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BOOK REVIEW: First Course by Jenn Bouchard

Janie Whitman, the protagonist in First Course, undergoes a life-changing twenty-four hours. First, she loses her job in Chicago and the boyfriend/boss there breaks up with her. Then, hard on those happenings, her parents die in a plane crash, and her sister, Alyssa,...

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A Halloween story: Morrigan

  Morrigan © Suanne Schafer A whistled song disturbs my sleep. Just outside the churchyard, I lie, warm and drowsy, buried within the earth, roofed by a grove of dark pines whose fallen needles and verdant mosses quilt my bed. Loath to leave a lovely pleasure, I...

New Book Trailer! Hunting the Devil

In case you missed it in my newsletter and here on the front and book pages of my website, here's the new goosebump-inducing book trailer for Hunting the Devil. I hope you love it as much as I do! 😈📚🎬

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One grand prize winner will receive a signed paperback copy of A Different Kind of Fire, a handmade beaded velvet bookmark, and a Hunting the Devil book bag. Ends at Midnight/CT on September 5th Good luck and have fun! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Enter My First Springtime Giveaway

More daylight = more time to read, so it felt like the perfect occasion for a new bookish giveaway! 🌞📚One lucky winner will receive an eBook copy of A Different Kind of Fire, and a $10 Amazon gift card. This one ends a week from today, so get in while you can. Click...
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Interview: Gary Corbin, author of Woman of Valor

Interview: Gary Corbin, author of Woman of Valor

Gary Corbin, a writer, editor, playwright, and actor lives in Camas, Washington, a suburb of Portland, Oregon. His most recent novel, A Woman of Valor, released in 2019 to critical acclaim. Lying in Judgment, his Amazon.com, a best-selling legal thriller, was released...

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Book Review: Wild Life by Keena Roberts

Book Review: Wild Life by Keena Roberts

Keena Roberts, in this delightful coming-of-age memoir, describes a life divided. Her parents, both primatologists, are on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and divide their time between field research and teaching. Where they go, they take their two...

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Interview: June Faver, author of the Dark Horse Cowboys series

Interview: June Faver, author of the Dark Horse Cowboys series

Author June Favor is based just outside of San Antonio. She's meeting with me today to talk about her many books. June writes steamy contemporary romance and romantic thrillers/mystery/suspense. She loves to kill people ... on virtual paper, that is. She is a foodie...

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Interview: author Julie Zuckerman

Interview: author Julie Zuckerman

Julie Zuckerman, author of The Book of Jeremiah, a debut novel-in-stories, joins me today. The Book of Jeremiah was released by Press 53 in May 2019. Julie's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Salt Hill, The SFWP Quarterly, The Coil,...

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Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen

Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen

As in his debut novel, Here and Now and Then, Mike Chen brings a refreshing new emotionalism to science fiction with his latest work, A Beginning at the End. This is a refreshing take on post-apocalyptic sci-fi. A flu pandemic devastates the world population—and takes...

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Book Review: Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

Book Review: Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

Everything Here Is Beautiful is Mira T. Lee’s debut novel, and a very sophisticated one it is. In the back of her book, there’s an interview with her in which she describes how she didn’t want to write about mental illness per se, but about relationships and how they...

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Cozy Winter Reading Giveaway

Cozy Winter Reading Giveaway

Happy New Year, Everyone! 🤩🌟💃 In case you missed the announcement in my newsletter prior to the holiday break, I've got a new giveaway going on! The grand prize is a signed copy of A Different Kind of Fire or Hunting the Devil (winner's choice), and a soft, cozy,...

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Book Review: Past This Point by Nicole Mabry

Book Review: Past This Point by Nicole Mabry

I read this book because I’d heard that it was apocalyptic fiction from a woman’s point of view, which seems to be relatively rare. I enjoyed it thoroughly. As a physician, I’ve been trained to anticipate influenza epidemics and pandemics. The medical aspects were...

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Interview: Bernie Brown, author of I Never Told You

Interview: Bernie Brown, author of I Never Told You

Author Bernie Brown is here today to talk about her new release, I Never Told You. It was released by Moonshine Cove Publishing on October 1, 2019. Bernie is an Iowa farm girl transplanted to Raleigh, North Carolina. Her Iowa childhood, her travels in the States and...

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Book Review: Double-Crossing the Bridge by Sarah J. Sover

Book Review: Double-Crossing the Bridge by Sarah J. Sover

If you ever wanted a story about the Underworld, filled with trolls and other monsters, Double-Crossing the Bridge is for you. Sarah J. Sover's debut successfully blends an Ocean’s Eleven-type heist with sheer fantasy with high Monty-Python-quality wildly-hysterical...

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Interview: Drema Drudge, author of Victorine

Interview: Drema Drudge, author of Victorine

Author Drema Drudge joins me today to talk about her debut novel, Victorine, and her life as an author. In her bio, she says she suffers from Stendhal's syndrome, a psychosomatic condition involving rapid heartbeat, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations,...

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Book Review: Hamartia by Raquel Rich

Book Review: Hamartia by Raquel Rich

Hamartia successfully blends time travel with reincarnation with the interesting concept that souls can be harvested. In the futuristic city of Hamartia, Grace Dartmouth learns that her nine-year-old son is afflicted with metagenesis, a disease in which a human’s soul...

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Interview: Marco Rafalà, author of How Fires End

Interview: Marco Rafalà, author of How Fires End

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Marco Rafalà about his debut novel, How Fires End. He is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist, musician, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and...

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Book Review: All That’s Bright and Gone by Eliza Vellums

Book Review: All That’s Bright and Gone by Eliza Vellums

All That's Bright and Gone by Eliza  Nellums was released on December 10, 2019. This book deals with love, secrets, family, mental illness, and the potential of inheriting mental illness. Six-year-old Aoife navigates life agains the backdrop of major family...

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Book Review: Long Island Noir

Book Review: Long Island Noir

Akashic Books, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, is dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors ignored by the mainstream. Akashic has an excellent reputation and when they release a new book, the quality is guaranteed...

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Interview: Emily Mims

Joining me today is Emily Mims, a romance author I met at a San Antonio Romance Authors chapter meeting several years ago. Author of thirty four romance novels, Emily Mims combined her writing career with a career in public education until leaving the classroom to...

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Book Review: Every Time He Dies by Tara East

Book Review: Every Time He Dies by Tara East

The cover of this book alone would prompt me to read it. As a Texas gal who lives in a city where El Día de los Muertos is celebrated, the skeleton with its ties to Sugar Skulls drew me in. This book is about grief, hauntings, and identity.  The protaognist, Daphne...

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Interview: Nicole Mabry, author of Past This Point

Interview: Nicole Mabry, author of Past This Point

The author of Past This Point, Nicole Mabry, joins me to talk about her novel, released by Red Adept Publishing on September 3, 2019. Nicole spends her days at NBCUniversal as the Senior Manager of Photography Post Production. Her nights are reserved for writing...

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