Category: Written
INTERVIEW: Neighborhood Secrets Turn Block Party to Tragedy
Who is the victim of Day’s Block Party? Interview – The Block Party, Jamie Day, St Martins Press – The exclusive Alton Road cul-de-sac Block Party is always a big deal, but no one would have guessed what kind of a big deal this year’s party would turn into.
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Interview: Wallace explores a love for mysterious
Interview: This Isn’t Going to End Well, Daniel Wallace, Algonquin Books – This Isn’t Going to End Well Explores Influence and Identity
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Authorlink Chat: Quitter’s Paradise Guards Family Secrets
Authorlink Chat: A Quitter’s Paradise, Elysha Chang – In A QUITTER’S PARADISE, the darkly humorous debut by bold, new voice Elysha Chang, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death. . .
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Authorlink Chat: Crossland on The Quiet Part Out Loud
Authorlink Chat: The Quiet Part Out Loud, Deborah Crossland, Simon & Schuster – For fans of You’ve Reached Sam and A Heart in a Body in the World, this searing and heart-rending teen novel follows an ex-couple as they struggle to reunite in the wake of a devastating earthquake.
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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 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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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: Overby Explores Tech World in The Cyclone Release
Interview: The Cyclone Release, Bruce Overby, Madville Publishing – Driven by the adage “write what you know” and drawing from his own experience living and working in what is now known as Silicon Valley, Bruce Overby offers an intimate look into the exciting world of tech and the personal lives of the people who drive that world.
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Author Interview: Arrested Song by Irena Karafilly
Interview: Author Interview: Arrested Song by Irena Karafilly, – ARRESTED SONG is everything: the mundanity of Greek village life, a WW2 story of occupation, resistance, espionage, and survival. It’s a love story many times over,
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