Diane Slocum

Diane Slocum

Diane Slocum has been a newspaper reporter and editor and authored an historical book. As a freelance writer, she contributes regularly to magazines and newspapers. She writes features on authors and a column for writers and readers in Lifestyle magazine. She is assigned to write interviews of first-time novelists and bestselling authors for Authorlink®
Lori Ostlund Debut Novel Deals with Life After the Parade

Lori Ostlund Debut Novel Deals with Life After the Parade

After the Parade, Lori Ostlund, Scribner–Aaron Englund’s life is divided – before and after the parade, before and after his mother leaves and before and after he leaves Walter. Trying to make it on his own in San Francisco, he finds he has to make sense of his years of growing up in small-town Minnesota . . .

Kitchens of the Great Midwest Serves a Babette’s Feast

Kitchens of the Great Midwest Serves a Babette’s Feast

Kitchens of the Great Midwest, J. Ryan Stradal , Penguin Publishing — Lars Thorvald got teased a lot growing up, smelling like the lutefisk his family prepared for the Scandinavians in Duluth. His daughter, Eva, also was tormented by her classmates, but her passion was growing chocolate habaneros, powerful enough to be a weapon.

Debut Novel: Strong Women Do What it Takes to Survive

Debut Novel: Strong Women Do What it Takes to Survive

The Shore, Sara Taylor — The Shore follows The Lumsden/Day family and other inhabitants of the islands off the coast of Virginia for over a century from the 1800s and into the future. From the very rich to the barely scraping by, they all encounter hardships of survival, whether from a spouse, parent or the supernatural world.

Lithuanian Women With Wings Struggle to Survive

Lithuanian Women With Wings Struggle to Survive

An interview with Michele Young-Stone, author of Above Us Only Sky (Simon and Schuster, 3 March, 2015)–All Prudence Vilkas knows about her heritage is that she was born with wings. They were removed at her birth, and only a few years later, her mother removes her more completely from the Vilkas heritage by running off from her husband. Only much later, Prudence learns of her Lithuanian grandfather and German grandmother.

Angelina Mirabella’s Debut Novel Wrestles with Identity-2015

Angelina Mirabella’s Debut Novel Wrestles with Identity-2015

  An exclusive Authorlink interview with Angelina Mirabella, Author of The Sweetheart By Diane Slocum March 2015 The Sweetheart by Angelina Mirabella Buy this Book at Amazon.com Leonie Putzkammer is an awkward teenager whose best friend, Cynthia, is the opposite. The...

Nurses Endure WWII Captivity in Solomon’s Debut Novel-2015

Nurses Endure WWII Captivity in Solomon’s Debut Novel-2015

A Pledge of Silence by Flora J. Solomon Buy this Book at Amazon.com Nurses Endure WWII Captivity in Solomon's Debut Novel-2015 An exclusive Authorlink interview with Flora J. Solomon, Author of A Pledge of Silence By Diane Slocum February 2015 As the US entry into...