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...
Author Rosey Lee joins me today in a virtual, Covid-19 safe interview. She writes uplifting fiction stories about family and friendship. A native of the Westbank of New Orleans, Louisiana, Rosey is a fan of good foods and good times. As a child, she dreamed of a...
Pride of Eden, released March 17, 2020 by St. Martin's Press, is a gritty book inhabited by even-grittier characters. Author Taylor Brown pulls together a diverse cast of mostly-unlikable characters. Anse Caulfield is a Vietnam vet and retired racehorse jockey. He is...
Two girls with totally opposite personalities, Anna and Lia, find an unlikely friendship in high school, one that survives even their interest in the same boys. They have a falling out in college—and Lia walks out of Anna’s life without further word. That event...
Stephen Cox and I are meeting in a virtual, therefore social-distance-safe interview. He was born in America of British parents, spent nearly his entire childhood in Bristol in the West of England, and now lives in London with his partner. His son has left home and...
Remaining Aileen is author Autumn Lindsey’s debut novel. Lindsey provides new nuances to vampire lore as she twists women’s fiction and vampire paranormal to produce a unique blend that is at times light-hearted and at others vampire-dark. It's a Twilight meets soccer...
Mary Keliikoa spent the first eighteen years of her adult life working around lawyers. Combining her love of all things legal and books, she's created a twisting mystery where justice prevails. She had a short story published in Woman's World and is the author of the...
Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus is a dark yet beautiful, lyrical, and enchanting read. I read this prose/poetry novel in one sitting, then immediately flipped to the beginning. Though the horror was difficult to endure even the...
The good news is that Covid-19 isn't completely stopping human communication! Today I am meeting with Natasha Tynes, a Jordanian-American author and communications professional based in Washington, DC. Her debut novel They Called Me Wyatt was published in April by...
Barbara Linn Probst’s debut novel, Queen of the Owls, is stunning: gorgeous prose highlighting a book about creativity, seeing and being seen. As a former photographer and artist, this book has everything needed to intrigue me: Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Steiglitz,...
Samantha Heuwagen and I, in keeping with the pandemic's restrictions, are meeting virtually today. She is a bilingual marriage and family therapist and best-selling author based in Atlanta, GA. When not working with clients, she sparks discussion about mental health...
American Dirt has been mired in so much controversy, I almost didn't read it. In the end, though, curiosity pulled me in so I could make up my own mind. The #MeToo and the #OwnVoices movements have caused a fundamental shift in America and in American literature. As a...
Appropriate for the Covid-19 pandemic, Heather Frimmer and I are meeting virtually. She's a radiologist specializing in breast imaging. She uses her medical knowledge to create fictional windows into the world of medicine. In her debut novel, Bedside Manners...
If She had Stayed is Ms. Byington’s sophomore book and was such a joy to read I whizzed through it in one sitting. She successfully blends women’s fiction with time travel while fan-girling over scientist Nikola Tesla. Kaley Kline, a mid-thirties woman, having never...
I'm having a Corona-safe interview via the internet with Carolyn M. Walker today. She is a California native and lover of all things literary. An avid reader, she enjoys new and exciting reads. As an avid storyteller, her mission is to bring that same joy to her...
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