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.
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: 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.
Interview: Black Author Seeks His Voice in a Vast Whiteness
Interview: Greenland, David Santos Donaldson – Kipling Starling has three weeks to rewrite his novel about E.M. Forester and his lover, Mohammed Ed Adl into Mohammed’s point of view so he boards himself up in his basement vowing not to come out until he is finished.
Interview: Mayor Concocts Elaborate Lie to Save His Town
Interview: The Patron Saints of Second Chances, Christine Simon, Atria Books – If the plumbing in the tiny village of Prometto, Italy, isn’t fixed, all the residents will have to move out. The cost of the repairs is enormous.
Interview: Young Chinese Girl Fights for Existence in 1880’s
Interview: Four Treasures of the Sky, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Flatiron Books — Daiyu was named after a tragic figure in a popular story. She lived in a small village in China until her parents disappeared when she was 12.
