Category: Interviews
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 […]
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 […]
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