Category: Women’s Books and Writings
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laurie Notaro
THE MURDERESS Anne LeRoi moved to Phoenix in 1930 with her friend, Sammy Samuelson, so that Sammy could recover from tuberculosis. They met in Alaska when Sammy was an elementary school teacher and Anne was an X-ray technician. They quickly made the acquaintance with Ruth Judd, a medical secretary who worked at the Grunow Clinic, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Crystal King Interviews Salvador Dalí
From Crystal King, the bestselling author of Feast of Sorrow and The Chef’s Secret, comes a new gothic mythological romance, In the Garden of Monsters, a retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone, inspired by Salvador Dalí’s 1948 visit to the Sacro Bosco Mannerist statue garden. Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carolyn Jack
Character interview by Carolyn Jack THE CHANGING OF KEYS With his father dead, a gifted, fourteen-year-old pianist finds himself sent away from his Caribbean home against his will, to study classical music in the U.S. with a family friend he’ s never met. His first angry, frightened step away from the controlling mother he’ s […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Cynthia Reeves
Cynthia Reeves’s novel The Last Whaler is an elegiac meditation on the will to survive. Tor, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, are stranded during the dark season of 1937-38 at his remote whaling station in the Svalbard archipelago when they misjudge ice conditions and fail to rendezvous […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Michelle McGill-Vargas
AMERICAN GHOUL You can’t kill someone who’s already dead. That’s what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after—allegedly—killing her mistress, Simone Arceaneau. But how could Simone be dead when she was taking visitors shortly before? And why was her house always so dark? Lavina, a recently freed slave, met Simone, a recently undead vampire, by chance […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of After the Red Carpet
“After the Red Carpet is a modern masterpiece and a perfect romance narrative from the more literary side of the book world.” —Readers’ Favorite, 5-star review “Leavy’s writing shines in its ability to delve into the emotional intricacies of a relationship, offering readers a glimpse into the characters’ heartfelt explorations of trust, understanding, and mutual support. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Zoje Stage
DEAR HANNA Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up. Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen years […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lauren Thoman
About You Shouldn’t Be Here: Two strangers search for the truth behind bizarre occurrences no one else dares to discuss—only to discover that they’re connected by secrets that could destroy them both. A thrilling and twisty novel by the acclaimed author of the Mindy’s Book Studio pick I’ll Stop the World. When sixteen-year-old Angie Stewart […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: A Confession by Tessa Jane Fullbright
Heather Webber sat down for an interview with her character Tessa Jane Fullbright from her latest novel, but it turned into a confession… A Certain Kind of Starlight In the face of hardship, two women learn how to rise up again under the bright side of the stars in A Certain Kind of Starlight, the next […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kara H.L. Chen
ASKING FOR A FRIEND This charming YA rom-com follows a strong-willed, ambitious teen as she teams up with her childhood frenemy to start a dating-advice column, perfect for fans of Emma Lord and Gloria Chao. Juliana Zhao is absolutely certain of a few things: 1. She is the world’s foremost expert on love. 2. She is […]
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