What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Underneath the Hat is about the journey of Amanda Jayne in her role of First Lady and wife to Campbell. It shares the lessons she learned while dealing with his infidelities and how she learned who she was Underneath the Hat. Tell us something about yourself. Sherri Simmons is a wife and a mother to her beagle … [Read more...]
Sharon Farsijani – Shaming My Red Lips
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Shaming My Red Lips. It is about the life of a female Brooklyn teenager transported back to Iran at the age of 16. This story about my formative teenage years is sprinkled with the familiar angst, anger, energy, and passion that you would expect of any sixteen-year-old. It reflects not only a time when the world around … [Read more...]
Tom Davis MD FAAFP – Telemedicine Confidential
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Telemedicine Confidential---Keeping Your Family Safe “Can telemedicine fill the gap when Samantha loses her doctor? She learns more than she bargains for while trying to keep her family safe.” We took the “business fable” genre and turned it ninety degrees, using a fictionalized journey of discovery to educate … [Read more...]
Albert Nasib Badre – Looking West
What is your book about? It’s about my coming of age immigration with my family from Beirut, Lebanon to the United States when I was fourteen years old. The news I’ll be traveling to America excited me to no end. What I didn’t realize when my parents told us we’ll be coming to America, was with limited English skills, it was going to be a tough road for me. I struggled as I … [Read more...]
Neill McKee – Finding Myself in Borneo
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. is an honest and buoyant chronicle of a young Canadian man’s adventures during 1968-70, while teaching secondary school as a CUSO volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo). Travel with Neill McKee on his unique journey through vibrant Asian cultures as he learns the craft of teaching, the Malay language and local … [Read more...]
Jane T. Bertrand – You Started WHAT After 60? Highpointing Across America
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. You Started WHAT after 60? Highpointing across America Searching for a challenge when I turned age 60, I decided to climb one mountain in every state – before realizing that “highpointing“ exists as a pastime, with its own club, foundation, annual convention, and website. My strategic error was to start with the easy … [Read more...]
Catherine Spitale – The Mayor, The Mob & Me
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. . It’s a novel about being born into an Italian family with Mafia connections, and my search for my true identity. I have red hair and blue eyes, I knew there was more to my heritage than my Italian parents. I explain the search and my conclusion that my famous biological father may have never even known I was born. … [Read more...]
Jo Ann Simon – Rose Colored Glasses
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. “Rose Colored Glasses” A Memoir of Love, Loss and Hope is my debut book. Life was the best it could be for Jo Ann Simon. She was happily divorced, with a wonderful job, two children and a full enjoyable life. Then she met Tom. He said when he first saw her that he would spend the rest of his life with her. To her … [Read more...]
Pamela Jane – An Incredible Talent for Existing
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. My new memoir, , is set in 1965, the era of love, light—and revolution. While I (the twenty-two year old romantic narrator), fanaticize a bucolic future in an old farm house with children climbing the apple trees, my husband plots to organize a revolution and fight a guerrilla war in the Catskills. Our fantasies were on … [Read more...]
Mixing Fact and Fiction: A Romance/Memoir Not in Standard Form
Every writer learns to take that leap of faith and believe in her own creative expression, a way to tell a story that is true and compelling. A Portrait of Love and Honor is that sort of book…a marriage of fact and fiction; a memoir within the framework of a novel. I wanted to write a love story – two people who find in each other their dreams come true. Just as happens in real … [Read more...]