Category: Contemporary Women Writers
August: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, August is in the books, and before we get to actual books, I’d like to welcome new readers and share the hows and whys of this column. I read a ton. My preference is women’s fiction, literary, thrillers, and some historical fiction and memoirs. I’m always reading a physical book and […]
Whatever Happened To Lori Lovely? by Sarah McCoy: Excerpt
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LORI LOVELY? From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun. In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Cinematic Destinies
CINEMATIC DESTINIES For fans of Tessa Bailey and Hannah Grace, Cinematic Destinies is a feel-good, contemporary romance about a trio of adult children searching for love and beauty in the shadow of their parents’ legendary Hollywood fairy-tale romance. Legendary actor Finn Forrester and his wife philosopher Ella Sinclair Forrester met on the location shoot for Jean Mercier’s […]
Women and War: Letters from Ukraine to the Free World
By Aurélie Bros I became a researcher for a simple reason—to seek truth wherever it may be found. For over a decade, I devoted myself to studying energy geopolitics, with a particular focus on the post-Soviet region. I lived there, published, taught, and conducted my research. My life was intertwined with the region in countless […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Auralee Wallace
The Late-Night Witches An enchantingly warm and funny novel about family, love lost and found, discovering who you are, and how difficult it is to slay a vampire from the beloved national bestselling author of the TikTok sensation In the Company of Witches. Cassie Beckett’s life is anything but magical. With a wild younger sister, three […]
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
By Nicole Nehrig My life was in transition as I began writing With Her Own Hands. Without school or childcare available during the pandemic, it was no longer tenable to balance a full-time job as a psychologist and researcher at a VA hospital with being the parent of two preschool-aged children. Research, which had been […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emma St. Clair
If All Else Sails In this grumpy-sunshine romance, school nurse Josie and her brother’s best friend–hockey player Wyatt Jacobs–are tricked into spending a summer together that’s anything but smooth sailing. When Josie’s brother sends her to a random address for their (sometimes) annual Super Summer Sibling Extravaganza, she finds neither siblings nor extravaganzas. Instead, ends […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carla Malden
PLAYBACK 34-year-old Mari Caldwell is fiercely disappointed in herself. She’s done the one thing she always promised herself she would never do: raise her young daughter in a broken home, just as she had been raised. Professionally, making a living by photographing real estate has subsumed her dream of becoming a rock ‘n’ roll photographer. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julia London
New York Times bestselling author Julia London returns with a story about forgiveness and second chances perfect for fans of The Wedding People and The Husbands. After forty-two years, Lorna Lott is ready to learn where she’s going with her life–even if it means revisiting all the places she wishes she hadn’t been. It’ll be fine. Probably. Maybe. Lorna […]
The Afterlife is Real: What I discovered while writing Dear Bobby: My Grief Journey and The Married Widow: My Journey with Bob Zappa
By Diane Papalia Zappa My husband Bob Zappa and I rarely spoke about an afterlife. He believed life on earth was the end, so there really wasn’t much to talk about. As for me, I wasn’t sure. I was open to the possibility, but wasn’t counting on it. Shortly after Bob passed away late in […]
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