What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. My most recent book is entitled, >. It takes place beginning in 1939; just when Germany has invaded Poland and France enters the war. Sophie Claveaux, my protagonist is an eighteen-year-old Jewish farm girl, who believes she carries a curse that threatens her loved ones. Her mother died giving birth to her and her father … [Read more...]
Maggie Anton – Enchantress: A Novel of Rav Hisda’s Daughter
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. My newest book is a historical fantasy, . Fantastic tales of demons and the Evil Eye, magical incantations, and powerful attractions abound in this novel that weaves together Talmudic lore, ancient Jewish magic, and a timeless love story set in 4th-century Babylonia, the land where “abracadabra” originated. Tell us … [Read more...]
Rosalind Went – Harbinger of Secrets
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Harbinger of Secrets Tell us something about yourself. I was born in South Wales and also lived in London before moving to Canada when I was eleven. My parents would frequently take me to museums and cultural sites on weekends in 1960s London and, while at the time I may have thought it a boring way to spend … [Read more...]
Sam Sackett – Sweet Betsy from Pike
Tell us a bit about your book. Sweet Betsy from Pike is a historical novel about the California gold rush, based on the old folksong of the same name. Betsy is 18, a minister's daughter, and pregnant. She and her lover, Ike, leave Louisiana, Missouri, to escape the shame and join a wagon train headed for the mining camp of Hangtown. It's a long, tough trip. When they get … [Read more...]
Anne Whitfield – The House of Women
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. The House of Women Leeds. 1870. Lonely and brokenhearted, Grace Woodruff fights for her sisters’ rights to happiness while sacrificing any chance for her own. The eldest of seven daughters, Grace is the core of strength around which the unhappy members of the Woodruff family revolve. As her disenchanted mother … [Read more...]
Regina Jeffers – The Scandal of Lady Eleanor
Tell us something about yourself. From Huntington, WV, originally, I am a product of the 60s and 70s in small town America. I have held five roles in my lifetime: daughter, wife, mother, teacher, and author – an ordinary life with extraordinary experiences. For example, among those experiences one finds that I was a student at Marshall University when the real-life tragedy … [Read more...]
John Willingham – The Edge of Freedom
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. My new book is The Edge of Freedom, subtitled A Fact-Based Novel of the Texas Revolution. The novel is a creative study of the relationship between the famous battle of the Alamo and lesser-known events going on near the village of Goliad at about the same time. Some of the Alamo heroes appear in the novel—Jim Bowie, … [Read more...]
Vonnie Kauffman – Anna’s Waltz
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Anna's Waltz. A glimpse into a world many of us cannot imagine -- an 1800s world of such patriarchal domination that young women are forced into unhappy marriages, and wives are forced into pregnancies from which they beg to be spared. Anna's strength, steeliness and, sometimes, selfishness place her squarely in … [Read more...]