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1–What is the title of your latest release? FORGETTING TO REMEMBER 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Forgetting to Remember—richly embroidered with historical detail and heartbreaking conflict—is  time travel novel that takes place in London in both 1947 and 1867. It’s a story of art, magic, and survival, wrapped in a love that defies time. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place?...

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1–What is the title of your latest release? MONSTERS WE HAVE MADE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Suspenseful and thoughtful, Monsters We Have Made explores the aftermath of a terrible, mysterious crime, examines the way that dreams and fictions shape our lives, and affirms the enduring power of even the most complicated familial bonds. Come for the monsters, stay for the love story! 3–How did you decide w...

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Hello! My name is Whitney Overland, and I’d love to show you around my hometown of Covington, Wisconsin. As you can see, our quaint town is nestled on the shore of Lake Covington among the tall pines and white birch trees of the Northwoods. Tourists from all over the place visit our little hamlet for the many year-round outdoor activities and our eclectic shops and eateries. All around the lake, there are family-owned resorts with cabins and co...

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Pirates are having a pop culture moment, 300 years after the Golden Age of Pirates. My debut historical novel, IF THE TIDE TURNS—a true forbidden love story between real-life pirate Sam Bellamy and a suspected witch named Maria—inspired a surprising fusion with another pop culture sensation: Taylor Swift.   May I present, If the Tide Turns (Taylor’s Version)   Song 1: “ . . . Ready For It” by Taylor Swift The prologue of If the Ti...

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Maire Hennessy squinted against the bright October sun as she drove down the quiet Iowa county road. The fields were filled with the stubbled remains of the fall harvest and stripped bare by heavy-billed grackles and beady-eyed blackbirds eating their fill before the cold weather set in. It made her a little sad. Winter would be coming soon, unrelenting and unforgiving. That morning, she had packed up her girls and Kryngle, their four-year-old Sh...

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Book Title:  THE EARL’S CINDERELLA COUNTESS Character Name:  Eleanor (Ella) St. Aubin   How would you describe your family or your childhood?  Hello! I am so pleased to be invited there today.  My childhood was lovely—until my darling mother died.  My father was the vicar of a small village, next to the Earl of Fleetwood’s grand estate, and my mother was the heart of everything.  She ran our home and made it beautiful, was belove...

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1–What is the title of your latest release? HUNTED HOTSHOT HERO 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Hotshot firefighter Rory VanDam is in danger and not just from the saboteur targeting his hotshot team but also from an ambitious reporter determined to uncover the truth about him.  Brittney Townsend finds more than a story with Rory; she finds danger and passion. 3–How did you decide where your book was going...

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Cedar River, Texas is a boring little town on the outskirts of Austin where nothing ever happens. Well, there was that big bank robbery back in the fifties, but that was before my time. It’s just far enough away from civilization to be surrounded by bucolic ranches and, of course, the Garza’s dairy farm (they have the best ice cream in the county) but is close enough that any day now it might be gobbled up by the “Big City,” as folks from...

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1–What is the title of your latest release? Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe Murder Mystery Book 7 – A DEADLY DECEPTION 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Two people in a most unusual relationship.  Parliament, the heart of British law and authority.  A deadly plot.  Hundreds of people will die unless it can be stopped. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? A DEADLY DECEPTION  �...

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1–What is the title of your latest release? MAYA’S LAWS OF LOVE! 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A young woman who has always been unlucky in love may have finally met the love of her life… while on the way to her own wedding. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I visited Pakistan in 2020 for the first time after 15 years, and while being there it fed my diaspora soul in ways ...

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Smashwords Top 20 Bestselling Indie Fiction Books by Units (March 10 – March 16, 2024)
Author Guest / March 22, 2024

Shot Taker, Book 2, King of the Court Series by Piper Lawson The Wickedness of a Highlander, Book 4, Midnight in Scotland Series by Elisa Braden Love on the Line boxset: books 1 – 3, Love on the Line Series by Kari Lemor Desire Unbound, Book 4, The Dufort Dynasty Series by Juliette N Banks Fierce at Heart, Book 2, The Kincaids of Pine Harbour Series by Zoe York Gigi and the Gym Rats, Book 2, The Candyverse Series by Mona Black Monster...

