Category: Women’s Books and Writings
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susan Breen
Merry A mother’s valiant efforts to bring her family the joy of Christmas go haywire when she finds herself haunted by the angry ghost of Charles Dickens. Merry Bingham used to love Christmas—until she started worrying all the time about family, money and death. The only thing that continues to bring her joy is reading […]
Author Karen Nelson interviews Lindsay Williams from The Sunken Town
THE SUNKEN TOWN If you admit one truth, what else will you have to acknowledge? Lindsay, a thirty-year-old California native, never gave much thought to being adopted. When she unexpectedly inherits her birth mother Claire’s farmhouse in Maine, she is plunged into a journey across the country and across the years into a lake of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Allison Cundiff
Hey Pickpocket by Allison Cundiff When Frances White, a trauma ICU nurse, flees the United States after a traumatic family event, she finds herself in the most remote place possible: a fishing village off the west coast of Ireland. Despite her best attempts to wall off her heart from the rest of the world, she […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Susan Coll
THE LITERATI An unexpected catastrophe of literary proportions . . . Aspirant, bookish, and close to broke, 26-year-old Clemi steps into her dream job at a prestigious literary nonprofit and finds herself in the bull’s eye of a financial, legal, and existential calamity. The executive director has disappeared, leaving behind an inscrutable cat to which […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: TRACY WOLFF
IT HAPPENED ON A SUNDAY From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff comes a fierce, emotional romance about surviving the spotlight, outrunning your past, and choosing love when everything says you shouldn’t. They call her the Black Widow. A pop star. A tabloid tragedy. A girl who set the world on fire―and got burned in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Swanson interviews Mickey
In North of Tomboy, a semi-autobiographical novel set on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula in 1973, shy fourth-grader Jess Jezowski turns the tables on her mom when she’s given yet another girly baby doll for Christmas. This time, instead of ignoring or destroying it, she transforms it into the boy she’s always wanted to be—a brave, funny […]
L.S. Stratton: Authors Interviewing Characters
IN DEADLY COMPANY An incisive workplace satire and twisty murder mystery featuring a young executive assistant who realizes the peril in being diligently attentive to her boss’s whims. As the assistant of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Nicole Underwood has plenty of tasks on her to-do list—one of which is the blowout birthday […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carla Malden
PLAYBACK 34-year-old Mari Caldwell is fiercely disappointed in herself. She’s done the one thing she always promised herself she would never do: raise her young daughter in a broken home, just as she had been raised. Professionally, making a living by photographing real estate has subsumed her dream of becoming a rock ‘n’ roll photographer. […]
When a Character Shows up in the Flesh
By Cheryl Grey Bostrom author of What the River Keeps — I arrived home to a friend rising from a chair in my home office. She laid an early reader’s copy of my newest novel What the River Keeps on my desk and squared her heavy frame to mine. “I have a bone to pick […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Melissa O’Connor
THE ONE AND ONLY VIVIAN STONE The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in this enchanting novel about estranged lovers reconnecting over mysterious tapes found in an attic and the old Hollywood secret hidden within them. After her grandmother’s death, thirty-something Margot DuBois prepares to sell the house quickly so she can go back […]
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