K.D. McCrite is another author I’ve learned about via Diane Windsor of Motina Books, and I’m glad I did. So many things that K.D. says resonate with me. According to K.D., she writes “about the people we encounter daily, those ordinary folks who make us laugh and cry while they keep the wheels of life…

This author interview series has allowed me to virtually meet so many authors, many who write psychological thrillers. And author Becca Day falls into that camp. Her debut, The Girl Beyond the Gate, releases in two weeks, and readers are enjoying it immensely. Early reviews call the book everything from “twisty and unputdownable” to “a…

An honest conversation about death is not something many people like to have. But Becky Aud-Jennison of The Death Dialogues Project hopes to change that perspective and “further these conversations globally.”  Part of that mission has turned into a book, Death and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons: Field Notes from the Death…

It’s impossible for me to read the entirety of every book by every author featured in this series before the interview runs. But sometimes, the planets align, and in the case of Jennifer Fawcett‘s eerie debut, Beneath the Stairs, I’m glad they did. This book has been called creepy, unsettling, and thrilling, and I’d agree…

Of all the authors and artists I’ve interviewed (I’m approaching 100 soon!), Carolyne Topdjian holds the record for most interesting author photo. Knowing what I now know about her debut novel and her haunted house (keep reading, please!), the photo makes sense. That debut novel, The Hitman’s Daughter, released a few days ago, and already…

Elizabeth Sumner Wafler is another author whose path I crossed because of Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA). She’s an active member of the organization and has a very specific want for the characters she crafts. She says, “I want you imbued with a sense of hope and possibility–with the magic that can happen when someone…

Vintage clothing has always fascinated me, but not the way it has author Sandra L. Young, whose debut novel, Divine Vintage, was inspired by it! In the story, main character Tess Burton opens a boutique—Divine Vintage—and finds an Edwardian trousseau gown that “opens her mind to channel the prelude to a century-old murder.” If that’s…

Author Rochelle Bradley and I go way back. Okay, well maybe not that far back, but I met her (in person!) shortly after participating in (and becoming a fan of) National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Rochelle’s Fortuna, Texas, series is contemporary romance that readers absolutely love. One reviewer wrote of the first book in the…

We’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but it’s hard not to with Charvet Clark’s Kiss Kiss For Real, which sports one of my favorite covers ever. Colorful and whimsical, it fits this young-adult romance to a T. The book features a “feisty good girl” and an “unattainable bad boy” and is…

In September of last year, one of the most thrilling emails I’ve received to date arrived in my inbox. The message was from Julie John, who wrote, “Nice to meet you! I am going to narrate Rewrite the Stars for Black Rose . . .” I jumped for joy at that point, then sat down…