Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery is a look at the therapeutic psychological practice of Catherine Gildiner, a fascinating memoir of how she dealt with five clients, all so severely emotionally damaged that they had to...
Tonya Mitchell joins me today for an interview about what led to her novel, A Feigned Madness. Since reading Jane Eyre in high school, Tonya has been drawn to dark stories, particularly of the Gothic variety. Her influences include Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and...
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S. M. Goodwin pulled me into Absence of Mercy immediately with her descriptions of Jasper Lightner, a Crimean War hero with post-traumatic stress syndrome and a traumatic brain injury. The second son of a duke, Jasper inherits enough money to become independent of his...
My guest today is Sherri Leimkuhler, author of What's Left Untold, a book I can't say too much about without divulging its premise and causing major spoilers. Sherri has written professionally for more than twenty years but is a Jill of many trades, with experience in...
Chip Jones is a Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist who brings to life an amazing story. A succinct synopsis is drawn straight from the subtitle of his book: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South. To give readers some background into...
DJ Lee grew up in Seattle hearing the word “wilderness” but not knowing what it meant. Only when she was in her early forties did she learn about her family’s mysterious history with one of the largest and most remote landscapes in the contiguous US, the...
Nowhere Near Goodbye, released August 4, 2020 by Red Adept, is Barbara Conrey’s debut novel. It delves deeply into the age-old challenge women face: career versus family. I read this book because it looks at some of the same choices I, as a physician, had to make....
I'm chatting today with Libby McNamee, an author, speaker, lawyer, and veteran. When a descendant told her of Susanna Bolling's heroism during the Revolutionary War, Libby was captivated. Susanna’s Midnight Ride: The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War is her first...
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...
For years, Caitlin Bergman has told everyone that her mother is dead—it's a simpler explanation than the truth that, after giving Caitlin up for adoption, the woman dropped out of sight. When Caitlin receives word from a police department in Oregon that her mother has...
Today I'm thrilled to welcome Karri L. Moser, the author of The Weathering of Sea Glass. Karri L. Moser is a fiction and freelance writer. She has written for magazines, newspapers, the U.S. Army, as well as marketing firms and other organizations. Karri has also...
In her debut novel, In the Canyons of Shadow and Light, author Emily Donoho transports the reader into the psyche of a jaded middle-aged Manhattan police detective. Though the book frequently references a popular police procedural television program, Law & Order,...
I have the privilege of chatting from a social distance with Lainey Cameron. She's an author of women's fiction and a recovering tech industry executive. Her award-winning novel, The Exit Strategy, an Amazon #1 best seller, was inspired by a decade of being the only...
The author of The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir, Sara Seager, is a pioneering astrophysicist and a professor at MIT. She also led NASA’s Probe Study team for the Starshade project and earned a MacArthur grant. Since childhood she’s loved astronomy and the...
Lauren Ho joins me today in a socially-distanced interview. She is a reformed legal counsel who writes funny stories. Hailing from Malaysia, she lived in the United Kingdom, France and Luxembourg before moving with her family to Singapore, where she is ostensibly...
After Elias is one of the most beautifully-written books I’ve read recently. It’s also a genre-breaker, gracefully combining a fractured romance with elements of a thriller and psychological drama. One week before their wedding, Coen Caraway loses Elias Santos, the...
The Song of Achilles retells the story of Achilles from the point of view of his lover, Patroclus. With all the verve of Mary Renault, Miller gives new life to The Iliad as well as developing a sweet, tender love story between the two men. As a child, I read the Greek...
Today I'm happy to introduce author and historian Deb Hunter. She writes as Hunter S. Jones. She is passionate about the history of romance, science and music, a.k.a. sex, drugs and rock & roll. She has been involved in academic projects at Harvard University, The...
After Kilimanjaro is Gayle Woodson’s debut novel, and one I thoroughly enjoyed reading. Her descriptions of the wilds of the Serengeti and the cities of Arusha and Dar Es Salaam are so accurate I sensed we’d stood in one another’s footsteps, particularly in parts of...
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