Because I'd read Sara Ackerman’s debut novel, Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers, I continued with her second novel. Told in the dual, third-person perspectives of Eva Cassidy and Lieutenant Clark Spencer interspersed with real memos, headlines, and military...
Andrea Rothman joins me today to talk about her debut novel, The DNA of You and Me. It was released March 12, 2019 by HarperCollins. Before turning to fiction writing, Andrea Rothman was a research scientist at Rockefeller University in New York. She holds an MFA in...
In the City by the Lake, Viktor, a half-Jewish Russian emigre, lives a life of quiet desperation as a low-grade mobster in Chicago from 1929 to 1938. Raised in an all-male family (his mother died birthing him), his Weltanschauung is skewed. He’s a tortured character...
Author Felicia Grossman has a day job, one she absolutely adores. She's a lawyer and works for a local government agency and has fabulous coworkers. She also has a husband with a boring day-job (but who does art on the side), two little kids, and two very bad, but...
I had to read The Chef's Secret because I’ve lived extensively in Italy. I've also read Crystal King’s The Feast of Sorrow and enjoyed her approach to food. Her newest historical novel did not let me down. The descriptions of food were enough to make me...
Danielle Haas joins me today to discuss her debut novel, Bound by Danger, which was released by MacMillan on January 28, 2019. She grew up with a love of reading, partly due to her namesake—Danielle Steele. It seemed as though she was born to write out the same love...
I was intrigued enough by the title, The Psychology of Time Travel, to pick up Kate Mascaenhas's new book. This is a genre-breaking book combining time travel, science fiction, a “locked room” mystery, with touches of romance. I am sure there are techies out there who...
Today I have the honor of speaking with Dan Stout whose debut novel, Titanshade, will be released by DAW on March 3, 2019. Dan lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he writes about fever dreams and half-glimpsed shapes in the shadows. His prize-winning fiction draws on...
At last, the days are getting longer, but there's still just enough winter "meh" left to slog through, and I've got the cure: let's FIESTA! See below for more, and to get in on this vibrant and sizzling new giveaway. One grand prize winner will receive a signed copy...
I started this book and decided I really wasn’t interested in reading a story about F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood at that particular moment, preferring something lighter and fluffier. But I decided to read a few pages, and the next thing I knew I’d finished the...
Shari Randall pops in today for my weekly interview with an writer. She's the author of the Lobster Shack Mystery series from St. Martin’s Press. The first, Curses, Boiled Again, was recently nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Author Shari Randall A...
The San Antonio Romance Authors, fondly known as SARA, took me in when I was a fledgling writer and held my hand through the various revisions of my two novels. Now, we've banded together to create Love Fiesta Style, an anthology of seventeen short stories...
Today I am interviewing Negeen Papehn, author of the Forbidden Love series. She was born and raised in southern California, where she currently lives with her husband and two boys. She wasn’t always a writer. A graduate of USC dental school, Negeen spends half of her...
The Forgiving Kind was released by Kensington on January 29, 2019. Immediately, I was drawn to the story because I grew up with a similar hard-scrapple cotton farming family in Texas and picked cotton with my cousins and migrant farm workers. Author Donna...
Author MV Ellis An avid reader, Ellis always knew that she’d write a book of her own one day. She was right about that. Following a career spanning advertising, marketing, and social media, she finally wrote her debut novel, Catching London in...
Because books + food = passion! In case you haven't noticed here on my blog, I love to bake and cook just about as much as I love to write. So I thought it would be fun to give away a Penzey's Spices gift set, a signed copy of my book, A DIFFERENT KIND OF FIRE, and a...
I have read every single Tony Hillerman book and, being raised in the Southwest, loved how he (and later his daughter Anne Hillerman) captured so beautifully the aura of the land and its people. When I heard Hearts of the Missing had won the Tony Hillerman Prize for...
Mike's time-travel novel, Here and Now and Then, is being released by Mira today, January 29, 2019, so this is a celebratory interview. Mike Chen is a lifelong writer. He has contributed to major geek websites (The Mary Sue, The Portalist, Tor), covered the NHL for...
What Doesn’t Kill You is Aimee Hix’s debut novel. She now has a second out in the same series (Willa Pennington, PI Mysteries), Dark Streets, Cold Suburbs, which I am eager to read. If you like strong female protagonists in detective/mystery series such as Sara...
Sadira Stone has been spinning steamy tales in her head since her first kiss. But it wasn’t until her 50s that she tried her hand at writing one. Now she’s a happy citizen of Romancelandia, penning contemporary romance and cozy mysteries from her home in Washington...
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