My special guest is John Burnham Schwartz, the acclaimed author of The Commoner, Claire Marvel, Reservation Road, and Bicycle Days. Northwest Corner is set twelve years after a tragic accident…
Synopsis: It was 1860 and according to that year’s census, there were more than four million slaves in the United States. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln would issue…
Synopsis: David Gurney is a retired New York City homicide detective who has moved upstate with his wife Madeleine to a fifty-acre country paradise complete with surrounding woods, a pond,…
Today Jan Marquart is my special guest author! She has penned eight books, including Echoes from the Womb, about resolving mother-daughter conflicts, complete with writing prompts, and The Mindful Writer.…
Synopsis: Edna Leigh Casey prefers to be known as simply “Casey.” Named for a great-aunt, Casey is, at twenty-six, too young to be known as Edna. She is also ten…
Emily Chenoweth is my special guest. She is the author of Hello Goodbye, her first novel. Hello Goodbye is a poignant look at a week in the life of eighteen-year-old…
Synopsis: Lenora Stone is a thirty-eight-year-old photographer who has worked for Baltimore Scene, a magazine about local events and personalities, for the past ten years. Her demanding boss, Dawna, is…
Connie Briscoe is the best-selling author of seven works of fiction, one novella, and one nonfiction book. Money Can’t Buy Love is the story of Lenora Stone, a thirty-eight-year-old photographer…
Synopsis: Jedidiah Rogers is the master of Moss Grove, a sprawling plantation north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is a kind, yet pragmatic man who has always treated his slaves…
Synopsis: Ellie and John became friends when she was just eight years old. Two years older, John was raised by Maidy and Paud after the deaths of his own parents.…
My special guest is author Carole Eglash-Kosoff,, author of When Stars Align, the searing story of an ex-slave, Thaddeus, and the woman he loves, Amy, who is white. It is…
Synopsis: Frances traveled from her Georgia home to Miami to attend the wedding of a friend. After graduating from college, Frances had taken a job as a bank teller and…
Synopsis: Expiation: 1. Definition [noun] compensation for a wrong; to make amends or reparation for (wrongdoing or guilt); atone for; satisfaction 2. To pay the penalty of: Suffer for; the…
Today my special guest is author Greg Messel. The action in his second novel, Expiation, plays out amid major news events reported by the main character, Dan. Writing for a…
Synopsis: Margaret Robison has lived an extraordinary life. Born in 1935, she grew up in Cairo, Georgia, the daughter of an emotionally distant mother. Margaret was a tomboy of sorts.…
Synopsis: Isolde “Izzy” Brilliant’s thirty-ninth birthday is rapidly approaching. A former hedge fund manager with an MBA, she was laid off, along with many colleagues, but provided a generous severance…
Synopsis: Cookie grew up in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she was the homecoming and prom queen, and voted most popular girl in her high school. But after graduation she fled to…
Author Hugh Aaron’s collection of short stories certainly lives up to its name: The included works were drafted over a sixty-six-year time span, the earliest dating back to when he…
Synopsis: Cascom Mountain in New Hampshire has always figured prominently in Mary Hall’s life. She spent summers there in the home that belonged to her parents, not far from the…