Category: Interviews
Authors Interviewing Characters: Stella Fosse
Character Interview with Vivienne Vivienne Underwood began life as a medieval swordswoman and vampire. She is the protagonist in the 2026 novel, The Sword of Vivienne, Book One of the Blood Sisters Chronicles. Stella: You were born in 1398. Vivienne: So they tell me. I don’t remember being born. Stella: What do you remember? What’s […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mara Williams
The Other Side of Starting Over Bygones on Main, an antique store in the California mountain town of Suncrest, has been in the Bell Family for three generations. It attracts collectors and tourists alike and sells one-of-a-kind treasures and kitschy knickknacks in an expansive, labyrinthine storefront on Main Street. The longtime shopkeepers, Paul and Linea […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laurel Osterkamp
In Love With Your Ghost: A Cozy, Spooky, Slow-Burn Fall Romance (Sugar Pine Springs) Hartley and Levi fell in love, and it was magic. Until Levi ghosted her. No goodbye, no explanation. He didn’t die. He just left her haunted. Which is ironic, since Hartley can legit see ghosts. Thirteen years later, Levi’s grandmother and […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Frankie Chase
BAD WINNER Bad Winner is an epic, unsettling and darkly comic adventure thriller set between a stifling England and the wilds of Colombia. Black sheep Bea craves freedom as much as her populist dad craves power. Intent on estranging her bigoted family, Bea’s embroiled herself in debt working a dead-end job planning competition prizes, gambling […]
Character Interview: Cassie in Silver Lady: The Invisible Captain
Cassie Navrone is the main character of my new book, Silver Lady: The Invisible Captain. My novel is a standalone sequel to Silver Lady: Travels Along the River Road. This one takes place a year later in 2034. Cassie is able to leave New Orleans following a six-month civil war aboard the luxury houseboat. She […]
WHEN HAMLETT MET FEARON: Two Playwrights Talk the Talk
Rodgers had Hammerstein. Lerner had Loewe. Moss had Hart. When we think of great collaborations, we typically imagine two creatives hunkered down in a room and spending more time with each other than with their respective families. Technology, however, has given birth to more inventive devices to pool respective skill sets and resources and spin […]
ARIADNE SPEAKS BEYOND THE LABYRINTH By Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Ariadne: A Greek Tale of Labyrinths and Legacies For fans of Madeline Miller, a retelling of the tale of a bold, resilient woman from Greek myth who transforms heartbreak into fierce strength, weaving a new legend where sanctuary rises from betrayal and the Labyrinth is reborn. In a world shaped by gods, kings, and ancient […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Melissa R. Collings
“I’m very picky about romance, but Melissa completely won me over—her writing is sharp, charming, and just incredibly readable in the best way.” —Mindy Kaling THE LOVE OPERATION What if you could step back into your memories and experience them exactly as they happened? Dr. Cordelia Wren (Cord) has always trusted science more than sentiment. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Andrea Thome
A fresh voice in contemporary romance, Andrea Thome, author of the award-winning Hesse Creek Series, returns with Mine Again, the first book in her new Sunflower Series, set in a fictional small town in western Montana. Delilah Spencer is a rolling stone. A big city attorney from Chicago on a temporary work assignment in Sunflower, […]
Interview with Trish from NARCISSI by Babette Fraser Hale
Narcissi is a novel in linked stories about ten women who fall for a charismatic Texas novelist named Cole Burnett. Freshly split from his second wife when the story begins, Cole celebrates his freedom to write something important, significant. His life is lonely, though, and he keeps meeting women who share his need for warmth […]
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