Today, award-winning author Melonie Johnson—aka #thewritinglush—joins me to talk about her romances. She loves dark coffee, cheap wine, and expensive beer. And margaritas. And mimosas. And mules. Basically any cocktail that starts with the letter M. She met her future...
Judy Mollen Walters meets with me today. She's the author of eight women's fiction novels. She has also written dozens of essays for such sites such as WaPo, HuffPo, theweek, SheKnows, and many others. In her latest novel, The Lies You Want to Hear, she writes about...
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...
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...
Preslaysa Williams is an award-winning author who writes contemporary romance and women’s fiction with an Afro-Filipina twist. Proud of her heritage, she loves sharing her culture with her readers. She is currently earning her second graduate degree, a MFA in Writing...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
I'm fortunate to have author Maureen Joyce Connolly join me to talk about her new novel, Little Lovely Things, released by Sourcebooks Landmark on April 2, 2019. Welcome, Maureen. Let's get started. Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall) says that a Catholic upbringing is the only...
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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