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BOOK REVIEW: First Course by Jenn Bouchard

Janie Whitman, the protagonist in First Course, undergoes a life-changing twenty-four hours. First, she loses her job in Chicago and the boyfriend/boss there breaks up with her. Then, hard on those happenings, her parents die in a plane crash, and her sister, Alyssa,...

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One lucky participant will win: A hand-made cozy scarf A signed copy of A DIFFERENT KIND OF FIRE Bookish print swag Click here to enter, or use the widget below. No purchase necessary. The more ways you enter, the more your chances of winning. Good luck and have fun!...

A Halloween story: Morrigan

  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...

New Book Trailer! Hunting the Devil

In case you missed it in my newsletter and here on the front and book pages of my website, here's the new goosebump-inducing book trailer for Hunting the Devil. I hope you love it as much as I do! 😈📚🎬

Enter My Summer-Into-Fall Book Lovers Giveaway!

One grand prize winner will receive a signed paperback copy of A Different Kind of Fire, a handmade beaded velvet bookmark, and a Hunting the Devil book bag. Ends at Midnight/CT on September 5th Good luck and have fun! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Enter My First Springtime Giveaway

More daylight = more time to read, so it felt like the perfect occasion for a new bookish giveaway! 🌞📚One lucky winner will receive an eBook copy of A Different Kind of Fire, and a $10 Amazon gift card. This one ends a week from today, so get in while you can. Click...
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Book Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King

Book Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King

Lily King’s Writers & Lovers is an extraordinary novel. As a writer I appreciated King’s efforts at capturing the life of a writer; they seem genuine as she describes the difficulty of putting words on a page in a meaningful way. This is King’s fifth novel and...

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Book Review: The Sinful Scot

Book Review: The Sinful Scot

Though The Sinful Scot is the third book in Maddison Michaels’s Saints and Scoundrels series, it can be read as a standalone novel.  Connie is raised to marry a man chosen by her parents, one most likely to elevate the family status. Unfortunately, the duke they...

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Book Review: The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Michael R. Johnston

Book Review: The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Michael R. Johnston

The Blood-Dimmed Tide is the second in Michael R. Johnston’s Remembrance War space opera series. It would have been helpful to have read the first (The Widening Gyre), but Johnston provides enough backstory during The Blood-Dimmed Tide that reading the first isn’t...

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Enter My Dreaming of Paris (Books & Chocolate) Giveaway!

Enter My Dreaming of Paris (Books & Chocolate) Giveaway!

ICYMI in my newsletter on Valentine's Day, I'm giving away a decadent, wanderlust-y, bookish prize package! In case you weren't aware, there is romance to be read in my latest novel, HUNTING THE DEVIL. After all that Jess has gone through in Africa, she sets her...

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Interview: Damyanti Biswas, author of You Beneath Your Skin

Interview: Damyanti Biswas, author of You Beneath Your Skin

Today, I'm thrilled to have Damyanti Biswas visit with me. She lives in Singapore (one of my favorite cities in the world) and supports Delhi's underprivileged women and children, volunteering with organizations who work for this cause. Her short stories have been...

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Book Review: Echoed in My Bones by Lisa A. Sturm

Book Review: Echoed in My Bones by Lisa A. Sturm

Echoed in My Bones deals with interracial adoption. I chose to read it as I adopted a biracial child years ago and am interested in the topic. I also read the National Geographic “Black and White” issue (April 2018) with a photograph of twins, one black and one white,...

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Interview: Author Melissa Woods

Interview: Author Melissa Woods

Author Melissa Woods joins me today to talk about writing. She's a mother of six and an author of literary fiction and suspense. Her writing has appeared in Memoir Magazine and The Coffin Bell Journal, and she was awarded the Stephen R. Kustra Scholarship for creative...

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Book Review: Poison by Rada Jones, MD

Book Review: Poison by Rada Jones, MD

Poison is a thriller set in primarily in the Emergency Room where Dr. Emma Steele works. People who visit the ER are returning as codes or dropping dead within a few days of their initial ER visit. But only her most vile patients are dying: the child abusers, wife...

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Interview: Gary Corbin, author of Woman of Valor

Interview: Gary Corbin, author of Woman of Valor

Gary Corbin, a writer, editor, playwright, and actor lives in Camas, Washington, a suburb of Portland, Oregon. His most recent novel, A Woman of Valor, released in 2019 to critical acclaim. Lying in Judgment, his Amazon.com, a best-selling legal thriller, was released...

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Book Review: Wild Life by Keena Roberts

Book Review: Wild Life by Keena Roberts

Keena Roberts, in this delightful coming-of-age memoir, describes a life divided. Her parents, both primatologists, are on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and divide their time between field research and teaching. Where they go, they take their two...

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Interview: June Faver, author of the Dark Horse Cowboys series

Interview: June Faver, author of the Dark Horse Cowboys series

Author June Favor is based just outside of San Antonio. She's meeting with me today to talk about her many books. June writes steamy contemporary romance and romantic thrillers/mystery/suspense. She loves to kill people ... on virtual paper, that is. She is a foodie...

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Interview: author Julie Zuckerman

Interview: author Julie Zuckerman

Julie Zuckerman, author of The Book of Jeremiah, a debut novel-in-stories, joins me today. The Book of Jeremiah was released by Press 53 in May 2019. Julie's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Salt Hill, The SFWP Quarterly, The Coil,...

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Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen

Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen

As in his debut novel, Here and Now and Then, Mike Chen brings a refreshing new emotionalism to science fiction with his latest work, A Beginning at the End. This is a refreshing take on post-apocalyptic sci-fi. A flu pandemic devastates the world population—and takes...

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Book Review: Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

Book Review: Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

Everything Here Is Beautiful is Mira T. Lee’s debut novel, and a very sophisticated one it is. In the back of her book, there’s an interview with her in which she describes how she didn’t want to write about mental illness per se, but about relationships and how they...

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Cozy Winter Reading Giveaway

Cozy Winter Reading Giveaway

Happy New Year, Everyone! 🤩🌟💃 In case you missed the announcement in my newsletter prior to the holiday break, I've got a new giveaway going on! The grand prize is a signed copy of A Different Kind of Fire or Hunting the Devil (winner's choice), and a soft, cozy,...

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Book Review: Past This Point by Nicole Mabry

Book Review: Past This Point by Nicole Mabry

I read this book because I’d heard that it was apocalyptic fiction from a woman’s point of view, which seems to be relatively rare. I enjoyed it thoroughly. As a physician, I’ve been trained to anticipate influenza epidemics and pandemics. The medical aspects were...

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Interview: Bernie Brown, author of I Never Told You

Interview: Bernie Brown, author of I Never Told You

Author Bernie Brown is here today to talk about her new release, I Never Told You. It was released by Moonshine Cove Publishing on October 1, 2019. Bernie is an Iowa farm girl transplanted to Raleigh, North Carolina. Her Iowa childhood, her travels in the States and...

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