Posts by Christina Consolino
Knocked Out by Love: An Interview with Kelly Ohlert
The 2021 Debut group was invaluable for me as a first-time author, so part of my interview strategy is to get authors from other debut groups and invite them to be a part of this series. Kelly Ohlert is one such person, as she’s a member of the 2022 Debut group, and her contemporary romance,…
Read MoreThree Years Ago Today
Three years ago today, I bundled Dad in the car and drove to pick up Mom from where she lived at the time. I looked at Mom and told her we were going on a road trip. That our destination would be a good one. That she’d have a better life. She smiled at me…
Read MoreCharacter is the Foundation of Story: An Interview with Tiffany Yates Martin
When Tiffany Yates Martin agreed to answer questions for this series, I literally did a happy dance, right there, in front of my computer (though no one was around to witness it). I’d been running into her name for years through the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and many of the books I read thanked her…
Read More#ThrowbackThursdayBookstagram: The Hunger Games
I still remember when my good friend Kelsey told me about today’s #ThrowbackThursdayBookstagram feature! “I think you’ll like THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins, but it is, shall we say, a little disturbing.” Why yes, a book that asks, “Could you survive on your own in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you…
Read MoreJust Keep Swimming: An Interview with Cindy Kolbe
Cindy Kolbe and I haven’t known each other long; she contacted me about a week after my mother passed in October, inquiring about an author interview slot. As I opened her email, I knew that my interview calendar was already full for this year (and next! Thank you, friends!). But when I reached the end…
Read MoreIncreasing Personal Connection: An Interview with Amber A. Logan
The writing community is vast, and yet, it’s also very small. And that community is how I get introduced to writers I might not otherwise discover on my own. Author Amber A. Logan is one of those folks; she’s also a freelance editor and university instructor, which means I could have asked her a ton…
Read More#ThrowbackThursdayBookstagram: The Da Vinci Code
My husband (who isn’t on social media, so his opinion shouldn’t count here) will be dismayed at my pick for this week’s #ThrowbackThursdayBookstagram feature! Drumroll, please! It’s THE DA VINCI CODE by Dan Brown. Why would Tim be dismayed? Because he didn’t like the book. “I figured it out too quickly,” he said. But Tim’s…
Read MoreStory Time
Once upon a time not so long ago, there was a woman who wanted to be a writer. Actually, she was a writer, but she didn’t know what to do with her writing, and since she placed her family’s needs and wants above her own, those writings collected dust in a box in a closet…
Read MoreLearning as We Go: An Interview with Diana and Michele of Wine, Women & Words
I am thrilled to have Diana Giovinazzo and Michele Leivas from the podcast Wine, Women & Words here today. This dynamic duo (I’m so lucky to know another one) was gracious enough to have me and my debut novel on their podcast in February, and I knew instantly that I wanted to interview them for…
Read More#ThrowbackThursdayBookstagram: Empire Falls
Welcome back to our #ThrowbackThursdayBookstagram feature! I haven’t posted on this topic since late September, and I’m happy to be back. Up this week is Pulitzer Prize–winning EMPIRE FALLS by Richard Russo. What’s interesting about this book is that I remember buying it at Borders Books in Ann Arbor on East Liberty Street (I still…
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