Victorine is Drema Drudge’s debut novel, and a delight it is. She's captured the spirit of Belle Époque France from the time of the American Civil War in the 1860s through the Siege of Paris by the Prussians in 1870-1871 and artist Manet’s death in 1883. Victorine...
Jody A. Forrester and I are both "women of a certain age." She was born and raised in Los Angeles during the uneasy Fifties and tumultuous Sixties; I was raised in conservative West Texas during that same time frame. She graduated from high school in 1969, when the...
Scorpionfish, released July 7, 2020 by Tin House Books, is a lovely novel about the a woman finding herself. Mira, a Greek-American academic returns to Athens to clean out the apartment of her recently-dead parents. While there, her long-term boyfriend breaks up with...
Today I have the pleasure of interviewing a new-to-me author, Peggy A. Wheeler. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in numerous magazines. Her poetry appears in small press magazines and women’s anthologies dating back to the early 1980s. She has a B.A. in English...
Bayou City Burning is the first in a series of father/daughter detective stories, the Harry and Dizzy Lark Books, by D.B. Borton. It’s set in Houston with an authentic sense of place complete with the stench of Texas oil refineries, arrow-straight stretches of...
Michael Cordell has been a writer for many years. After having had a play produced by several theatre companies in the Midwest, Cordell turned his attention to screenwriting. He sold three screenplays to Hollywood, one of which was produced starring Harvey Keitel and...
Until I Find You by Rea Frey was released on August 11 by St. Martin's Press. It is an emotional, poignant novel written in the points of view of Rebecca—a nearly-blind woman, a recent widow, and a new mother—and that of Crystal, a friend of Rebecca’s who lives...
Joining me today is Barbara Conrey, author of Nowhere Near Goodbye, released August 4, 2020 by Red Adept Publishing. She worked in the health care industry for many years before opting for an early retirement, which lasted all of three months. She then accepted a...
Megan Collins’s debut novel, The Winter Sister, was filled with gorgeous prose and a story that was spellbinding, atmospheric, and deeply touching. On August fourth, Atria Books released Collins's sophomore novel, Behind The Red Door. It doesn’t disappoint. Collins’s...
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...
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