Posts by Christina Consolino
Just 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…
Read MoreEighteen: Making Memories
Dear Aaron, I had all the plans in the world to begin this letter in September. When that didn’t happen, I moved my goal to early October. Then mid-October. But then, well, you know what occurred: my Mom took a turn for the worse, and I spent her last days with her and then more…
Read MoreLife Lessons from Mom
When I stand in front of the classroom, I always tell my new crop of students two things: I talk way too fast—and I know it—and I get the hiccups often. The same would probably apply here if I were to read this aloud, and today, I give you one more warning—I might not make…
Read MoreAssisting in Other People’s Success: An Interview with Ashley Hasty
Ashley Hasty of Hasty Book List and The Best of Women’s Fiction podcast and I have not met in real life, but Ashley is the sort of person I could have grilled for ages! My interview stops at nine questions, but when she publishes that first book—and it will happen, Ashley!—I will be inviting her…
Read MoreEducation These Days
It’s been a week, friends. A week and then some. And none of the things that have made it “a week” are bad or big or obnoxious, in and of themselves. But all put together? Those little things—computer not working properly (touchpad, touchscreen, keyboard, you know, all the things I use on a daily basis),…
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