The Floating World, C. Morgan Babst, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill – In the chaos of Katrina, the Boisdorè family broke up in more ways than one.
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®
Chaotic Week in Pre-War New York Brings Irish Brothers to Brink of Disaster
The World of Tomorrow, Brendan Mathews, Little Brown and Company – Francis and Michael Dempsey join their older brother, Martin, in America in June of 1939.
Italian Teen Learns Life Lessons in Suburban Los Angeles
Italian Teen Learns Life Lessons in Suburban Los Angeles An exclusive Authorlink interview By Diane Slocum November, 2017 Things That Happened Before the Earthquake By Chiara Barzini Buy this Book at Amazon.com Things That Happened Before the Earthquake, Chiara...
Brothers’ Life-Long Feud Leads To Murder
The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo, Ian Stansel, Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt – Silas Van Loy murders his older brother, Frank, and takes off on horseback through the hills of coastal Northern California.
Four Generation of Displaced Palestinian Family Seek Their True Home
Salt Houses, Hala Alyan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Salma Yacoub, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren call a lot of places home. And for that reason, many times they feel as if no place is their real home.
Tragedy Strikes Acting Students When Life Imitates Art
If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio, Flatiron Books Macmillan – Seven acting students made the cut into their fourth year at Dellecher Classical Conservatory. Their on-stage Shakespearian roles have become predictable
Love and Death and Setting Things Right in Old San Francisco
The Half Wives, Stacia Pelletier, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – In 1883 San Francisco, Henry and Marilyn Plageman lost their little boy and most of their reason for living. Henry’s cause became saving the cemetery where Jack is buried.
Ten-Year-Old Deals with Death, Sleepwalking and Rabbit Cakes
Rabbit Cakes, Annie Hartnett, Tin House Books – In Annie Hartnett’s debut novel, Rabbit Cake, ten-year-old Elvis lost her mother in a sleep-swimming accident. Or was it an accident?
Young Teens Attempt to Breach The Impossible Fortress
The Impossible Fortress, Jason Rekulak, Simon & Schuster – In Jason Rekulak’s novel, The Impossible Fortress, young teens in a 1987 New Jersey working-class neighborhood set goals to break into several impossible places.
Teenager’s Choices Echo Throughout Her Life
History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund, Grove Atlantic – In Emily Fridlund’s History of Wolves, a teenage girl raised on a failed commune in the north woods of Minnesota feels like she doesn’t fit in at home or at school.
