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...
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...
If you ever wanted a story about the Underworld, filled with trolls and other monsters, Double-Crossing the Bridge is for you. Sarah J. Sover's debut successfully blends an Ocean’s Eleven-type heist with sheer fantasy with high Monty-Python-quality wildly-hysterical...
Author Drema Drudge joins me today to talk about her debut novel, Victorine, and her life as an author. In her bio, she says she suffers from Stendhal's syndrome, a psychosomatic condition involving rapid heartbeat, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations,...
Hamartia successfully blends time travel with reincarnation with the interesting concept that souls can be harvested. In the futuristic city of Hamartia, Grace Dartmouth learns that her nine-year-old son is afflicted with metagenesis, a disease in which a human’s soul...
Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Marco Rafalà about his debut novel, How Fires End. He is a first-generation Sicilian American novelist, musician, and writer for award-winning tabletop role-playing games. He earned his MFA in Fiction from The New School and...
All That's Bright and Gone by Eliza Nellums was released on December 10, 2019. This book deals with love, secrets, family, mental illness, and the potential of inheriting mental illness. Six-year-old Aoife navigates life agains the backdrop of major family...
I'm pleased today to welcome author Mark Guerin. His debut novel, You Can See More From Up Here, was released on October 1. After reading your novel, Mark, I sense our pasts are similar. To prove me right, can you share a bit about your background? MG: I was an “Air...
Akashic Books, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, is dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors ignored by the mainstream. Akashic has an excellent reputation and when they release a new book, the quality is guaranteed...
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