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...
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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If you like Victorian era mysteries, you’ll enjoy this book by Patricia Marcantonio. Felicity Carrol, a blue-stocking female, is determined to become a detective in the 1870's. She is spunky and tenacious. This book isn’t the usual Victorian heroine attending teas,...
Sarah J. Sover writes fantasy crossover novels while raising two energetic little people, both girls. She also has an awesome husband. The one-year-old started climbing everything, so Sarah is aging faster than she finds acceptable. To make up for it, she dyes her...
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...
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,...
I have the privilege of visiting today with Frederick S. Lapisardi, Ph.D., a retired professor who taught literature, writing, drama, advertising, and journalism courses at California University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph. D. from New York University in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Today, the lovely Randee Green is joining me for an author interview. Her passion for reading began in grade school with Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Randee has a bachelor's degree as well as a master's in English Literature and an MFA in...
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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