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 Emy McGuire! Book:NO ONE ABOARD. What is more dangerous to a family? A stormy ocean… or each other? Likes:Swords, sailing, women’s stories, eating lemons like oranges, and connecting to people Writes:Delicious and decadent domestic thrillers (and someday soon, queer dark fantasy) About:I am a debut author new to the literary scene, and hopeful to find my soulmate readers! I grew up in Colorado, but my heart belongs to the ocean. I sailed across the Atlantic when I was twenty, and I graduated from New College of Florida with a degree in theatre and creative writing. I have toured the United States performing in the Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy, played Queen Elizabeth I at multiple renaissance fairs, and written a queer pirate musical that is a newcoming TikTok sensation. Now that I am a published author, I hope to be able to continue telling stories for the rest of my life. You should swipe right on me if you like:• Glistening and haunting narratives• Dysfunctional,…

What is the title of your latest release?INNOCENCE ROAD What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?Set in far West Texas, INNOCENCE ROAD is the story of Leanne Everhart, a police detective who is trying to track down a serial killer whose crime spree spans two decades. How did you decide where your book was going to take place?I love the setting of this story—Marfa, Texas, near Big Bend. It’s such a ruggedly beautiful place, and it’s the perfect backdrop for this family saga. Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?Yes. Leanne is the kind of person you want to have a margarita with and hear about all the crazy cases she’s worked over the years. What are three words that describe your protagonist?Gritty. Resourceful. Determined. What’s something you learned while writing this book?I loved learning all about the mythical ranching culture of far West Texas. Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?I edit as I go. When I sit down to write, I get back into the mindset by reading and editing what I wrote last time so that the story starts moving through my head again. What’s your favorite…

What is the title of your latest release?HOW TO GRIEVE LIKE A VICTORIAN What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?After losing her husband, bestselling author and British Literature professor, Dr. Lizzie Wells, turns into a hot mess as she copes by mourning Victorian-style—widow weeds, black jet jewelry. Confused after almost-kissing her late husband’s best friend, Lizzie hares off to London. What follows is a fun, romantic escape where Lizzie learns that there’s hope, happiness, and second chances after hitting rock bottom. How did you decide where your book was going to take place?Answer: Because she’s a British Literature professor, her grief journey will take her to England where she can immerse herself in the world she’s studied for years. Also, Queen Victoria pretty much set the rules for how widows were to grieve, so that that also made sense. As the book progresses, her journey takes her onward to Bronte territory. The moors are such a beautiful and haunting landscape and the place where the Bronte sisters wrote their novels about loss, love, and heartbreak. I couldn’t imagine Lizzie’s journey ending up anywhere but there. Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?Absolutely! All my good friends…

“How can you write another historical series?” “Where do your ideas keep coming from?” Ah, so many times I’ve heard these questions. My immediate inclination is to shrug and say “got me.” But that isn’t fair and all the writers who shared their skills and training with me would roll their eyes and shake their heads. I think one thing necessary to write lasting fiction is to start out as a storyteller.  I love to hear stories. My Dad was a storyteller, so I came by it honestly. My mother said some of my early words were “read to me.” So this has been going on for some time. As soon as I learned to read, I always had my nose in a book. And then I started to write my own stories, leading into the dream of someday writing horse books for young girls. I got my first pony, Polly, when I was five so loving horses has gone on for a long time too. Have you ever read a book laying on the rump of a full-sized horse? Another thing my parents taught me was the value of tools. I grew up on farms, and tools of all…

Whenever I’m writing a story, music runs foremost in my mind. Sometimes the lyrics steer me to a storyline I hadn’t even considered. I’ve got a song in my head for almost every chapter in this book, but I know I have to narrow it down, so here goes: Money – The Flying Lizards (1978)I want money (that’s what I want). This would have to be the Beginning Theme Song. All Margot dreams about is to become rich with the minimal amount of effort. Lacy – Olivia Rodrigo (2023)In this song, Margo is Lacy–smart, sexy Lacy, and all of her girlfriends are secretly envious of her. Mr. Brightside – The Killers (2003)Then, there’s Mr. Brightside, who represents all of Margot’s lovers. Jealousy. They imagine her with her other lovers, yet they can’t help but keep going back to her. Don’t You Want Me? – The Human League (1981)In this song, Margot is not working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, but she is working as a receptionist in an office. That’s when the multimillionaire, Burton Magnuson, meets her and raises her up financially. He even marries her, so he can’t understand why she would cheat on him. To Margot,…

