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BY MYFANWY COOK Vanessa Croft, Janet Rich Edwards, Anna Fitzgerald Healy & Angela Shupe draw readers’ attention to the details of their characters’ ...Read Article

BY LEE ANN ECKHARDT SMITH Of all her books, no other novel means as much to author Alexandra Bell as The White Octopus ...Read Article

BY LOUISE TREE Michael Robert Liska’s debut novel, Alice, or the Wild Girl (Skyhorse, 2025) opens with Henry Bird, a lieutenant in charge ...Read Article

BY J. LYNN ELSE The very mention of “Cleopatra” conjures up powerful images and legendary tales. Yet, behind her words and famous deeds, ...Read Article

INTERVIEW BY CAROLYN NEWTON Elaine Stock writes historical fiction about courageous people who take chances because life is full of challenges, and we ...Read Article

INTERVIEW BY KATHERINE KIRKPATRICK Maren Halvorsen is a historian, and a former college lecturer and administrator. She has written for Chiron Review, October ...Read Article

INTERVIEW BY LESLIE S. LOWE Cynthia Elder is a novelist, poet and nonprofit leader. Her two-book novel, Tales of the Sea, was recently ...Read Article

INTERVIEW BY KEIRA MORGAN Catherine Mathis was born in Berlin to a pair of spies and grew up in Washington D.C. She ...Read Article

BY ELIZABETH K. CORBETT Kristina McMorris’s The Girls of Good Fortune (Sourcebooks, 2025) tells the story of Celia Hart, a half-Chinese woman in 1880...Read Article

BY ELISABETH LENCKOS A certain cold and stormy night in the summer of 1816, which Mary Shelley, later Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, ...Read Article