Category: Women’s Books and Writings
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Annette Chavez Macias
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Annette Chavez Macias About Big Chicas Don’t Cry Four cousins navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family over the course of one memorable year in this heartfelt family drama. Cousins Mari, Erica, Selena, and Gracie are inseparable. They aren’t just family but best friends―sharing secrets, traditions, and a fierce love for […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kristen Tsetsi
Author Kristen Tsetsi decided on a slightly alternative Authors Interviewing Characters piece. Graham Harrison, from her novel AGE OF THE CHILD, interviews his wife, Katherine Oxford. Read the Daily Fact’s Exclusive Interview with Oxford Spirits Owner Katherine Oxford As families struggle with the financial burden of providing for a deluge of unplanned children following the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Diane Cohen Schneider
The Devil Wears Prada meets the high stakes of Wall Street in this smart, funny novel by a former Wall Street sales pro that is written for everyone who’s had a love/hate relationship with their job. ANDREA HOFFMAN GOES ALL IN Andrea Hoffman is an overeducated, underemployed, and unmotivated recent college graduate—until an unexpected robbery blasts […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Arlene Mark
Author Arlene Mark shines light on a myriad of hot topics from global warming, immigration, and the impact of war at home, to unlikely friendships and parent-teen relationships in THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER (August 16, SparkPress, 12-16 years, grade 7-9). Perfect for fans of The Ice House by Monica Sherwood and The Queen Bee and Me by Gillian McDunn as well as […]
Author Interviewing Characters: Gill Paul
Author Interviewing Characters International bestselling author Gill Paul returns with The Manhattan Girls, a novel about famous wit Dorothy Parker and three of her friends – Jane Grant, Winifred Lenihan, and Peggy Leech – who started a bridge group in 1920s New York City. Against the backdrop of louche speakeasies and scary bootleggers, rising hemlines […]
Interview with Rhys Bowen
Rhys Bowen is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels. Her latest novel, WHERE THE SKY BEGINS is just out! We are delighted to feature this interview with Rhys. Tell us about your beginning, where are you from? I was born in Bath, England, educated at London University and then worked in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sue Mell
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sue Mell interviews Connie, from PROVENANCE About PROVENANCE Still grieving his wife’s early death, 57-year-old DJ takes refuge in his sister Connie’s half-finished basement, imagining a comfortable and solitary retreat in the Hudson Valley town where they grew up. Instead, he finds himself caught up in her troubling divorce, drafted as caregiver […]
Healing Grief and Addiction through art: a Conversation with Waterbury Winter author Linda Stewart Henley
Healing grief and addiction through art: a conversation with Waterbury Winter author Linda Stewart Henley for Women Writers Women’s Books Historical novelist Ellen Notbohm asks some provocative questions in conversation with author Linda Stewart Henley about Henley’s new novel Waterbury Winter. Besides exploring protagonist Barnaby Brown’s mid-life journey through grief and addiction, Ellen and Linda […]
Podcast #2: Home So Far Away: The Other Side
HOME SO FAR AWAY A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Klara’s first visit to Seville in 1925 opens her eyes and her spirit to an era in which Spain’s major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Leslie Hooton
We’re delighted to share this Authors Interviewing Characters piece by Leslie Hooton! Leslie was inspired to write an interview with the novel’s protagonist–wife, mother and murder suspect, Bailey Edgeworth–where Leslie poses as a writer for Architectural Digest magazine and discusses career goals, relationships, family history, and more with her character. About AFTER EVERYONE ELSE Bailey […]
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