Category: Women’s Books and Writings
Paulette Kennedy: Authors Interviewing Characters
The Life and Loves of an American Artist: An Interview with Marguerite Thorne By Paulette Kennedy, author of THE ARTIST OF BLACKBERRY GRANGE (Lake Union; May 1, 2025) The Artist of Blackberry Grange: A Novel For a young caregiver in the Ozarks, an old house holds haunting memories in a ghostly novel about family secrets, sacrifice, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Shelby Saville
And They Had a Great Fall is a love story about a secret relationship between a single mother and a rising celebrity. Their romance started during the pandemic, a time when the entire world stopped. This unlikely pair reunite a year later in Copenhagen, after the world has reopened. What happens when they have to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jude Berman
THE VOW In a stunning work of feminist historical fiction for readers who loved Dawn Tripp’s Georgia and Whitney Scharer’s The Age of Light, Jude Berman brings painter Angelica Kauffman to life. Accused of dressing as a boy to study in the prestigious galleries of eighteenth-century Italy, child prodigy Angelica Kauffman has set high goals for herself. She […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susan E. Sage
SILVER LADY: TRAVELS ALONG THE RIVER ROAD Character interview: Cassie in Silver Lady by Susan E. Sage Cassie Navrone is the main character in my recently published novel, Silver Lady: Travels Along the River Road. The year is 2033. A new pandemic (The Strangler Virus) has left many dead and the USA is about to […]
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 […]
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