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...
Tracy Walder’s The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists is her memoir of her years as a counterterrorism officer in the CIA and a special agent in the FBI in the post-911 world. She makes it...
SS: Joining me in a virtual Covid-proof interview is BARBARA LINN PROBST, a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She lives on an historic dirt road in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her debut novel Queen of the Owls will be released today, April 7, 2020. It is the...
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Per the author, Anne de Courcy, this book (Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944) isn't intended to be a definitive biography of Coco Chanel. It is more of a biography of a place—the French Riviera—before and during the Second...
I was captivated by Mark Guerin's You Can See More From Up Here from the first sentence. The relationships in reporter Walker McGuire’s life are gradually amped up in an engaging way as is the suspense. The reader has ample opportunity to bond with each character as...
Jennifer J. Chow joins me today to talk about her new novel. Mimi Lee Gets a Clue was released by Berkley on March 10, 2020 and is the first in the new Sassy Cat mystery series. Her other Asian-American novels include Dragonfly Dreams, The 228 Legacy, and the Winston...
This is author Elena Mikalsen’s third book, and with each her prose has tightened. Here, she draws upon her experience as a psychologist. Her protagonist, college student Emma, has been raped, beaten, and left for dead by a football player. She is forced from school...
The Disharmony of Silence, released March 5, 2020 by Black Rose Writing, authored by Linda Rosen shows how secrets affect families through future generations. She tells the dual stories of Lena and Carolyn through alternating time lines separated by eighty-plus years....
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