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.
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®
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.
Interview: The Catch Asks How Well Do We Know Our Parents?
The Catch, Alison Fairbrother, Random House – Ellie’s father had four children by three wives, but she always knew she was his favorite. At least, until he died and left her a gaudy tie rack instead of his cherished baseball.
Interview: Story of Witches Inspires Deep Thought
Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings, Harper Collins – Josephine’s mother disappeared when she was 14. No one knew what happened, but the conjectures ranged from suspicions that she was murdered to that she was a witch.