Deborah Wilde | The Character Most Likely
Author Guest / March 21, 2024

Most likely to figure out how to use an enemy’s strength against them? Aviva Fleischer (BIG DEMON ENERGY, DEMON ON DECK – Bedeviled AF Aeries) Aviva’s magic allows her to illuminate physical weaknesses, which, thanks to training and experience she extrapolates into a psychological assessment she uses to bring down magic criminals. And if her secret demon side gets a rush out of exploiting those weaknesses, well, so long as she use...

Nicci French | In 1990 a Woman Fails to Turn up to Her Husband’s 50th Birthday Party
Author Guest / March 21, 2024

1–What is the title of your latest release? HAS ANYONE SEEN CHARLOTTE SALTER? 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? In 1990 a woman fails to turn up to her husband’s 50th birthday party, devastating her family. Thirty years a young female detective and two podcasters try to solve the crime. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The setting is always crucial for us. We wanted a...

Leslie O’Sullivan | A Centuries-old Fairy Bargain
Author Guest / March 21, 2024

1–What is the title of your latest release? A KINGDOM OF SOULS AND SHADOWS, Fae Destiny Book 1 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? All her life, Eala Duir, a young college professor, has skirted the edges of a fantasy world. When a cryptic message in her grandmother’s will sends her to Ireland, a handsome stranger with mysterious ties to the Fae realm swears she’s been sent to help him fulfill ...

Meg Napier | Spring Flings
Author Spotlight / March 21, 2024

As I type these words, spring is bursting out ferociously across much of North America. So ferociously, in fact, that many people have their heat turned up in the morning, but by late afternoon, it’s grown so hot that air conditioning is called for. And then there’s the pollen! All this exterior chaos is the perfect excuse for settling down in a comfy chair with a great book, and as always, I have some fabulous recommendations. For ...

Parker Adams | L.A.’s Finest Safecracker, is Kidnapped and Forced to Participate in the Heist of the Century
Author Guest / March 20, 2024

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE LOCK BOX 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Monna Locke, L.A.’s finest safecracker, is kidnapped and forced to participate in the heist of the century. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? It needed to be a tropical location, but L.A.-based Monna needed to feel lost and out-of-place, so Miami became the obvious setting and I ...

James Goodhand | What If You Woke Up Each Morning in a Different, Random Day of Your Life?
Author Guest / March 20, 2024

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE DAY TRIPPER 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? What if you woke up each morning in a different, random day of your life? This is the situation twenty-year-old Alex Dean finds himself in after a perfect evening in 1995 ends in disaster. Doomed to never knowing where – or rather when – each new dawn will take him, he must navigate his way through the years...

Julia Justiss | Irish Eyes
Author Spotlight / March 20, 2024

In honor of the Wearin’ of the Green, this month we’ll look at stories featuring characters who hail from the Emerald Isle.  Slainte! Moving chronologically, we begin with THE IRISHMAN’S DAUGHTER by V.S. Alexander.  Briana Walsh loves her home at Carrowteige, County Mayo, where her father Brian is the land agent at Lear House for the English owner, Sir Thomas Blakely.  Brian’s job requires him to collect rents from the tenant...

Avery Flynn | A Hot Hockey RomCom That Will Have You Giggling and Fanning Yourself
Author Guest / March 19, 2024

What is the title of your latest release? WALK OF SHAME is my latest and it is just a good time in book form.   What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Walk of Shame is a hot hockey RomCom that will have you giggling and fanning yourself as Astrid and Cal fall for each other despite their best attempts that this time will be the last  time. Spoilers: It never is.   How did you decide where your book was going to take pla...

Brianna Labuskes | Two Sisters, a Horrific Betrayal and an Extraordinary Protest Against the Nazis
Author Guest / March 19, 2024

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE LOST BOOK OF BONN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A librarian finds a book of poetry while working with Monuments Men to return Nazi-plundered books to their rightful owners after World War II. The hunt leads her to two sisters, a horrific betrayal and an extraordinary protest against the Nazis at the height of the war. 3–How did you decide where yo...