Diane Zinna joins me virtually today. She received her MFA from the University of Florida and went on to teach creative writing for ten years. She was formerly the executive co-director at AWP, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, which hosts the largest...
Uncovered by Leah Lax is her memoir of leaving her Hasidic Jewish community and becoming herself. It might be read in conjunction with Concealed by Esther Amini, also a memoir of leaving a fundamental Jewish family and becoming an integrated person. Lax, a Texan with...
Stephanie (Van Why) Funk joins me today. She was born in Connecticut and learned her love of the written word early, thanks in no small part to having a mom who read to her every night at bedtime. Funk holds a BA from UMASS for Creative and Journalistic Writing....
A Matter Of Chance, a domestic thriller, is Julie Maloney’s debut novel. Maddy Stewart, a single mom is on vacation at the Jersey shore with her eight-year-old daughter, Vinni. While on the beach with her daughter, she sees her elderly neighbors, and the husband...
Sara LaFontain, author of the Whispering Pines Island series, joins me today in a socially-distanced interview. Sara writes Women’s Fiction love stories. Her books feature unreliable narrators, flawed characters, and people finally finding happiness. Prior to...
Friends & Other Liars is Kaela Coble’s debut novel, and it’s an ambitious one, told in multiple points of view and past/present timelines. In it, five friends (Ruby, Ally, Danny, Murphy and Emmett) have known each other since grade school in Chatwick, a small...
Joining me today in a Covid-safe interview, is author Fred Ruark. He has lived in Maryland all his life and worked for utilities for over forty years, doing everything from splicing cable for the phone company, to training managers in a nuclear power plant. He married...
Love, Art, and Other Obstacles, released May 18, 2020 by Wild Rose Press, is the third in the Book Nirvana romance series. I have read the second, Runaway Love Story and enjoyed it as well, so I'll definitely have to backtrack and read the first. The series is...
Award-winning mystery and children’s book author, Saralyn Richard strives to make the world a better place, one book at a time. Her books, Naughty Nana, Murder in the One Percent, and A Palette for Love and Murder, have delighted children and adults alike. A member of...
Little Voices is Vanessa Lillie’s debut novel. It’s a murder mystery, political thriller, and psychological suspense wrapped into one. Then throw in a blazingly intense family drama of a new mother suffering from postpartum psychosis. Devon, the protagonist, is a...
Today's interviewee is author Ann Simas. She writes mystery-thriller-suspense novels with a love story and paranormal or supernatural elements. She lives in Oregon but, having grown up in the Rocky Mountains, is a Colorado girl at heart. An avid reader since...
You Beneath Your Skin is Damyanti Biswas’s debut novel, and it’s a prime example of a murder mystery with plenty of twists and turns in a complex plot. Set in a smoggy New Delhi winter, the book brought to mind my travels through that part of the world—cities teeming...
Rashi Rohatgi joins me today in a socially-distanced interview. She's the author of Where the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow. An Indian-American Pennsylvania native who lives in Arctic Norway, her short fiction and poetry have appeared in A-Minor Magazine, The Misty Review,...
Were We Awake was released November 20, 2019 by Fomite Press. I'd enjoyed L. M. Brown's first collection of short stories (Treading the Uneven Ground) so much I was compelled to read her second collection of stories. The cover of Were We Awake brings to mind the...
Everyone has a history and a story. Today, I'm distance-talking with Jae Hodges about her new book, The Rose and the Whip. She uses the most alluring stories from the chronicles of her own ancestry to create timeless tales of everyday people making history. On her...
How Fires End is Marco Rafalà’s debut novel, and a stunning one it is, all about families and secrets and trauma. Told in reverse chronological order, How Fires End begins with the story of David, the son of a Sicilian immigrant in Middletown, CT. David’s mother died...
Victoria Thompson is the USA Today bestselling author of the Edgar® and Agatha Award nominated Gaslight Mystery Series and the Sue Grafton Memorial Award finalist Counterfeit Lady Series. She has published 26 mysteries. She currently teaches in the Master’s program...
Derailed is author Mary Keliikoa’s debut novel. Kelly Pruitt, a woman in her early thirties, has taken over her late father’s private detective agency. She's never lost the "baby fat" she gained when pregnant with her daughter eight years ago and is physically...
Today I'm chatting with Lisa Braxton in a socially-distanced web interview. Lisa is an essayist, short story writer, and author of the debut novel, The Talking Drum. She is also a “debutante,” one of five debut novelists chosen for the Debutante Ball, a group blog for...
Written in 2015 and independently published in 2016, Don’t Speak (Jade Harrington series, book # 1) reflects the political scene in America at that time. This thriller has a female, Whitney Fairchild, running for president against a conservative male incumbent whose...
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