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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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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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Interview: Drew Minh, author of Neon Empire

Interview: Drew Minh, author of Neon Empire

Drew Minh joins me today to talk about his new book, Neon Empire. He is a former digital advertising executive in Los Angeles, with firsthand knowledge of our current social media revolution. He’s lived in Barcelona and Paris, where he worked as a freelance writer,...

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Book Review: Come and Get Me by August Norman

Book Review: Come and Get Me by August Norman

Caitlin Bergman, an award winning journalist, returns to the university to receive an honorary degree. She missed getting it twenty years earlier because she bailed out of college weeks before earning her degree. In her thank-you address, she spontaneously reveals...

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An update of my 2013 personal essay, “Raising an Oreo”

An update of my 2013 personal essay, “Raising an Oreo”

To mark the September 15th publication of my new novel, Hunting the Devil, I've updated a personal essay I wrote several years ago. It was originally published in Brain, Child Magazine under the title "Raising My Black Son." My efforts to raise a Black child, combined...

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Interview: Liv Arnold, author of Law & Disorder

Interview: Liv Arnold, author of Law & Disorder

Liv Arnold is meeting with me today to discuss her debut novel, Law & Disorder. Liv has worked as a copywriter for several global companies and now runs her own freelance business. She grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and lives with her husband and their spoiled...

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Book Review: The DNA of You and Me by Andrea Rothman

Book Review: The DNA of You and Me by Andrea Rothman

The DNA of You and Me is Andrea Rothman’s debut novel. It looks at what happens when romantic love conflicts with a woman’s chosen career. Emily, the main character, is a rational, somewhat cold, introverted-to-a-fault scientist. She feels she was born to be alone and...

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Interview: M.A. Guglielmo, Author of Summoned

Interview: M.A. Guglielmo, Author of Summoned

Join me in welcoming M.A. Guglielmo, author of the fantasy novel, Summoned, which will be released by Tule Publishing Group on  9/24/19. She is a neurosurgeon, mother of two awesome daughters, and a life-long fan of speculative fiction. Her Italian grandmother may or...

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Enter My Summer-Into-Fall Book Lovers Giveaway!

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

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Book Review: The Winter Sister by Megan Collins

Book Review: The Winter Sister by Megan Collins

The Winter Sister is a dark mystery/thriller. Author Megan Collins accurately captures the effects of grief on a family, particularly that of Sylvie, a teenager whose old sister, Persephone, is murdered. Fifteen years later, the murder remains unsolved, and the...

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Book Review: Because You’re Mine by Rea Frey

Book Review: Because You’re Mine by Rea Frey

I read Because You're Mine, Rea Frey's second novel, released on August 6, 2019 by St. Martin's Griffin, because I enjoyed her debut novel, Not Her Daughter. Because You're Mine is told from three points of view (Lee, the mother of Mason, a spectrum child; Noah,...

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Book Review: Treading the Uneven Road by L.M. Brown

Book Review: Treading the Uneven Road by L.M. Brown

Set in the late 20th century Ireland, Treading The Uneven Road is a collection of nine inter-related short stories about a fictional Irish town located between on the road from Dublin to Sligo. The highway bypassed the village, leaving its residents and their...

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Interview: Noelle Salazar, author of THE FLIGHT GIRLS

Interview: Noelle Salazar, author of THE FLIGHT GIRLS

Noelle Salazar joins me today to talk about her debut novel, The Flight Girls. SS: Have you always been driven to write? Or did you begin writing in response to a particular stimulus? NS: I’ve always loved story. In any form. Entertain me. Make me laugh. Cry. Get...

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Book Review: The Marriage Clock by Zara Raheem

Book Review: The Marriage Clock by Zara Raheem

I chose to read The Marriage Clock because I’m always interested in reading own voices writing  about their culture. About this time last year I read a book the premise of which was finding a man through an on-line dating website. Though that book was comical, at the...

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Interview: Carol Potenza, author of Hearts of the Missing

Interview: Carol Potenza, author of Hearts of the Missing

Today I have the privilege of speaking with Carol Potenza. She's written a mystery,  Hearts of the Missing, that carries on the grand tradition of Western mysteries of such authors as Tony Hillerman and his daughter, Anne Hillerman. Appropriately, Hearts of the...

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Book Review: Angel in the Fog by TJ Turner

Book Review: Angel in the Fog by TJ Turner

Turner's historical fiction novel, Angel in the Fog, is the third in his alternate history series in which Lincoln was not assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. I enjoyed the historical content, the suspense, and the action. Having read the first two in the series...

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Interview: Karen Hugg, author of The Forgetting Flower

Interview: Karen Hugg, author of The Forgetting Flower

Today, Karen Hugg joins me for an interview. I loved her new book, The Forgetting Flower, that seamlessly joins elements of thrillers/mysteries and botany. Karen writes literary mysteries and thrillers inspired by plants. Her stories are set in worlds where plants,...

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Book Review: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

Book Review: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

I was intrigued by the book cover and the blurb about The Bookish Life of Nina Hill released by Berkley on July 9, 2019. Nina is an introvert who suffers from situational anxiety. To compensate, she tends to stick to a well-documented routine. She has good friends and...

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