The Bookseller, Cynthia Swanson, Harper Collins–As Cynthia Swanson’s novel The Bookseller begins we are with Kitty Miller, a thirty-eight-year-old single bookseller, when she wakes up in a bed that is not her own and discovers an alternate life in which she is a married mother of three children.
Days of Awe, Lauren Fox, a tale about a woman’s attempt to piece her life together following the death of her best friend.
The Sweetheart Deal, Polly Dugan, Little, Brown and Company — Polly Dugan’s novel THE SWEETHEART DEAL begins with an intriguing premise: What if you promised your best friend that if he died you would marry his wife?
The Poor Children, April L. Ford, Santa Fe Writers Project — They bit, they kicked, sometimes they pulled out their own hair in such chunks they left hickey-like marks on their scalps that had to be washed and disinfected and covered with gauze.
The Children’s Crusade, Ann Packer, Scribner — From a young age Ann Packer knew what it meant to be a writer. Her mother was a fiction writer and was a professor at Stanford.
An interview with Kelly Fordon, Author of Garden for the Blind (Wayne State University Press, 1 April 2015)–In her collection of linked stories, GARDEN FOR THE BLIND, author Kelly Fordon explores questions of race and privilege through the experiences of Alice Townley, a resident of an affluent suburb outside of Detroit. As the story begins Alice loses her sister to an accident.
An exclusive Authorlink interview with Katherine Center, Author of HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS By Ellen Birkett Morris May 2015 Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center Buy this Book at Amazon.com May 2015 In her novel HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS, Katherine Center...
An exclusive Authorlink interview with Emma Hooper By Ellen Birkett Morris Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper Buy this Book at Amazon.com April 2015 In Emma Hooper’s novel ETTA AND OTTO AND RUSSELL AND JAMES the reader accompanies...
An Italian Wife by Ann Hood Buy this Book at Amazon.com An Authorlink interview with Ann Hood, author of AN ITALIAN WIFE ( W. W. Norton & Company). Ann Hood began her apprenticeship as a writer as a close reader. Growing up in a blue collar mill town in Rhode Isl...
Tara Ison Explores How to Be a Writer An exclusive Authorlink interview with the author of Reeling Through Life By Ellen Birkett Morris Reeling Through Life by Tara Ison Buy this Book at Amazon.com February 2015 Movies have created entire aspects of myself. They’ve...
