Category: Interviews
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Interview: Netflix’s Geek Girl on her new adult novel
How does it feel to have an upcoming Netflix series? Does autism help you write better? Interveiw: CASSANDRA IN REVERSE by Holly Smale (MIRA; Original edition, 6 June 2023) "It’s incredible, and - without wanting to sound like a total cheeseball - there hasn’t been a day in the last decade where I haven’t been grateful for my luck. Writing is a tough business, and I’m fully aware of how rare my situation is." See full interview.
Interview: Mitch Albom Has Questions for God
Interview: The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Mitch Albom, Harper - In a forthcoming AUTHORLINK audio/video interview, the best-selling author of 'Tuesdays with Morrie', MITCH ALBOM, talks about his latest work of fiction, THE STRANGER IN THE LIFEBOAT (Harper, November 2021). He also discusses his writing process and how it helped his grief when his daughter, Chika, passed away from an incurable disease at seven.
Interview: Kittle’s Morning in This Broken World
How can I make my writing better? “You can make it better later. First, you have to make it exist.” Just like anything else in the world, you only get better at it by doing it," says Katrina Kittle, author of Morning in This Broken World. Read the full interview.
Authorlink Chat: Lin-Greenberg on her debut novel
You are here, Karin Lin-Greenberg, Counterpoint – Karin Lin-Greenberg’s debut novel You Are Here is set in a deteriorating, soon-to-be shut-down Mall in Albany.
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Authorlink Chat: Women Slaves rebel against forced pregnancies
Authorlink Chat: Night Wherever We Go, Tracey Rose Peyton, Ecco – Six women are a struggling Texas plantation’s only slaves. They labor in the cotton fields and carry out other daily chores, but it isn’t enough to keep the farm thriving.
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Authorlink Chat: Huang’s Novel A Deeply Personal Story
Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang, Dutton – Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.
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Authorlink Chat: Claire McMillan on The Alchemy of a Blackbird
Alchemy of a Blackbird, Claire McMillan, Simon & Schuster – We chat with Claire here at AUTHORLINK about the inspiration behind the story, the influence of the Tarot, and the painting ‘The Call’ by Remedios Caro, a Spanish- Mexican modernist painter.
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Authorlink Talk: Herman Writes to Discover What Happens Next
The Kudzu Queen, Mimi Herman , Regal House – In Mimi Herman’s The Kudzu Queen, 15-year-old Mattie experiences first love, social inequities, and her best friend’s tragedy all while confronting James R. Cullowee, the “Kudzu King,” whose true character is slowly revealed.
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Authorlink Talk: Tragedies Force Woman to Find Resilience
Go as a River, Shelley Read, Speigel & Graus – A chance meeting on a street corner changes the course of 17-year-old Victoria Nash’s life. Wilson Moon, a young Native American, has just drifted into the small Colorado farming town of Iola near where Victoria’s family grows their famous Nash peaches.
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Author Talk: Russian mother and biracial daughter spar over selfhood
Interview: A Country You Can Leave, Asale Angel-Ajani, Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Lara and her mother, Yevgenia, never stay in one place for long. Yevgenia is a Russian immigrant with strong opinions about life. Sixteen-year-old Lara’s absent father was a Black musician.
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Book Review: I Have Some Questions for You
Book Review: Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions for You starts with the return of Bodie Kane, film professor and podcaster, to Granby, the New Hampshire boarding school of her youth, to teach a short course in podcasting to high schoolers.
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Author Talk: Paul Vidich on the spy novel, Beirut Station
Interview: Beirut Station, Paul Viditch, Pegasus Crime – A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, BEIRUT STATION follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level, Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark truth that puts her life at risk.
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Author Talk: Nancy Crochiere, on Graceland
Interview: Graceland, Nancy Crochiere, Avon/Harper Collins – Nancy Crochiere delighted readers with her humorous and relatable accounts of family life for thirteen years in her newspaper column, “The Mother Load.”
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