Brian J. Morra – Award-Winning Novelist
from author’s website Brian J. Morra has spent his career in intelligence and national security beginning with his time as a decorated Air Force Intelligence officer and through his many years as a senior executive in the aerospace and defense industry. Brian was...
I Never Do This by Anesa Miller
ABOUT: MEET THE UNFORGETTABLE YOUNG WOMAN, LaDene Faye Howell, who finds herself in police custody recounting her story after her paroled cousin Bobbie Frank appears and engages her in a crime spree. LaDene Faye Howell has spent her life in the small town of...
Lian Dolan – Bestselling Author, Podcaster, and Speaker
from author’s website ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lian Dolan is a writer and talker. She’s the author of four best-selling novels, Lost and Found in Paris, The Sweeney Sisters, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife. Her new...
The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson
ABOUT: Inspired by true events, The Wartime Book Club is an unforgettable story of everyday bravery and resistance, full of romance, drama, and camaraderie and a tribute to the joy of reading and the power of books in our darkest hour.The Isle of Jersey was...
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg – Award-Winning Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her novel The Nine (SWP 2019) was honored with the 2019 Foreword Indies Gold Award in Thriller & Suspense and the Gold Medal and Juror’s Choice in the...
Piper Huguley – Author of Historical Fiction featuring African American Characters
from author's website ABOUT PIPER: Piper G. Huguley’s biographical historical fiction, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie...
Friends in Napa by Sheila Yasmin Marikar
ABOUT: Six old friends descend on Napa Valley for a luxurious weekend of fine wine and good times…until old tensions simmer to the surface. So much can go wrong in this dark comedy by the author of The Goddess Effect. Just get yourselves here, everything else is...
Don’t Let Rejection Define You or Determine Your Future!
by Zoro the Drummer Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ~ Marilyn vos Savant Hello Friends, I want to encourage you with some lesser-known truths about some of the most successful people of all time. ELVIS PRESLEY...
Aimie K. Runyan – International Bestselling Author
from author’s website From even my earliest years, I loved jotting down stories and really, really bad poetry. I dabbled in the world of the short story for a long time, until I finally sat down one fateful February day and decided that my beloved short...
Author Book Review – by Rebecca Rosenberg
Our authors are avid readers, too! Rebecca Rosenberg, champagne geek, lavender farmer, and award-winning author of the Champagne Widows Novels Champagne Widows and Madame Pommery: Creator of Brut Champagne is dedicating the month of March to...
Stephanie Dray – New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling Author
from author’s website STEPHANIE DRAY is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author of historical women’s fiction. Her award-winning work has been translated into many languages and tops lists for the most anticipated reads of the...
Little Avalanches by Becky Ellis
ABOUT: A daughter’s quest for truth. A soldier’s fight for survival. Their shared search for understanding. Little Avalanches is a gorgeously written memoir of breathtaking scope that propels readers from the beaches of California in the early ‘70s to the...
The Fallen Woman’s Daughter by Michelle Cox
ABOUT: When eight-year-old Nora arrives at the Park Ridge School for Girls in 1932, she is sure there’s been some mistake. She can’t imagine why she and her little sister, Patsy, were torn from their mother only to be subjected to the cruel whims of the house matron,...
Brigit Binns – Memoirist and Prolific Cookbook Author
from author’s website Brigit’s cookbook Eating up the West Coast was her 29th. A prolific cookbook author, her titles have sold over 100,000 copies. In addition, she’s helped some of the U.S.A.’s most respected chefs, like New York’s Michael Psilakis...
Doesn’t Get Better Than This!
“Our Zoomers were so honored to have Jennifer Rosner join our discussion of her novel Once We Were Home. It was such a wonderful meeting! Jennifer shared so much with us about her family, her research and inspirations behind this very beautiful and...
Can’t We Be Friends by Eliza Knight
ABOUT: Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn...
Cara Black – NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author
from author’s website Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. Cara has received multiple nominations for the...
Traveling Book Club meets Renee Rosen!
“Our Traveling Book Club had a wonderful time hosting “Dollface” author, Renee Rosen, on our February Zoom meeting!Renee is so personable and fun to chat with. She let us delve into her world as a writer, her process, her exciting characters, some of the upcoming...
Alix Rickloff – Critically Acclaimed Author of Historical Fiction
from author’s website Critically acclaimed author of historical fiction, Alix Rickloff’s family tree includes a knight who fought during the Wars of the Roses (his brass rubbing hangs in her dining room) and a soldier who sided with Charles I during the English Civil...
How Fires End by Marco Rafalà
ABOUT: A dark secret born out of World War II lies at the heart of a Sicilian American family in this emotional and sweeping saga of guilt, revenge, and, ultimately, redemption. After soldiers vacate the Sicilian hillside town of Melilli in the summer of 1943, the...