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Authors Interviewing Characters: Robin Farmer

Authors Interviewing Characters: Robin Farmer

Inspired by Farmer’s own confrontation with a nun over a racist comment as a young girl, Malcolm and Me is a coming-of-age story about the adolescent trauma of a black Catholic schoolgirl in Philadelphia confronting racism and the hypocrisy that surrounds her, within her school, her family, her community, and the Oval Office as Watergate unfolds. Winner […]

November 17, 2020 | By | Reply More
Interview with Amy Jean

Interview with Amy Jean

Amy Jean is a dreamer, a poet, mother, and writer sharing compelling stories. As a poet and writer, she has written numerous books. The Kingdom has Arrived: Foundations Volume 1, her debut memoir, is a compilation of poetry and prose that details her mystical and otherworldly encounters, including physical manifestations, visions, locutions, prophetic dreams, and […]

November 14, 2020 | By | Reply More
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Ellen Alpsten Interviews Tsarina

AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Ellen Alpsten Interviews Tsarina

Lover, murder, mother, Tsarina. Memoirs of a Geisha meets Game of Thrones in this page-turning epic charting the untold story – the extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of Catherine I Spring 1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in her remote Baltic village. Sold by her family into household labour at […]

November 11, 2020 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol Van Den Hende

Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol Van Den Hende

If you like heart-wrenching romances and magnanimous heroes, then you’ll love this emotionally-charged story. For fans of Me Before You and Fault in Our Stars, Goodbye, Orchid (a winner of Pinnacle Book Award for multicultural fiction) asks… “What choice does a wounded hero have when loving his woman means breaking his own heart?” Thirty-two year-old Phoenix Walker is an […]

November 9, 2020 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Lisa Braxton

Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Lisa Braxton

The fiery issue of urban gentrification is the steady beat thrumming beneath the surface of the novel, ​The Talking Drum. In 1972 the fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon that promises to transform the dying factory town. Sydney Stallworth steps away from her law studies […]

November 3, 2020 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alexa Recio de Fitch

Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alexa Recio de Fitch

Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alexa Recio de Fitch About Alexa’s Mystery Novel, Triggers:  Phillip Weatherly’s biggest secret is that he’s a killer with a sealed juvenile record who grew up to become a bestselling crime fiction author. Then, striking similarities between a homicide and his detective fiction novel get this adrenaline junkie—who trespasses into ruins—arrested. […]

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Character Interview – Crystal King

Character Interview – Crystal King

Character Interview – Crystal King  About The Chef’s Secret When Bartolomeo Scappi dies in 1577, he leaves his vast estate—properties, money, and his position—to his nephew and apprentice Giovanni. He also gives Giovanni the keys to two strongboxes and strict instructions to burn their contents. Despite Scappi’s dire warning that the information concealed in those […]

November 1, 2020 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol M. Cram

Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol M. Cram

Carol M. Cram is the author of Love Among the Recipes in which cookbook author Genna McGraw takes off for Paris to write a crossover cookbook/guidebook, while also picking up the pieces of her shattered marriage. Carol’s other novels include three award-winning works of historical fiction about women in the arts: The Towers of Tuscany […]

October 29, 2020 | By | Reply More
Q and A With Ann Lambert, The Dogs of Winter

Q and A With Ann Lambert, The Dogs of Winter

The Dogs of Winter (Second Story Press, October 28th 2020) is a compelling story full of hot button Canadian topics pulled from the headlines. Locations in this murder-mystery are personal to author Ann Lambert who taught at Dawson College across the street from where much of the action takes place and saw what went on every […]

October 28, 2020 | By | Reply More
A Character Interview: Lenore Gay

A Character Interview: Lenore Gay

Joss and Phil’s already rocky marriage is fragmented when Phil is injured in a devastating fire and diagnosed with Capgras delusion—a misidentification syndrome in which a person becomes convinced that a loved one has been replaced by an identical imposter. Faced with a husband who no longer recognizes her, Joss struggles to find motivation to […]

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