Godshot, Chelsea Bieker, Catapult – Fourteen-year-old Lacey May, her mother and her grandmother Cherry are faithful members of Pastor Vern’s church in the small town of Peaches in California’s Central Valley.
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®
Courtney Maum: on Before and After the Book Deal
Before and After the Book Deal, Courtney Maum, Catapult – The subtitle for this book is A Writer’ Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book. Maum includes comments from nearly 200 authors, agents, editors, and others involved in publishing and producing.
Interview: Moxon Merges Perception and Reality in a Complex Tale
An Audacious Interplay of Perception and Reality in a Complex, Intriguing Tale – A street priest with a neon chapel, streets filled with released “loonies”, including one who babbles about his lost boy, a flickering young man (he’s there and then he’s not), the crime boss who ran things for the absentee crime boss, his brother/sister team of sneak and fighter (or was there a brother?), the circus with the beautiful, leaping aerialist (without/with a beard), the circus owner with the ritual of bird or spade (neither a good choice).
Interview: Racial Conflicts Follow Black Family for Generations
Africaville, Jeffrey Colvin, – Amistad. Kath Ella grew up in a black community on a rocky bluff in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the early 1900s. It is a tightly-knit community settled by families going back to the 1700s, whose ancestors ranged from American slaves to Jamaican rebels.
Palmer’s The Rabbit Queen Asks What Is Truth
Mary Toft, Dexter Palmer, Penguin Random House – One day in 1726, Mary Toft started giving birth to rabbits. Well, parts of rabbits, confounding the local physician, John Howard, and even physicians sent by the king from London to investigate this strange phenomenon.
Metropolitan Stories Reveal Magicical Life in the Museum
Metropolitan Stories, Christine Coulson, Penguin Random House –
Traumatized Syrian Refugees Must Find Each Other – and Themselves
The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri, Ballantine Books – Nuri and Afra and their young son live on a lovely hill overlooking Aleppo. Nuri and his cousin, Mustafa, tend bees in the fragrant fields of flowers nearby. Then war comes.
Cantankerous Characters Redefine Family, Challenge the System
Stay and Fight, Madeline ffitch, Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Helen comes to homestead in Appalachian Ohio with her boyfriend, Shane, who deserts her before they face the first winter.
Characters Are The Travelers Through Life’s Relationships
The Travelers, Regina Porter, Hogarth – The Travelers tells stories of mostly interconnected families starting in 1946 with “the man James” when he was a four-year-old boy who wanted to know why people need sleep.
Gothic Romance: Love, Murder, Ghoulish Haunt Black Woman
The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Sara Collins, Harper Collins – Frannie grew up a slave on a Jamaican plantation. Her master, Langton, chose her as his assistant in his experiments on cadavers.
