Interview

Launch: Della Leavitt’s Vivian’s Decision

INTERVIEWED BY REBECCA ROSENBERG After careers in technology and mathematics education, Della Leavitt‘s debut historical novel, Vivian’s Decision (April 2026, She Writes ...Read Article

Launch: Leara Rhodes’ Tybee Rhapsody

INTERVIEW BY M.N. STROH Leara Rhodes is a retired professor emerita from Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia with ...Read Article

Choices and Secrets: Summer of Love by Kerri Maher

BY LEE ANN ECKHARDT SMITH California history, addiction and recovery, winemaking and the hippie culture of the 1960s are all part of Kerri ...Read Article

Launch: Linda Rosen’s Abandoning the Script

INTERVIEW BY KATHERINE MEZZACAPPA Fitness professional turned novelist Linda Rosen, after living most of her life in New Jersey (and only a short ...Read Article

Launch: Barbara Kent Lawrence’s Both Sides of the Pond, My Family’s War: 1933-1946

INTERVIEW BY ELLEN IRWIN Dr. Barbara Kent Lawrence is the author of many articles and nine books, including an award-winning dissertation. A former ...Read Article

Launch: Catherine Hughes’s Therein Lies the Pearl

INTERVIEW BY DAVID CONNON Award-winning author of two historical fiction novels Catherine Hughes has taught American, British, and World Literature at the high ...Read Article

Magic when you least expect it: A Year of Marvelous Ways by Sarah Winman

BY MARILYN PEMBERTON What comes first, the plot, character or location? For Sarah Winman, ‘Characters always come first … but place is also extremely ...Read Article

The Right Season for Amy Ephron’s Unseasonably Cold

BY TRISH MACENULTY When Amy Ephron started out to write her noir-ish 1939 mystery, Unseasonably Cold, (The Sager Group, 2026) she did not expect the ...Read Article

Launch: Maryka Biaggio’s Margery & Me

INTERVIEWED BY MARTHA HOFFMAN Maryka Biaggio is a psychology professor-turned-novelist who brings forgotten lives back into the light. Her work has earned numerous ...Read Article

Launch: Kim Rendfeld’s Duchess of the New Dawn

INTERVIEWED BY J. K. KNAUSS A lifelong fascination with fairy tales and legends set Kim Rendfeld on her quest to write historical fiction. ...Read Article