What is your book about? My book is about a young widow named Jane Wunderly who is traveling to Egypt in 1926. Jane wants to see the pyramids and the dig sites and her Aunt Millie just wants to escape…
Jan Eliasberg is an award-winning film and television director as well as a prolific screenwriter. Her debut novel Hannah’s War is a literary thriller about a gifted Austrian-Jewish physicist whose seminal work on nuclear fission is co-opted by the Nazi…
This interview with Elizabeth Wetmore about her debut novel, Valentine, originally appeared on A Mighty Blaze. We at Dead Darlings are delighted to share it as part of our Virtual Author Tour. Give us the elevator pitch for your book. …
“For potboilers, nothing comes close to Temper. There’s violence here, but it’s not only physical; it’s emotional and psychological, even intellectual.” –The New York Times Book Review What is your book about? Temper (Scout Press/Simon & Schuster, paperback April 2020)…
John Vercher’s debut, Three-Fifths, is a riveting crime story told with touches of poetry, razor-sharp characterizations, and the sort of cinematic pacing that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s also a powerful narrative about family, friendship, and…
If I had to recommend only one book this year, it would hands down be Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips. This beautiful and atmospheric novel set on Kamchatka, a peninsula in the east of Russia, opens with the abduction of…