One of the joys of writing (and reading) Christmas stories is the almost limitless variety in characters and their approaches to the holidays. The three of us have written such different stories (not just because Gin chose to write about a different winter holiday), and none of us could have written the same stories as the other authors in Holidays & Homicide, despite starting with the same assignment. It’s all in the character point of view. Each unique character = different approach to Christmas. Lena Gregory: I wrote about Christmas in Watchogue, New York, a small town on the south shore of Eastern Long Island. A small town has its downs (like prom night, when Dani’s humiliation spread like wildfire), but it also has its ups (like picking up where she left off with her best friend when she returned home from college to take over her Uncle Jimmie’s ice cream parlor and turn it into her very own café). But nothing touches Dani like the holidays, with Main Street decorated in tinsel and lights, the whole town gathered for the tree lighting ceremony, and…the body Dani discovers beneath the town Christmas tree. Misty Simon: I was so very excited…

Book Title: HER TIME TRAVELING DUKECharacter Name: Henry Leighton-Lyons, the Duke of Beresford Interviewer: How would you describe your family or your childhood?Henry: I was born in 1782 in the grand estate of Everly Park in Oxfordshire, England. My mother died in childbirth, my two sisters were much older than me, and my father was a proper duke. I was raised to be the same, although I preferred science to society. Interviewer: What was your greatest talent?Henry: Scientific learning, and astronomy in particular. I have always possessed a superior intellect…although I still cannot fathom what I am doing in the 21st century, in a former British colony! My new friend Rose claims that she conjured me here, which is hardly a rational explanation. Interviewer: Do you have a significant other?Henry: A significant other what? Interviewer: Someone you’re married to, or uh, courting?Henry: Ah. My beloved wife died after only two years of marriage. I have never felt the slightest attraction toward any other woman. You might guess that I have developed feelings for Rose, for she possesses a kind heart, an appealing lightness of spirit, a disarming frankness, and a plump and luscious figure… (clears throat) But truly, we are…

Excerpted from THE LIBRARY OF FATES by Margot Harrison: Now September 26, 2019, 1:15 p.m. The Library of Fates lived tucked under the mansarded roof of a tall, charcoal- gray building in Harvard Yard. To a casual visitor, it was like any other library, lined with shelves for hours of pleasantly aimless browsing. But every student knew that if you came to the Library of Fates and asked for a book to guide you safely through turbulent times, the librarian would go straight to the shelf and put a book in your hands. And that book would change your life. Eleanor Dennet was that librarian now, but the knowledge felt hollow. Her predecessor, Odile Vernet— her mentor, her guiding star, her best friend— had died suddenly three days ago, and she could barely process it. Her throat still raw from crying, her brain still woozy from too much vodka, she stepped over the threshold of the library that had been her refuge for most of the past twenty-four years. On the surface, everything seemed the same: the dark oak paneling and moss- green area rugs and accents; the pearly glow that came through the recessed skylight; the sweet, faintly musty…

Excerpted from THE BIRDWATCHER by Jacquelyn Mitchard: I still believed that Felicity would talk to me. She had to. After the arraignment, though, I had to admit that the odds weren’t great. One thing I knew was true. When Felicity said no, she said it only once. At the very least, I would be able to tell my editor that I had used every key to try every lock in every door. There’s no limit to the number of times you can try the same key in a different lock until that key opens something, even though tenacity and ingenuity are two different things, and I had plenty of the former and not much of the latter. My dad told me once that the number of permutations with the digits one through ten was more than three million and I still don’t know what he was talking about. More usefully, my mom used to say that the answer to any question was in the question; the key was finding the right question. I tried calling Felicity at the jail. Whoever answered told me to hold on, and then, after a minute or so, returned to say that Miss Wild was…

What is the title of your latest release?LOVE ME STALK ME What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?Would you read a book where a woman downloads an AI boyfriend app to confess her fantasies to without knowing that her new hot coworker secretly hacked her phone and is the one she’s really talking to? How did you decide where your book was going to take place?I grew up near NYC! Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?She’s really based on me so, yes! What are three words that describe your hero?Broody, possessive, obsessive. What’s something you learned while writing this book?This book was an exploration of my own insecurities about my body. It was definitely a long-winded way of trying to learn to accept myself! Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?A bit of both! What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?It’s fall so pumpkin spice lattes! Describe your writing space/office!Usually a Starbucks! Who is an author you admire?Kurt Vonnegut Is there a book that changed your life?Honestly, yes! Love Me Stalk Me! Because it means that I get to do this full time which is such a dream come true! Tell…