Interview: Lindsey Drager Author of The Lost Daughter Collective
Dzanc Books FIRST SEVEN LINES: “Come nights, the girl crawls into bed to wait for her father to tell her a tale before sleep. He is down the hall working and she can just make out the sound of rapid typing from beyond his open office door. Because her room is one of the Institute’s […]
Interview: David Leo Rice Author of A Room in Dodge City
Alternating Current FIRST SEVEN LINES: “It’s 6 a.m. I’m lying on a bench in a Bus Station, the only traveler to have gotten off here, staring across the concourse at the shuttered café, imagining it open, myself outfitted with a coffee and two rubbery muffins alone at one of its tables, waiting for the bus […]
Interview: Victoria Capper Author of The Governess by
http://victoriacapper.com FIRST SEVEN LINES: “What was that man doing? Thea instinctively drew back in her seat. Drew back, away from the man coming towards their stationary coach, on a motorbike with a gun over his shoulder. They were pulled up at one of the many road work traffic stops, and he was coming straight towards […]
Interview: Herta Feely Author of Saving Phoebe Murrow
Upper Hand Press FIRST SEVEN LINES: “At the end of the day, as Isabel stepped through the large glass doors of her law office, a strange thing happened. Outside in the cold, she suddenly felt trapped in a bright cone of light. As if some alien spaceship were training its eye on her. Uneasily, she […]
Interview: Michael Merschel Author of Revenge of the Star Survivors
Holiday House FIRST SEVEN LINES: “My situation is desperate. I have crash-landed on an inhospitable world. Communication with my commanders has broken down. My shields have been compromised. I am critically short on vital supplies. I am isolated. Adrift.” Shelf Unbound: What interested you in writing a Middle Grade novel? Michael Merschel: To be honest, […]
Interview: Natriece L. Spicer Author of The Journey Through a Thousand Lies
FIRST SEVEN LINES: “A little bit of game and a whole lot of truth. Life is just like that. For whatever it’s worth to the buyer so much game is sold worldwide people forget the truth is free upfront; it only costs on the back end of damage when ignored initially. Games are created, curated […]
Interview: Jacob Sidney, Author of Daddy Drinks: Six Dads Trying to Get It Right—While Getting It Hilariously Wrong
Post Hill Press FIRST SEVEN LINES: “The six of us go back a ways. Long before any of us had children—or even knew the amazing women who would make that happen—we were friends. Buddies who stayed out into the wee hours drinking, and making theater, and drinking while making theater. We were actors and writers […]
Review: The Fifth of July by Kelly Simmons
In her fourth novel, The Fifth of July, Kelly Simmons deftly explores the heartbreaking ambivalence of family life in upper-upper-middle-class America while also offering readers a classic page-turner in a style reminiscent of Agatha Christie. At the heart of the novel is the Warner clan. Vacationing in their summer home on Nantucket, the Warners represent […]