eight women's fiction novels. She has also written dozens of essays for such sites such as WaPo, HuffPo, theweek, SheKnows, and many others. In her latest novel, The Lies You Want to Hear, she writes about...
Lily King’s Writers & Lovers is an extraordinary novel. As a writer I appreciated King’s efforts at capturing the life of a writer; they seem genuine as she describes the difficulty of putting words on a page in a meaningful way. This is King’s fifth novel and...
Though The Sinful Scot is the third book in Maddison Michaels’s Saints and Scoundrels series, it can be read as a standalone novel. Connie is raised to marry a man chosen by her parents, one most likely to elevate the family status. Unfortunately, the duke they...
Preslaysa Williams is an award-winning author who writes contemporary romance and women’s fiction with an Afro-Filipina twist. Proud of her heritage, she loves sharing her culture with her readers. She is currently earning her second graduate degree, a MFA in Writing...
The Blood-Dimmed Tide is the second in Michael R. Johnston’s Remembrance War space opera series. It would have been helpful to have read the first (The Widening Gyre), but Johnston provides enough backstory during The Blood-Dimmed Tide that reading the first isn’t...
ICYMI in my newsletter on Valentine's Day, I'm giving away a decadent, wanderlust-y, bookish prize package! In case you weren't aware, there is romance to be read in my latest novel, HUNTING THE DEVIL. After all that Jess has gone through in Africa, she sets her...
Today, I'm thrilled to have Damyanti Biswas visit with me. She lives in Singapore (one of my favorite cities in the world) and supports Delhi's underprivileged women and children, volunteering with organizations who work for this cause. Her short stories have been...
Echoed in My Bones deals with interracial adoption. I chose to read it as I adopted a biracial child years ago and am interested in the topic. I also read the National Geographic “Black and White” issue (April 2018) with a photograph of twins, one black and one white,...
Author Melissa Woods joins me today to talk about writing. She's a mother of six and an author of literary fiction and suspense. Her writing has appeared in Memoir Magazine and The Coffin Bell Journal, and she was awarded the Stephen R. Kustra Scholarship for creative...
Poison is a thriller set in primarily in the Emergency Room where Dr. Emma Steele works. People who visit the ER are returning as codes or dropping dead within a few days of their initial ER visit. But only her most vile patients are dying: the child abusers, wife...
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