It wouldn't be a new month without a #FireStarter giveaway! This time, the prize is one signed paperback of A Different Kind of Fire, and a handmade, beaded velvet bookmark, which I love to see have been making readers happy on #bookstagram! 🤩🔥 Ends at midnight/CT on...
Sometimes, the hardest thing to change is yourself. Eva Hagberg Fisher has written a gut-wrenching memoir about being being unloved and unloveable. This isn't a typical love story—though Eva falls in love with Winston Fisher, her husband—but is a story about the love...
A Different Kind of Fire has been selected as a finalist in the Women Fiction Writers' Association's STAR award in the debut novel category. The winners will be announced on September 27, 2019 at the Annual WFWA Retreat in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I join the following...
This week, Autumn Lindsey joins me to talk about her upcoming release by Magnolia Press, Remaining Eileen. She is a thirty-something write-at-home-mom of three. Before kids, she worked full-time in a salon as a hairstylist. She lives in Northern California with her...
Juno Rushdan’s debut novel, Every Last Breath, is intense. Suspense, action, and explicit sex scenes are roughly equally dispersed through the book. What is missing are the quiet sequels after the action to allow the reader to recuperate. Protagonist Maddox moves in...
You have a new novel coming out, The Fourth Courier, set in Poland. What’s it about? Photo by Michael Honegger @ www.michaelhoneggerphotos.com. The Fourth Courier opens in the spring of 1992, only four months after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A series...
To celebrate Earth Day, I am sneaking in a book review on Monday rather than Thursday. The release of Julia Goldstein's Material Value: More Sustainable, Less Wasteful Manufacturing of Everything from Cell Phones to Cleaning Products is being timed with Earth Day, so...
Pickle's Progress is the debut novel of Marcia Butler, retired world-famous oboist. The title drew me in as I could only think of one other novel with “Pickle” in the title, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. The latter is an 18th century satire in which a young,...
Martine Fournier Watson meets with me today to talk about her debut novel, The Dream Peddler. It is historical/literary fiction released April 9, 2018 by Penguin Books. Originally she hails from Montreal, Canada but has been living in the U.S. for fifteen years. Like...
The Lost History of Dreams is an accomplished debut novel which reminded me of classics such as Wuthering Heights and the more contemporary Possession by A.S. Byatt. Set in Victorian England, the book, rich with Gothic creepiness, layers several love stories into a...
Today, author Michael R. Johnston joins me to talk about his debut science fiction novel, The Widening Gyre (The Remembrance War, Book 1), issued by Flame Tree Press on March 14, 2019. Michael is a high school English teacher and writer living in Sacramento,...
In her debut novel, Isabella Hammad uses richly-textured prose to invoke the turbulence of the Middle East right after World War I. I recently read Kurt Seyt and Shura by Nermin Bezmen and The Carpet Weaver of Usak by Kathryn Gauci, both of which deal roughly with the...
Author Eva Seyler Eva Seyler's debut novel, The War in Our Hearts was just released on March 24, 2019. She was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but left that humidity pit at the age of three and spent the next twenty-one years in California, Idaho, Kentucky, and...
Set shortly after the Soviet Union imploded, this international intrigue takes FBI agent Jay Porter into Poland. There he’s quickly involved in a case where three men have been found dead on a riverbank. All have a minor genetic deformity: a stub of a sixth finger....
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...
Christie Grotheim joins me today to talk about her debut novel, The Year Marjorie Moore Learned to Live which will be released on April 2, 2019 by Heliotrope Books. Christie is a New York-based writer whose stories have been featured in Salon, The New York...
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...
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