About Trana Mathews: Since there's an author named Diane Hildebrandt who writes reference books, I decided to use Trana Mathews as my pen name. My love for books has been constant throughout my life, though my choice of literary genre often changed. I love it when I just can't put a book down! After retiring to beautiful southeastern Arizona in 2015, I began researching and writing my family's history. This kept me busy and out of trouble, besides my third … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Trana Mathews
The Mathews Family by Trana Mathews
From their beginnings in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, their lives have been intertwined with American history. As a young child, Increase Mathews witnesses the birth of the United States. Along with his mother and siblings, he remains on the farm while their older male relatives join the ranks of the Continental Army. After the Revolutionary War ends, social and political unrest continues throughout central Massachusetts during the period known as Shays's Rebellion and a battle takes place … [Read more...] about The Mathews Family by Trana Mathews
Interview with Author – Gifford MacShane
About Gifford MacShane: Gifford MacShane is the author of historical fiction that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. Her novels feature a family of Irish immigrants who settle in the Arizona Territory. With an accessible literary style, MacShane draws out her characters' hidden flaws and strengths as they grapple with both physical and emotional conflicts. Singing almost before she could talk, MacShane has always loved folk music, whether it be Irish, Appalachian, or the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Gifford MacShane
Interview with Author – M. Billiter
About M. Billiter: M. Billiter is the alter ego of contemporary, award-winning romance author, Mary Billliter. After writing more than a dozen love stories, she is exploring the other side. Best known for her emotional honesty, Mary doesn't write about well-adjusted people, but rather the wounds in life. M. Billiter writes with clarity and raw emotion to explore difficult subjects and issues close to her heart. The Book Trailer for, "A Divided Mind" can be viewed … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – M. Billiter
Red Maple Falls Series Bundle: Books 4-6 by Theresa Paolo
Red Maple Falls Series Bundle: Books 4-6 by Theresa Paolo Love blooms in the New Hampshire town of Red Maple Falls in this newest collection of utterly romantic small-town love stories! Join the rest of the Hayes siblings as they each find love in the most unexpected ways. … [Read more...] about Red Maple Falls Series Bundle: Books 4-6 by Theresa Paolo
Featured PermaFree eBook: Can’t Buy Me Love by Martin Humphries
About the Book It’s the sixties, and London might be swinging, but not for our girl, Edith. Raised in a miserable home full of anger and hate, life for poor Edith seems to hold little hope. But she finds plenty when she teams up with her older gay cousin, Ronnie, who makes her his mission with a plan to re-shape her into the fabulous young woman he knows she deserves to be. Once free of her father and her weak, defenseless mother, her transformation is swift and dramatic. Suddenly, life is an … [Read more...] about Featured PermaFree eBook: Can’t Buy Me Love by Martin Humphries
The Catalain Book of Secrets by Jessica Lourey
"The Catalain Book of Secrets opens with a bang and keeps on firing off the unexpected. Think Charles deLint or Alice Hoffman...spell-binding." ―Midwest Book Review Faith Falls is a snug little Minnesota town constructed over a mystery, a place where the most impressive building is a gorgeous Queen Anne with turrets, cantilevered gables, and a wraparound porch. In a concealed room beneath the twisting stairs of the Queen Anne lies the Catalain Book of Secrets, the repository of the wisdom the … [Read more...] about The Catalain Book of Secrets by Jessica Lourey
Refugee by Reece Pocock
Reece Pocock has written an authoritative and intimate story of two families brought together by war and peace; in the process, he creates a fine study of how ordinary people are swept along by political and military events over which they have no control but which continue to colour their daily lives. In North Africa in the 1940s, two men - Bill, an Australian and Rolf, a German - confront each other in a one-to-one fight in the vicious battles around Tobruk. Both are forever scared physically … [Read more...] about Refugee by Reece Pocock
Interview with Author – Christine Simolke
About Christine Simolke: I am a former middle school language arts teacher/group cycling instructor with a master’s degree in English education. I’m married and have two sons, two dogs and two cats. I love to read, run, take group exercise classes, dance with my husband, and cook. When my youngest son entered high school, about 7 years ago, I quit teaching to work on writing full time. What inspires you to write? I am inspired by reading about and talking to interesting people, watching the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Christine Simolke
Interview with Author – Elizabeth Guider
About Elizabeth Guider: I am a longtime entertainment journalist who has worked in Rome, Paris and London as well as in New York and Los Angeles. Born in the South, I hold a doctorate in Renaissance Studies from New York University. During the late 1970’s I was based in Rome where I taught English and American literature and where much of the action of my first novel, The Passionate Palazzo, takes place. While in Europe I worked as an entertainment reporter for the showbiz newspaper Variety, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Elizabeth Guider
Interview with Author – Toni House
About Toni House: Toni House Best Selling Author and Entrepreneur. She loves writing and telling stories. Unable to start writing until 2009 just because life takes over. College, marriage at 19 while in college, then kids, and business. Then one day kids are out of house then an unexpected divorce after 26 years of marriage. Then the economy tanked. And Toni wanted to help families so her first non-fiction self help book was published in 2009 and then her second non-fiction self help book was … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Toni House
The Ties That Bind by Nicholas Bridwell
"Everything's bigger in Texas. Even the Secrets." How many family sagas have you read that include a murder mystery in Texas, an epic romance in Japan, tragedy on the cobblestone streets of Paris, and cliff-divers and witchy-women in Mexico? Nicholas Bridwell's debut novel, The Ties That Bind, is about five families who couldn't be more different coming together as a community when tragedy strikes their neighborhood. From there, the story branches out into generations as we explore the … [Read more...] about The Ties That Bind by Nicholas Bridwell
