Category: Interviews
Q&A with Deb Caletti
National Book Award Finalist and Printz Honor Recipient Deb Caletti is the author of nearly twenty books for teens, adults, and kids, including her newest, ONE GREAT LIE (coming June 1, 2021). We are delighted to feature this interview! How did your childhood impact the writer you’ve become? I was a voracious reader as a […]
Prohibition Wine: A True Story of One Woman’s Daring in Twentieth-Century America
Marian Leah Knapp, Author, Prohibition Wine: A True Story of One Woman’s Daring in Twentieth-Century America, Interviews her grandmother, Rebecca Wernick Goldberg, circa 1935. …………… I never knew my grandmother – only heard her children’s memories. Rebecca was my dad’s mother who died when I was eighteen months old. As a teenage immigrant from the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters : Loren Stephens
Loren Stephens is a published essayist, short story writer and president of two ghostwriting companies, Write Wisdom and Bright Star Memoirs, which she founded to help her client/authors write their memoirs, self-help books and novels. ALL SORROWS CAN BE BORNE published on May 11, 2021 by Rare Bird Books will be her first novel penned under her own name. […]
Ann Garvin interviews the characters of her novel I Thought You Said This Would Work
Three Frenemies risk their sanity on a cross country road trip with an enormous dog in a dilapidated camper all for the mutual love of a best friend in the hospital. “Ann Garvin navigates the twists and turns of female friendship like few writers working today. I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS WOULD WORK is at once profound, […]
Interview with Mary O’Connor from The Ends of the Earth
Author Abbie Greaves interviews Mary O’Connor from her new novel The Ends of the Earth, known as Anywhere for You in the USA & Canada. It tells the story of why Mary has been stood outside Ealing Broadway train station every evening for the last seven years, carrying a sign that reads simply: COME HOME […]
Authors Interview Characters: Yang Huang
“Huang does an admirable job balancing Bao’s individual story against the canvas of China’s evolution using crisply drawn characters who reveal their layers as the story progresses. . . . A knotty, engaging novel of China’s recent history.”—Kirkus Reviews When a handsome young gay American man walks into Mr. Cai’s small tailor shop in provincial […]
Pamela Skjolsvik: Character Interview
In Skjolsvik’s latest, the cure for vampirism is much like the 12-step treatment for alcoholism, and Veronica goes to meetings just to make bearable the maddeningly boring life of being a middle-aged female vampire. An event as mundane as a trip to a tanning salon has Veronica facing her hunger for the dim-witted Britney, her […]
Interview with Barbara Linn Probst
Barbara Linn Probst Tell us about your new book! What is The Sound Between the Notes about? As Kirkus Reviews has described it, The Sound Between the Notes is “a sensitive, astute exploration of artistic passion, family, and perseverance.” It’s a story about what happens when a woman—a pianist—who’s always struggled with identity is given […]
Brittney Morris Interviews Alex Rufus
“Morris succeeds in blending moments of ‘Black boy joy,’ superhuman abilities, intergenerational trauma, mental health (including a description of self-harm), and loss into a resonant story of fraternal love that first compels, then devastates, and will be remembered for a long time.” —Publishers Weekly, starred About THE COST OF KNOWING Dear Martin meets They Both Die at […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Denny S. Bryce Interviews Lil Hardin Armstrong
Jazz-age Chicago comes to vibrant life in Denny S. Bryce’s evocative novel that links the stories of an ambitious chorus girl and a modern-day film student, both coming to grips with loss, forgiveness, and the limitations—and surprises—of love. 1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club […]
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