Interview: The Housekeepers, Alex Hay, Graydon House – The master of the house has just died, and his daughter has taken over.
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®
INTERVIEW: Neighborhood Secrets Turn Block Party to Tragedy
Who is the victim of Day’s Block Party? Interview – The Block Party, Jamie Day, St Martins Press – The exclusive Alton Road cul-de-sac Block Party is always a big deal, but no one would have guessed what kind of a big deal this year’s party would turn into.
Authorlink Chat: Women Slaves rebel against forced pregnancies
Authorlink Chat: Night Wherever We Go, Tracey Rose Peyton, Ecco – Six women are a struggling Texas plantation’s only slaves. They labor in the cotton fields and carry out other daily chores, but it isn’t enough to keep the farm thriving.
Authorlink Talk: Tragedies Force Woman to Find Resilience
Go as a River, Shelley Read, Speigel & Graus – A chance meeting on a street corner changes the course of 17-year-old Victoria Nash’s life. Wilson Moon, a young Native American, has just drifted into the small Colorado farming town of Iola near where Victoria’s family grows their famous Nash peaches.
Author Talk: Russian mother and biracial daughter spar over selfhood
Interview: A Country You Can Leave, Asale Angel-Ajani, Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Lara and her mother, Yevgenia, never stay in one place for long. Yevgenia is a Russian immigrant with strong opinions about life. Sixteen-year-old Lara’s absent father was a Black musician.
Author Talk: Mother searches for children sold during slavery
River Sing Me Home, Eleanor Shearer, Berkley – Britain’s emancipation of its Caribbean slaves made little difference in Rachel’s life. She had no choice but to continue working at the plantation where she had been enslaved.
Interview: Rural Indian Woman Fights Against Oppression
Interview: The Bandit Queens, Parini Shroff, Ballantine Books – Geeta’s husband, Ramesh, disappeared. Rumor is she killed him.
Interview: Teenage Sisters on Mission to Resist Nazi Invaders
Interview: Angels of the Resistance, Noelle Salazar, Mira – Sisters Lien and Elif Vinke are typical teenagers in the Netherlands in 1940, except for two great tragedies that struck their family.
Interview: Two Children Locked in Attic Decades Apart
Interview: Twelve-year-old Dikembe is taken from his home in Africa during desperate times in the early 1900s to live in London as a ward of Sir Richard Babbington, a famous explorer.
Interview: Son Returns to China to Search for Father
A Map for the Missing, Belinda Huijuan Tang, Penguin Press – Yitian is teaching mathematics in America when he receives word that his father has gone missing in China.
