1–What is the title of your latest release? SOMEONE YOU TRUST   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Amy goes to work as a nanny for a wealthy family in rural Ireland. She’s pretending to be the perfect employee. They’re pretending to be the perfect employers. Everyone’s got something to hide. Who will get caught out first?   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? SOMEONE YOU TRUST is set largely in West Cork, a remote, beautiful, rural part of Ireland. There are also flashbacks to Amy’s former life in Dublin. Like Amy, I’m from Dublin, a city girl born and raised, and when I went on holiday to West Cork in my mid-twenties, I thought it was the most beautiful place I’d ever been in my life. Wild, windy, green, rugged, atmospheric. I knew that one day I would write a thriller with that dramatic landscape as the backdrop.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes, I would. I think Amy was dealt a very difficult hand in life, and hasn’t had much opportunity to overcome some of her hardships. I’d love to see the person she…

Hi all! My Name is Lena Gregory and I’m excited to share a bit about MURDER A LA MODE, the first novel in my new Coffee & Cream Café Mystery series with you.   M is for Murder. Which Danika Delaney is 100% sure she didn’t commit and 99ish% sure Luca Marinelli, her ex-boyfriend, didn’t commit. U is for Unexpected. The last thing Danika expects to find when she returns home to take over her Uncle Jimmie’s failing ice cream parlor is a body in the basement. R is for Rumors. The Watchogue gossip mill is working overtime to keep up with rumors of infidelity and murder. D is for Detective Steamy. A.K.A. Detective Jake Barlow. E is for Ethel. Or in Danika’s case, her best friend and partner in crime, Gwen Rothberg. (The Ethel to her Lucy, according to Detective Steamy) R is for Revenge. If rumors are to be believed, Danika’s motive for killing Luca’s estranged wife, the same woman he cheated on her with at prom.   A is for Affair. Rumor also has it Danika returned at the same time Luca decided to divorce Heather because the two of them were having an affair.   L…

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Every time I sit down to write a book, I ask myself how I can make an old idea fresh? In THE LOVE SCRIPT, I paired the fake dating trope with a celebrity romance set in Hollywood. On the surface, this idea isn’t fresh; however, what makes it new—because believe me, there are plenty of fake dating, celebrity romances—is that my heroine and hero agree to date for real. Both have strong convictions and are uncomfortable with the lying aspect fake dating brings. They want to be able to go to sleep at night, knowing they weren’t doing something wrong. Yet even though they agree to date for real, the world at large has no idea this is their first interaction. Even the parents of my heroine, Nevaeh, think the relationship is genuine and has already been going on for some time. You see a paparazzi photo was snapped then shared on media outlets suggesting their relationship contradicts the faith my hero, Lamont, boldly shares. In a world where you can be cancelled for perceived wrong, Nevaeh and Lamont are trying to change the narrative to save Lamont’s reputation. Despite the heavy topic that ensues, The Love Script is laced…

1–What is the title of your latest release? CONFESSIONS OF A CANINE DRAMA QUEEN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Two people get a second chance at love with the world’s worst matchmaker—a dramatic Husky named Molly. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The whole series is set in New York, but for the third book I needed to have the characters thrown together in a space where they couldn’t escape each other… enter a dog talent competition at an adult camping retreat! 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely. August is totally the kind of woman I love to have as a friend. She’s independent, forthright, ambitious, and kind. She’s the kind of friend who will tell you the truth even if it’s hard and be there with tissues and ice cream to help you get through it. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Ambitious, Independent, Strong. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? That dog grooming can be a really tough job! I watched a ton of dog grooming videos to understand the process and considerations for the scenes where August is on…

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1–What is the title of your latest release? THE HEART’S BIDDING   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Auctioneer Toby Miller is a notorious bachelor. Rachelle Lapp refuses to give up teaching children with disabilities. Together they face their hardest battle yet: trusting God’s plan for their uncertain future.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? It was a little selfish, I admit. Each of my Amish romance series takes place in a different Amish community in states across the country. I decide on Virginia for The Amish Calling series because my daughter’s family, which includes three grandkids, lives there. I stayed with them, and Erin and my granddaughter Brooklyn accompanied me on a road trip to Farmville, which served as a basis for my fictional town of Lee’s Gulch, Virginia.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I’d love to spend time with Rachelle. She’s such a good friend, sister, daughter, and teacher. She works hard, but she also knows how to have fun. You can count on her. I don’t know how she’d feel about hanging out with an Englisher who’s older than dust, lol.  …

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE PRINCESS. It’s the final novel in my trilogy about controversial women in the House of Windsor. The other two are The Governess, about Queen Elizabeth’s teacher and confidante, and The Duchess, which is my hot take on that other famous American duchess, Wallis Simpson. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? It’s a novel, the first novel, about the young Princess Diana. It’s about the part of her life that’s not so well-known; her journey to becoming Princess of Wales. Her childhood, schooldays and meeting Prince Charles. Theirs was the most celebrated royal wedding ever, but why did it come about? How did the awkward country teenager turn into the most famous woman in the world? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Diana’s early life was spent in very specific places; all very aristocratic and glamorous. Her first home was Park House, on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, which is one of the Royal Family’s favorite holiday homes. As a child, Diana used to go to birthday parties at Sandringham House for the young princes Andrew and Edward. This was where she and Charles…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Ann Garvin!   Writes: I write funny and sad stories about women who do too much in a world that asks too much from them.   About: If you’re here and not on Match.Com or Tinder, we’re probably a match already. Readers are my jam. I’m a loyal writer who sticks to what I do best; characters who are a little scattered and get themselves into situations where their friends shake their heads and hope for the best. I’ll never lie to you, except when I say that my books aren’t based on real people. Shhhhh. Sometimes if you pay attention, you might be able to figure out who is real and who is fiction. Especially with THERE’S NO COMING BACK FROM THIS, because there are a couple of movie stars that have some pretty important roles. I like adventure, well, my characters do, but not like scaling mountains, no, they stick to solid ground and a little occasional romance. If you like to…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE NARROW 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Reeling from a traumatic summer, Eden White returns to her beloved boarding school to discover her tuition hasn’t been paid—and she’ll only be able to stay if she becomes the live-in companion to Delphine Fournier, a girl who must live in careful isolation, as even a drop of untreated water might be deadly to her, and who has a mysterious connection to the ghost known as the Drowning Girl. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’ve always loved stories of boarding schools, particularly the haunted kind. The basics of Atwood School were obvious enough, but when it came to haunting it, I wanted a ghost tied inextricably to the physical place. The Narrow was inspired by a real place—the Bolton Strid, a very similar body of water on the other side of the ocean. The deceptive calm of both the Strid and the Narrow, a calm which hides seemingly endless, deadly depths, was the perfect metaphor for a haunted place and a haunted life, and once I had threaded those waters through the grounds of Atwood,…