Meet Nancy Yeager March 20, 2023 249 1. Your main characters in When We Were Friends are Frannie and Lexi. If you could meet them, what would you say to them? First, I’d tell Frankie and Lexi how proud I am of the journey they took to heal their friendship and repair their lives. Then I’d invite them to their favorite hangout, Patty’s Diner,
Meet Lily Black March 19, 2023 240 1. In your novel, Storm of Attraction, your heroine is a librarian by day and karate instructor by night. What made you think to give her such different vocations? I think many of us wonder what else we could be, what unlocked potential we have inside us. It’s not that we aren’t grateful for the good
Ten Great Books with Unreliable Narrators March 17, 2023 203 by Jamie Killen Enjoy having serious doubts about whether your narrator is being totally honest with you? Then check out these books with untrustworthy POV characters. Some are lying, some are insane, and some just don’t really know what’s going on: 1. The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp 2. You Should Have
Short Story: The Hymns We Used to Sing March 16, 2023 333 The Hymns We Used to Sing by Claire Matturro (previously published at Topical Poetry) We were civilized as we walked.The food we’d taken with us, mostlyCheese, bread and dried meats, we shared.There was water, and as we moved along,Some of the children sangHymns and patriotic songs.No one complained. We were kind to each other.Then the food
Preorder: Yeager’s Choice March 15, 2023 240 Yeager’s Choice is now available for preorder! Reserve your copy today! Milton “Cujo” Quattlebaum died on the side of mountain in Mexico. Or so Abel Yeager believed. Then Victor Ruiz gets a call from the State Department. The pilot is alive and incarcerated in a Mexican prison. This would be good news except for the
$1.99 Sale: When We’re Thirty March 14, 2023 261 When We’re Thirty by Casey Dembowski is on sale March 14th – April 1st for only $1.99. Two friends. One pact. The performance of their lives. Hannah Abbott is stuck in a dead-end relationship and at a job she loves but that barely pays the bills. The four walls of her tiny New York City
Meet Anna E. Collins March 13, 2023 273 1. Your creativity comes through in many ways—in addition to being an author, you’re also a painter and a woodworker. What kinds of things do you create? Do you construct furniture, or do you make smaller pieces? Or both? Yes, I’ve always enjoyed the process of creating in more areas than one. When I was
Meet Stefanie Spangler March 12, 2023 281 1. Your novel, Dark Designs, places two twin witch sisters in rural Illinois. What drew you to that location? I live in Central Illinois, so part of choosing the setting was just writing what I know. When people think of Illinois, they tend to think of Chicago, but Illinois beyond Chicago is really quite different, and I
Muscle Memory March 10, 2023 220 A fictional short story inspired by Rachael Maggio by David Rawding Rachael worked chalk into her palms and clapped her hands together generating a plume of white powder. She stepped through the trailing dust and approached the thick rope hanging from the warehouse rafters supporting the ceiling of her gym. “You got this, Coach.”
Meet Karissa Laurel March 9, 2023 504 1. Readers may know you best for your Norse Chronicles series, but your newest novel, Touch of Smoke, uses a brand new mythology. What drew you to the change? My answer to why I chose this new mythology for Touch of Smoke, without giving away spoilers, is the same answer to why I chose Norse mythology for
Preorder: All That Is Sacred March 8, 2023 378 All That Is Sacred is now available for preorder! Reserve your copy today! When Lynn and her husband set out for a weekend retreat to repair their rocky marriage, icy roads lead to a fatal collision that ends Lynn’s life. Stranded between the physical world and the afterlife, Lynn experiences the grief of her loved