Dava Shastri’s Last Day, Kirthana Ramisetti, Grand Central Publishing – Dava Shastri spent her life making a name for herself creating foundations to help musical artists, struggling women and other organizations devoted to helping people.
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: Young, Biracial Woman Seeks to be Seen in the World
Interview: Win Me Something, Kyle Lucia Wu, Tin House – Willa Chen’s parents divorced when she was young, remarried, and had more children.
Interview: Riots Inspire Debut About Monticello Refugees
My Monticello, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, Henry Holt & Company – In six stories in her debut collection Johnson studies racism, belonging, a sense of home.
Courtesan and Beggar Struggle Through Decades in Oppressed Korea
Interview: The story begins on a snowy mountain in Korea where a starving hunter saves a Japanese officer from a tiger. Later, a young girl named Jade is sold by her poor mother to a famous madame with a courtesan school.
Interview: Epic Debut Novel Traces Family Slave Trade Through Modern Day
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Harper Collins – Ailey Garfield is the descendant of Africans brought to America as slaves plus Native American and white ancestry.
Interview: Three Abducted Girls Struggle With a Sadistic Torturer
Dear Miss Metropolitan, Carolyn Ferrell, Henry Holt – Three girls, Fern, Gwin and Jesenia, are kidnapped and taken to a ramshackle house where they are held captive for ten years by a man they know as Boss Man.
Interview: Aspiring Singer Stays True To Her Art
Song in Ursa Major, Emma Brodie, Knopf – Jane Quinn and her band, The Breakers, are thrown into the spotlight when the headliner is a no-show for their island’s 1969 annual festival.
Interview: Grieving Designer Finds New Life in Unlikely Relationship
The Very Nice Box, Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Ava was already devoted to her work designing boxes for a home goods company – but she had Andie. When Ava’s parents and Andie died in a car wreck that she barely survived, she closed down her world even more.
Intreview: Celestial Magic of Former Slaves Helps Find a Murderer
The Conductors, Nicole Glover, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – When Hetty and Benjy were conductors on the Underground Railroad much of their success was due to their ability to use magic to get the escaping slaves and themselves out of sticky situations.
Interview: Impersonation Gets Complicated in The Summer Job
The Summer Job, Lizzy Dent, G P. Putnam Sons – In her 30s, Elizabeth “Birdy” Finch is at loose ends and doesn’t know where to turn next. Her friend, Heather, has problems of her own, but at least she has a career as a top-notch sommelier.
