What is your debut novel about? In the fictitious small-town of Green Branch, SC, in the 1960s and 70s, two first cousins, Eli Winfield and Delia Green, grow up across the street from each other. After a life-altering childhood accident…
A Star is Bored is fiction. It really is. But it’s also inspired by author Byron Lane’s years as personal assistant to Carrie Fisher, and there’s something uniquely delightful about getting to go on this ride knowing that the essence…
Africaville, author Jeffrey Colvin’s ambitious and impressive debut novel, explores the history of the town of Africville, Nova Scotia. Settled in the 1700s on a bluff outside modern-day Halifax by former enslaved peoples from the Caribbean and US, it was…
Jane Stanton Hitchcock‘s novel Bluff was the Winner of the 2019 Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing. The Strand Magazine says: “Not only can Hitchcock stage a murder mystery that’s as comedic as it is clever, but…
The opportunity to interview bestselling author Amy Meyerson couldn’t have come at a better time. Opening her latest page-turner, The Imperfects, was like running from a world falling apart to a twinkling pink-and-blue bound kingdom, where intrigue, sibling rivalry (oh-so…
John Fram’s amazing debut, The Bright Lands, came to my attention when Kelly J. Ford pitched it to me as “Friday Night Lights meets Stephen King, but queer.” I made grabby hands at her, and she allowed me to read…