Angie Kim’s debut novel is a genre-breaking combination of courtroom drama, thriller, mystery, and family drama. Kim deftly blends these myriad elements, a cast of complex characters, and a fascinating plot. Miracle Creek starts—literally—with a bang as a...
Map of Philadelphia When eighteen-year-old Ruby Schmidt defies her parents and her childhood beau and leaves Texas so she can attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, she has no idea what she's getting into. From the moment she disembarks from...
Joining me today is Dianne Freeman, the incomparable author of the light-hearted Countess of Harleigh mystery series. SS: Writing is undoubtedly a lonely occupation. John Green (The Fault in Our Stars) says writing is a profession for introverts who want to tell...
De-Extinction: A Quick Immersion by Carles Lalueza-Fox is a short book but packed with fascinating facts and tidbits. There are few better placed to discuss de-extinction than Lalueza-Fox as he is one of the pioneers of the field of ancient DNA and has seen the field...
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I was born and raised in Big Spring, Texas with time off for moving throughout the western United States as my father, an itinerant well-logging engineer, followed oil wells from state to state. Most of my family stayed in West Texas and ranched near Big Spring or...
Today I'm excited to talk with Daniela Petrova, author of the new thriller, Her Mother's Daughter. Daniela grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Sofia, Bulgaria. After the fall of Communism, she moved to New York where she cleaned apartments while taking English classes...
As a woman and a physician who’s undergone a fertility work-up, I was very interested in reading Her Daughter’s Mother by Daniela Petrova. Little did I know I was getting myself into a psychological thriller. Entranced, I stayed up until four a.m. to finish the book...
In the past few weeks, I've been introducing readers to the various characters in my novel, A Different Kind of Fire. The first week I told you about the main characters, Ruby Schmidt, a late 19th century artist; Bismarck Behrens, her childhood beau; Willow Wycke, her...
Joining me today is author Deborah L. King, whose debut novel, Glory Bishop, was released June 4th, 2019 by Red Adept Publishing. By day, she is a graphic specialist on a medical journal. She spends her days working with radiological images. Growing up, she...
Released by June 4, 2019 by Harper, Ayesha at Last is a Muslim own-voices retelling of Pride and Prejudice, and begins with a clever restatement of Austen’s famous opening line: "Because while it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single Muslim man must be in...
Last week I introduced the four major fictional characters of A Different Kind of Fire. This week I want to talk about some minor characters that really existed back in the 1890s, though their interactions with Ruby Schmidt are purely products of my imagination....
Joining me today is author Toni Mount. Her first book, about the lives of ordinary people in the middle-ages, Everyday Life in Medieval London was published in 2014 by Amberley Publishing. The first print run sold out quickly, and it was voted ‘Best history book of...
I’ve been introducing the characters from A Different Kind of Fire on Twitter and Facebook and realized I should do the same here. Ruby Schmidt, a stubborn Texas gal of eighteen. Though it means abandoning her childhood beau, Bismarck Behrens, she goes to Philadelphia...
Joining me today is Samantha Heuwagen, a Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in Sex Therapy in Atlanta, GA. She’s a graduate of Mercer University School of Medicine where she earned her second Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. Her first Master's...
Jennifer Klepper's debut Unbroken Threads is a lovely, thoughtful book about the intersection between two women’s lives. The protagonist is a former securities lawyer who’s been a stay-at-home-mother, Jessica. She’s trying to re-enter the work force by doing pro bono...
Today Michael Ross joins me to talk about his new book, Across the Great Divide: Clouds of War. A lover of history and great stories, he’s a retired software engineer turned author, with three children and four grandchildren, living in Newton, Kansas with his wife of...
Author Rachel Howard writes of a couple’s struggle to adopt a foster child. It comes as no surprise that the child the narrator and her husband Sebastian choose to foster is a troubled child, Marisa. Having worked with such damaged children, I fully understand the...
Maida Malby, a fellow member of San Antonio Romance Authors, joins me today to talk about writing and her latest books. SS: Maida, tell us how you came to be a writer. MM: My co-members of the Old School Romance Book Club encouraged me to try. We formed a...
Having recently finished Mike Chen’s Here and Now and Then, I undertook another sci-fi novel—and was blown away by Light from Other Stars. Wow!!!—exquisite prose in an ambitious novel told in two timelines, the present (with the protagonist, Nedda Pappas, on a space...
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