Posts by Christina Consolino
Celebrating Women’s Fiction Day!
UPDATE! Sally S. and Jennifer S. are winners! I’ll contact them via email. Thanks for participating! Welcome to Women’s Fiction Day! In 2019, the Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA) established the day “to celebrate the authors, stories, readers, bookstores, and fans of the women’s fiction genre.” I’m a grateful member of WFWA, and I am…
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I’m a sucker for a good love story, so when I had the chance to read fellow 2021 Debuts author Casey Dembowski‘s When We’re Thirty, I jumped at the chance and fell in love with the story and Casey’s characters. And I’m not the only one. Meredith Schorr wrote, “This delightful contemporary romance stole my…
Read MoreTemperature Gauge
My husband is a hugger. (I’ve known this since I met him.) I am not a hugger, though with my children, I am. Those children seem to be the exception, and what I’ve noticed over the last several years especially—as I approach menopause and all the delights that go with it—is that I have very…
Read MoreAn Interview with Kate Campbell
Debut author Kate Campbell started writing her novel, The Whisper of Calaresp, in 2012, the same year I began my own. So, I felt a kinship with her right from the beginning. Come to find out she’s an animal lover, blogger, and book reviewer, and I’m convinced that if we met someday in person, we’d…
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Fellow 2021 Debuts author Amanda Johnson and I have something in common: we both put off the pursuit of a dream for something practical that could make money. For me, that was writing. For her, that was acting. But now, Amanda is an actor and a writer with “twenty years of storytelling experience” in different…
Read MoreWomen’s Fiction Day 2021 is Coming Soon!
Women’s Fiction Day is coming on June 8, 2021! What is Women’s Fiction Day, you ask? Let me tell you! In 2019, the Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA) established the day “to celebrate the authors, stories, readers, bookstores, and fans of the women’s fiction genre.” I’m a grateful member of WFWA, and I am thrilled…
Read MoreAn Interview with Lee Reinecke
In April I received an email from an author requesting I read and review her book. So many generous folks have helped spread the word about my own writing, so I happily said yes. And I’m glad I did. Peeling Away the Facade: The Long Shadow of Child Abuse is Lee Reinecke‘s first book, a…
Read MoreAn Interview with M. Lee Musgrave
Author interviews allow me to meet all sorts of people, which is one of the reasons I like to conduct them. M. Lee Musgrave, fellow 2021 Debuts author, is the sort of person I might never have crossed paths with, though we’d have a lot to discuss. M. Lee is a hiker, artist, curator, and…
Read MoreAn Interview with Sarahlyn Bruck
I crossed paths with author Sarahlyn Bruck when an author acquaintance mentioned Sarahlyn’s Author Spotlights. I moseyed over to her website and got caught up reading all about the authors she has featured. And when I spied her tagline “writer │ reader │ runner”—three words I would use to describe myself—I knew I had to…
Read MoreAn Interview with Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Like many of her fellow 2021 Debuts authors, Jaime Lynn Hendricks has been writing stories for years—essentially since she was a child. But her writing these days is not for kids. Michele Campbell described this debut novel, Finding Tessa, as “a dark tale of abuse, revenge and redemption, full of head-spinning, mind-boggling, Gone Girl-sized twists,”…
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