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Launch: The Gospel of Caiaphas by Nicole Diamond Austin

INTERVIEWED BY LESLIE S. LOWE Nicole Diamond Austin is a lifelong lover of books and storytelling in all forms. After graduating from Yale ...Read Article

Writing a medieval mystery or thriller? Here are sources on medieval crime

BY B.J. SEDLOCK Are you thinking of writing a mystery or thriller set in medieval times?  Here are some print and online ...Read Article

Launch: Jeanine Boulay’s What Keeps Us

INTERVIEWED BY MALLY BECKER Jeanine Boulay is a writer and educator interested in the connections across time and place. She is the recipient ...Read Article

Launch: Kathleen J. Waites’s The Faithful Ones

INTERVIEW BY DAVID CONNON Kathleen J. Waites is a Philadelphia native, former nun, scholar, author, and professor emerita at Nova Southeastern University in ...Read Article

Pasadena’s Japan: Crown City by Naomi Hirahara

BY LOUISE TREE Naomi Hirahara is a mystery writer who has also written a non-fiction work on the Japanese gardeners of Southern California. ...Read Article

Live, love, resist: Fireflies in Winter by Eleanor Shearer

BY KATE BRAITHWAITE In 1790s Nova Scotia, a young woman is on trial. Who is she and what is she accused of? From ...Read Article

Despite Our Differences: When We Were Divided by Liz Flanagan

BY CLARE RHODEN Liz Flanagan, a British novelist from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, is best known for her fast-paced teenage fiction and highly ...Read Article

Passion and Power in the World of Art: The Secret Courtesan by Kerry Chaput

BY SHAUNA MCINTYRE Women artists of the past are rarely given the credit they are due. For centuries, many art historians believed women ...Read Article

A new take on Mary Shelley’s legendary summer: The Glowing Hours, by Leila Siddiqui

BY ELIZABETH CRACHIOLO Leila Siddiqui has always been fascinated by the summer in 1816 when Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori ...Read Article

The House of Barbary by Isabelle Schuler: A retelling of Bluebeard

BY LISA REDMOND Isabelle Schuler is a talented author making a splash in the area of feminist historical fiction; she is also a ...Read Article