Category: Women’s Books and Writings
Interview with Rachel Michelberg and Gabi Coatsworth
Authors Rachel Michelberg and Gabi Coatsworth have both written memoirs that explore marriage, caregiving, love, and loss. We interviewed them to find out more about their writing process, and how they feel about it now that their books are published. How long after the events in the book did you start writing about it? And […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Gibney
Patricia Gibney interviews detective Lottie Parker, of The Guilty Girl About THE GUILTY GIRL An Utterly Gripping and Unputdownable Serial Killer Thriller Something whistling through the door behind her caused her to turn. A shadow spread across the opening. She clasped a hand to her mouth, stilling the fear that was rising. The menacing shadow […]
Interview with Elissa Grossell Dickey
Elissa Grossell Dickey’s second novel IRIS IN THE DARK is out 7th of June and we’re delighted to feature this interview with her! Early praise for IRIS IN THE DARK “A lucky few of us walk in the sunshine, and the rest of us have to fight our way out of the dark. Elissa Grossell […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Namrata Patel
Namrata Patel interviews Neha Patel from The Candid Life of Meena Dave About THE CANDID LIFE OF MEENA DAVE A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, family secrets, and rediscovering the need to belong. Meena Dave is a photojournalist and a nomad. She has no family, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: B.L. Blanchard interviews Chibenashi
THE PEACEKEEPER Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and finding himself. North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don’t exist. The Great Lakes are surrounded by an independent Ojibwe nation. And in the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marilyn Simon Rothstein
Speaking Of—And To—My Protagonist My new book, Crazy to Leave You, is published by Lake Union. Maddie Dawson, author of The Magic of Found Objects, said “Crazy to Leave You is the funniest book I’ve read in practically forever.” The protagonist, Lauren Leo, is a forty-one-year-old, scale-obsessed, advertising executive. She is the last of her […]
Which Brazilian Goddess Would You Call for Help?
Which Brazilian Goddess Would You Call for Help? Insights and an Excerpt from Dance Among the Flames As I was researching and writing my new dark fiction standalone, what fascinated me the most were the syncretic religions that blended African Yoruba, Indigenous Brazilian traditions, and Portuguese Catholicism. In the Umbanda religion—known as Candomblé in Bahia—mediums […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Connie Berry
What happens when you mix a suspenseful & elegant mystery set in Victorian England with plenty of antiques, a loveable amateur sleuth, a touch of romance, and an incredibly dark secret? You get the latest book by Connie Berry titled The Shadow of Memory The Shadow of Memory follows Kate Hamilton as she makes a shocking connection between a sixty-year-old murder and the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jacinda Townsend
MOTHER COUNTRY Saddled with student loans, medical debt, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Liz Michalski
ABOUT DARLING GIRL In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J. M. Barrie’s classic, to save her daughter’s life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be…. Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy—yes, that Wendy. She’s running a successful […]
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