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1–What is the title of your latest release? MAGDALENA 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A woman seeks to heal her maternal grief through a secret obsession with the girl next door, and together they confront ghosts real and imagined in this hauntingly poignant novel. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The secluded, foggy peninsula I had in my mind was so specific, I had to fictionalize it. I placed it in Northern California and named it ‘Sam’s Town’ (after a song from my favorite band, The Killers). 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I love peculiar people—maybe because they give me the freedom to be my most peculiar self—and so yes, I would hang out with Dottie. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Now that you already know she’s peculiar—she’s also restless, inquisitive, and intuitive. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned that my role as a mother had changed with my kids becoming adults, and writing this novel helped me through the transition into a new phase of life. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally…

1–What is the title of your latest release? IN THE SHELTER OF HOLLYTHORNE HOUSE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When Charlotte Prior’s husband dies unexpectedly, she knows her son is in danger, so she and her son flee to Hollythorne House, her childhood home. While there, she comes face-to face with her former love, who’d been hired as one of the watchmen charged with protecting them until the details of her late husband’s estate are settled. When new threats emerge and the past collides with the present, Charlotte must decide what she is willing to risk for the chance to right past wrongs and carve out a new future. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? For me, this was easy! I write Regency novels, which means the story takes place in England between 1811-1820. There are so many great locations in England to choose from, but I chose the Yorkshire moors for this novel because they are so moody and atmospheric. They take on a personality entirely their own. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely! In fact, by the time I reached the final draft of…

1–What is the title of your latest release? YOU’VE BEEN SERVED   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When former chef Simone Alexander asks a Magic 8 Ball if she should go to law school and promises to do whatever it says, she’s less than enthusiastic when it says yes. She’s even less thrilled when she finds she has to navigate her hot though sometimes obnoxious classmate Silas Whitman, a harsh professor who seems to have it out for her, and oh yeah, the mounds of work. But as she gets her footing, she discovers things may not be as dire as they seem and that fate may have given her a nudge in the right direction.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I like to write about places I know and like, and I spent three years hanging out in East Lansing. It’s a cute college town and Michigan State University is a beautiful campus so deciding to write about it was easy.   4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? I would definitely hang out with end of the book Simone when she’s gotten her feet…

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 Aliyah Burke!   Writes: I write a little bit of a lot. Contemporary, historical, paranormal and even cozy mysteries. There will always be twists and turns in my stories, I will make them work for it but everyone will get a happily ever after.   My latest novel, NO COOLDOWN FOR LOVE, is the final installment of Rock Falls. This is a romantic comedy series that follow three ex professional sports players and the women who bring them to their knees. In this story, you’ll find, opposites attract, forced proximity, one-bed and all the things that come with being stranded with a stranger at a place during a singles mixer.   About: Southern female who loves to read and dogs. I love cooking and taking care of my family. Love adventure and humor. Laughter is important and I’m far more comfortable having a night out in a field with a bonfire than at a fancy restaurant. Firm believer that women can do anything they set their minds to….

Book Title: BOAT GIRL Character Name: Caitlin Davies   How’s high school going for you? I was having a perfectly respectable high school experience until my parents insisted we move to the British Virgin Islands for a year. Now my life is all shipwrecks and attack-lemurs! To be fair, though, the guys here are pretty cute. So are the lemurs.   What is your greatest talent? I am very organized. This talent is somewhat undervalued by my peers, but just wait until the time comes to fill out FAFSA applications. Then they’ll find out.   Significant other? I’m working on it.   Biggest challenge in relationships? Authenticity. And wardrobe malfunctions.   Where do you live? A hotel called the Pickled Pirate. It’s a long story.   Do you have any enemies? No! I’m a nice person! Well, those drug smugglers weren’t my biggest fans, but we worked it out. And I really do not care for chickens; they are chaotic evil.   How do you like the British Virgin Islands? I mean, it’s hard to complain about pristine beaches and crystal-clear water! Really? Because I just finished reading Chapter 4 and— I said hard, not impossible.   Do you have…

You know the trope: our heroine returns to her hometown and runs into the very person she wanted to avoid the most. It might be a guy she missed her chance with the first time; it might be one she now despises for one reason or another. It might even be her ex, her first love, or her ex-husband. Whoever he is, he’s not a stranger, and seeing him again hits her harder than   a body slam. There are feelings, maybe mostly bad. But uh oh—he’s just as hot as ever! There are feelings to be sorted through, truths to be revealed. Mr. Blast-From-the-Past might be annoying, but layers gradually get peeled away—he’s not awful! And he might annoy our heroine, but oh my gosh, he gets her in ways that no one else can. So in some ways, he’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to her, but also, well…the best. Some people say that second-chance romance is for older people, those who tend to look back on their lives and reminisce about past choices and decisions: the one-who-got-away, the forbidden love, or the one-who-never was. I have always been a fan of second chance romance, even when I…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE AIR RAID BOOK CLUB 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times after the death of her beloved husband, Harry. She decides to sell up and move to the coast but then her husband’s best friend, Charles asks if she would be willing to take in a young Jewish refugee from Germany. Gertie agrees and when fifteen-year-old Hedy Fischer arrives, she fears she has nothing left to give the troubled girl. But as war begins and the lights go out over London, Gertie and Hedy realize that joining forces will make them stronger, and that books have the power to bring young and old together and unite a community in need in its darkest hour. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I always set my books in and around south-east London where I live so my local town became the imagined location because the community is just as friendly as Beechwood’s! 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Definitely! I used to be a bookseller so would love to work in Gertie’s bookshop. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist?…

1–What is the title of your latest release? ALCHEMY OF A BLACKBIRD 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Desperate to escape the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her lover, poet Benjamin Peret, flee Paris for Villa Air Bel, a safe house for artists on the Riviera. Along with Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, and others, the two anxiously wait for exit papers. As the months pass, Remedios begins to sense that the others don’t see her as a fellow artist; they have cast her in the stifling role of a surrealist ideal: the beautiful innocent. She finds refuge in a mysterious bookshop, where she stumbles into a world of occult learning and intensifies an esoteric practice in the tarot that helps her light the bright fire of her creative genius. When travel documents come through, Remedios and Benjamin flee to Mexico where she is reunited with friend and fellow painter Leonora Carrington. Together, the women tap into their creativity, stake their independence, and each find their true loves. But it is the tarot that enables them to access the transcendent that lies on the other side of consciousness, to become the truest Surrealists of all. 3–How did you decide…

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 Vanessa Riley!   Writes: Ready for an intimate look at true history? Vanessa Riley writes award winning fiction showcasing the power women time has erased. Get swept away in court intrigue, politics, and scandal in Riley’s QUEEN OF EXILES.   About: Looking for a good time, and want to learn a little something? Take a spin with Vanessa Riley. Vanessa Riley is an award-winning author of Island Queen, A Good Morning America Buzz Pick and the forthcoming Queen of Exiles. Riley’s historical novels showcase the hidden histories of Black women and women of color, emphasizing strong sisterhoods and dazzling multicultural communities. Her works encompass historical fiction, historical romance, and historical mystery and have been reviewed by the Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Publisher Weekly, and the New York Times. Riley was named the 2023 Georgia Author of the Year Awards Literary Fiction Winner for Sister Mother Warrior.    Vanessa’s looking for soul mates – readers who want: Women in power Intense love relationships Sisterhoods Hidden histories…