Kristy Woodson Harvey – New York Times Bestselling Author
from author's website Kristy Woodson Harvey is the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of eleven novels including A Happier Life, The Summer of Songbirds, and The Peachtree Bluff Series. Many of her books have been optioned or are in...
Sally Brady’s Italian Adventure by Christina Lynch
ABOUT: "A gorgeously entertaining story about a spirited woman during wartime that manages to be a clever caper at times but taut and profound at others"*What if you found yourself in the middle of a war armed only with lipstick and a sense of humor? Abandoned as a...
Hotel Laguna by Nicola Harrison
ABOUT: In 1942, Hazel Francis left Wichita, Kansas for California, determined to do her part for the war effort. At Douglas Aircraft, she became one of many “Rosie the Riveters,” helping construct bombers for the U. S. military. But now the war is over, men have...
Renee Ryan – Award-Winning Author
from author's website Multi-published, award-winning author Renee Ryan sold her first book in 2001 by winning the inaugural Dorchester/Romantic Times New Historical Voice Contest. She published her second book with Harlequin in February 2009 and has since...
In the Aftermath by Jane Ward
ABOUT: When David Herron—overwhelmed and despairing, his family’s business and finances in ruin due to the bursting lending bubble of 2008—takes his own life one chilly spring morning, he has no idea the ripple effect his decision will set into motion. Two years...
Eliza Knight – USA Today bestselling Author
from author's website Eliza Knight is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. Her love of history began as a young girl when she traipsed the halls of Versailles and ran through the fields in Southern France. She can still remember standing before the great...
The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney
ABOUT: WHEN AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD, WHISKY DRINKING, PIANO PRODIGY ENCOUNTERS A WEALTHY FAMILY POSSESSING SUPERNATURAL BEAUTY, HER ENSUING OBSESSION UNLEASHES FAMILY SECRETS AND A CATACLYSMIC PLAGUE OF CICADAS. The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon...
Susie Orman Schnall – Award-Winning Author
from author's website Susie Orman Schnall is the author of five novels about ambitious women: ANNA BRIGHT IS HIDING SOMETHING (2023), WE CAME HERE TO SHINE (2020), THE SUBWAY GIRLS (2018), THE BALANCE PROJECT (2015), and ON...
Career or Calling by Anesa Miller
I know I’m not alone in occasionally shaking my head and wondering, why write at all in our digital day & age? Visual entertainment has proliferated in attractive formats, capturing most available eyeballs. These include social media, games, and shows available...
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
ABOUT: For fans of The Nightingale and The Handmaid's Tale, Cradles of the Reich uncovers a topic rarely explored in fiction: the Lebensborn project, a Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race. Through thorough research and with...
How Dreams & Visions Can Guide Your Writing: An Interview With Anna Quinn, Author of Angeline
Every writer has a special way of developing their characters, revealing the setting, and understanding what is to come from a story. Whatever method you personally use, you will be fascinated by Anna Quinn’s way of channeling her dreams, visions, and other meditative...
Dolley Carlson – Acclaimed Author
from author's website Dolley Carlson is a third-generation Irish American with South Boston “Southie” roots. She is the daughter of one of Boston’s finest (Boston Police Department), and is passionate about weaving the people, locale, and lore of the city into her...
Under the Palms by Kaira Rouda
ABOUT: During a weekend retreat, a powerful family plays a dangerous game of dark secrets and cold-blooded ambition in a novel by Kaira Rouda, USA Today bestselling author of Beneath the Surface. Under the direction of the Kingsleys’ new president,...
Suzy Vitello – Award-Winning Author
from author's website Suzy Vitello’s award-winning short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Rumpus, Mississippi Review, Plazm, Tarpaulin Sky, The Southampton Review and various anthologies and other literary journals. She holds an MFA from Antioch Los Angeles,...
The Book Whisperer RECOMMENDS The Phoenix Crown
Dorothy Caldwell Minor, aka The Book Whisperer, inquisites, "What happens when two bestselling authors team up to write historical fiction?" The result, she finds, is a rousing novel by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang! A little about Dorothy: “I am an avid reader and also...
Bonfire Night by Anna Bliss
ABOUT: Set before and during World War II, this moving, intricately wrought historical novel brings together a young Irish Catholic photographer and a British Jewish medical student, each discovering the price of love, art, and ambition. London, 1936: At twenty-one,...
Kitty Zeldis – Acclaimed Author
from author's website Kitty Zeldis is the pen name of a Brooklyn based author of nine novels, numerous essays, articles and works of short fiction as well as forty books for children. Her two latest novels are both works of historical fiction; NOT OUR KIND is set in...
May is AANHPI Month
It’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. Who are some AANHPI characters or authors you admire? I grew up loving Amy Tan, and now as an adult, have adored Charles Yu's "Interior Chinatown," Kevin Kwan, Jean Kwok, Lauren Lee Ho,...
Judith Lindbergh – Acclaimed Author
from author's website Judith Lindbergh’s new novel, Akmaral, about a nomad woman warrior on the ancient Central Asian steppes, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing on May 7, 2024. Her debut novel, The Thrall’s Tale, about three women in the first Viking Age...
The Goldie Standard by Simi Monheit
ABOUT: An aged Jewish woman kvetches her way toward love while solving everyone else’s problems in Monheit’s bittersweet comic novel. Goldie Mandell, a 90-year-old widow ensconced at the Riverdale Adult Community Residence in the Bronx, is sharp as a tack and busy...