Category: Women’s Books and Writings
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patsy C. Robertson
A CONCOCTION OF LIES Yvonne Hollister is a wealthy, older woman who has led a privileged life in the US and Belize. But she’s suffering from chronic depression after the unexpected deaths of her immediate family members. She’s failed in-patient and outpatient therapies and is now a functional addict hooked on both prescription drugs and […]
Interview with Casey Mulligan Walsh, author of The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared
Interview by Morgan Baker If you read “The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared,” and you should, it may seem like the memoir is about Casey Mulligan Walsh’s son Eric’s untimely death in a single-person car accident when he was 20 and Casey’s grief. While that is most definitely part of it, […]
Sister Collette Character Interview by Ellen Barker, author of The Breaks
Ellen Barker’s illuminating third novel, The Breaks (February 18, She Writes Press), takes a look at the deep injustice of wrongful conviction and what “freedom” means after release from prison. All this is set against the story of Marianne, white and middle-aged and struggling with her own life challenges, including sort-of dating a Black cop. Mixing […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol Plum-Ucci
INSANE POSSIBILITIES by Carol Plum-Ucci Carol Plum-Ucci is the award-winning author of INSANE POSSIBILITIES, an intense psychological thriller and family drama. INSANE POSSIBILITIES introduces Toby Kellerman, an 18 year old facing a tough recovery after surviving a push down a well. Stuck in a hospital bed, he tries to unravel an even tougher mystery — […]
In A Testy Exchange, Book Character Interviews Her Author
A TINY PIECE OF BLUE For fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds and Lisa Wingate’s Shelterwood comes a heartwarming historical novel following a homeless young girl as she struggles to survive during the Great Depression. Rural Michigan, 1934. During the throes of the Great Depression, thirteen-year-old Silstice Trayson finds herself homeless, abandoned by her parents after a devastating […]
Authors Interviewing Characters Gemma Tizzard, speaking to Grace O’Connell from Grace of the Empire State.
A daring young woman takes her brother’s place to risk her life in New York City. A breathtaking historical novel full of heart and hope, family and friendship, and the sacrifices we make for love… As the Great Depression bites, show dancer Grace’s Irish immigrant family can’t afford the rising rents, nor the medicine that her […]
Authors Interviewing Characters. Liza Monroy Interviews Mischa Osborn
THE DISTRACTIONS Solitary tech worker Mischa Osborn is mourning the shelving of her passion project—an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of love—when a chance encounter with a social media celebrity leads her spiraling into an all-consuming obsession. Simultaneously, someone—or something—is watching. Mischa Osborn spends her days as a ProWatcher—keeping distracted people on task and lonely ones […]
Bits of String too Small to Save Character Interview
Bits of String too Small to Save character interview Ruby Peru’s Bits of String too Small to Save catalogues the adventures of ten-year-old ElizabethAnn and Grandma along with a cast of wacky characters bent on saving the forested dystopia of Bumblegreen from certain demise. This rollicking adventure-quest is a coming of age story for two […]
My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast by Zoje Stage & Interview with Pru
Though I’m known as a writer of adult psychological thrillers and psychological horror books, My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast actually predates the publication of my debut novel, Baby Teeth. I’d wanted to give the child character of that novel, Hanna, a favorite book—something her dad would read with her—and after considering copyright issues it became obvious that I […]
Author Interviewing Characters: Author Angela Jackson-Brown Interviews Katia Daniels
UNTETHERED Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . . In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike County Group Home for Negro Boys, she pours her heart into nurturing the young lives under her […]
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