Category: Women’s Books and Writings
Authors Interviewing Characters: Chital Mehta
Have You Seen Romit? When twenty-five-year-old Romit, Usha’s adopted son, doesn’t respond to her calls, she has a sinking feeling in her stomach. Her husband, Om, who has never accepted their adopted son, tries to convince her to move on. With time, though, it’s clear Usha is right: Romit has gone missing. When the police […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jessica Siskin
Part satire, part emotional character study, LOOKS PERFECT explores identity, performative culture, and what authenticity means in a hyper-visible world offering a timely look at internet fame and the gap between how we’re seen and who we are. Siskin brings a uniquely informed perspective: a former fashion executive and founder of the viral Instagram brand Misterkrisp, she […]
Zoje Stage: Authors Interviewing Characters
SOMETHING OF A CALLING Detective Andy Cooper is about to retire. She isn’t sure what’s next … perhaps traveling in the RV she has yet to buy, with a dog she doesn’t currently own. Perhaps gardening near the ever-shrinking patch of woods behind her house-once the cable company’s backhoe is removed. She’ll need to do something, […]
HOME: A Memoir of Family, Forgiveness, and Healing from Complex PTSD by Amy Smyth Miller
Her past held the answers—if she was brave enough to face it. After nearly losing her husband, Amy Smyth Miller’s panic spirals out of control. Therapy reveals a diagnosis she never expected: Complex PTSD. In search of healing, Amy embarks on a harrowing excavation of her past—childhood neglect, homelessness, parental addiction, and a family history shadowed by suicide. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Melissa Payne
IN THIS LIFE OR ANOTHER On the brink of death, a man comes to terms with the life he lived versus the one he never pursued in an emotionally rich novel of parallel lives, redemption, and finding purpose. On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, mechanic Rusty Wilson takes a bullet to save the patrons […]
Character Interview: Diane Schaffer
Interview with Noli Cooper, lawyer and investigator, protagonist in Mortal Zin MORTAL ZIN When corporate attorney Noli Cooper visits her godparents’ Santa Cruz Mountain winery, she’s hoping for a few quiet days to consider her future. But the future will have to wait. The body of her childhood mentor, a crusading social justice lawyer and […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lauren Johnson
The Soufflé Also Rises (The Lizi Cleverly Midlife Badass Detective Series) A laugh-out-loud midlife reinvention caper set in Paris for fans of Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan series and Deanna Raybourn’s Killers of a Certain Age. It’s 2008 and Lizi just can’t catch a break. On the heels of a nasty divorce and a paltry settlement agreement—barely enough to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Gabriella Saab
In 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic, Nabiha “Bea” Nohra is traveling to America to find work, eager to earn the funds necessary to afford passage for the family she left in Lebanon. On the same ship, heiress Marguerite Ashby sails home to celebrate her engagement to a dull British lord, a marriage that will secure her […]
Interview with J.T. Ellison, Author of YOU KNOW WHY
On August 25, 2026, bestselling author J.T. Ellison is set to release her highly anticipated and most haunting domestic thriller yet, YOU KNOW WHY (Thomas & Mercer). Building on the success of Last Seen and A Very Bad Thing, Ellison returns with a meticulously crafted domestic thriller that is impossible to put down. It’s a masterclass in suspense that explores the chilling […]
Character Interview: Kathleen Reidy
At twenty-nine, Chelsea Lefevre’s life choices have been considered and prudent, meant to secure her on a shore far from the rocky place where she started out. Yet as Engineering a Love Story opens, the strands of Chelsea’s steady and safe life are unravelling. But I don’t know any of that. To me, Chelsea is […]
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