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...
The Sound between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst is beautifully-written, engrossing, and emotional journey through a woman’s search for her own identify. Throughout the novel, Susannah’s choices have dramatic effects upon her family. Adopted at birth, the...
Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love is beautifully-written, engrossing, and emotional journey through a woman’s search for her own identity. Throughout the memoir, Ms. MacDonald’s choices have rippling effects on herself and her family. Adopted at birth,...
This is another book that has been lingering on my Kindle, and having now read it, I wonder why it took me so long. I would have read this book in one sitting, but my Kindle died at 92%. I raced to my back-up Kindle only to find I’d failed to recharge it. So I had to...
Amanda Skenandore joins me today. I haven't gotten the Covid vaccine yet, so I remain in semi-isolation. But I'd wear a mask if this was an in-person interview rather than a long-distance e-mail interview and I'm sure Amanda would, too. Amanda is the author of two...
Henry Hayden is a great unreliable, unlikeable character with just enough good within him to be a somewhat likable soul, yet he wreaks a swath of destruction in his wake, from childhood on. Currently he manifests himself as a well-known, prolific writer; but his wife...
Ginny Friedlander Fite, an award-winning journalist and writer, joins me today for a Covid-safe interview. She is the author of five previous novels, a humorous book on aging, three collections of poetry and a collection of short stories. Nominated for a Pushcart...
The Windsor Knot was an interesting set-up of a mystery, somewhat akin to an Agatha Christie. The switch is that the detective is the Queen of England. As a queen and a nonagenarian, she has limitations on what she can do, both in terms of protocol and her advanced...
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