About Leta McCurry: Tale-spinner. Revealer of secrets. A dog’s best friend. Cornbread and fried okra country girl. Lives in Arizona, and enjoys writing, reading, the open road on a Stallion motorcycle (trike–as a passenger), good food, travel, genealogy, and a large, fun-loving family. Favorite destinations: Ireland and Singapore. Author of “High Cotton Country” and “A Shadow Life” and presently writing her third novel, “Dancing to the Silence.” What inspires you to write? I can't … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Leta McCurry
Homecoming in Christmas Falls by Ciara Knight
Homecoming in Christmas Falls by Ciara Knight Eight years after fleeing Christmas Falls because of a high school prank gone wrong, Ashley Brooks receives a mysterious letter from her mentor asking her to come home. She arrives to face all she left behind—her family, her friends, and the rich boy she’d loved who would never date the girl from the wrong side of town. Brent Donnelly, high school jock, brainiac, and dutiful son did everything right until the day Ashley returns to Christmas … [Read more...] about Homecoming in Christmas Falls by Ciara Knight
Portrait of a Dead Guy by Larissa Reinhart
In Halo, Georgia, folks know Cherry Tucker as big in mouth, small in stature, and able to sketch a portrait faster than buckshot rips from a ten gauge -- but commissions are scarce. So when the well-heeled Branson family wants to memorialize their murdered son in a coffin portrait, Cherry scrambles to win their patronage from her small town rival. As the clock ticks toward the deadline, Cherry faces more trouble than just a controversial subject. Between ex-boyfriends, her flaky family, an … [Read more...] about Portrait of a Dead Guy by Larissa Reinhart
Interview with Author – Sara Baker
About Sara Baker: Sara Baker's fiction has been published in Cleaver, Confrontation, H.O.W. Journal, The China Grove Journal, TheIntima.org, The Examined Life Journal, The New Quarterly, The Lullwater Review and other venues and has been shortlisted for the Bridport and Fish contests. Her poetry has been published in Stone, River, Sky: the Negative Capability Press Anthology of Georgia Poetry, The 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, The Apalachee Review, The Healing Muse, Ars … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Sara Baker
Interview with Author – Larissa Reinhart
About Larissa Reinhart: A 2015 Georgia Author of the Year Best Mystery finalist, Larissa writes the Cherry Tucker Mystery series. The first in the series, PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY (2012), is a 2012 Daphne du Maurier finalist, 2012 The Emily finalist, and 2011 Dixie Kane Memorial winner. The sixth mystery, A COMPOSITION IN MURDER, releases November 15, 2016. The first in her Maizie Albright Star Detective series, 15 MINUTES, releases January 24, 2017. Her family and Cairn Terrier, Biscuit, now … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Larissa Reinhart
Scout’s Honor – a novel by Dori Ann Dupré
In Haddleboro, North Carolina, Scout Webb is a 14 year old kind and spirited small town southern girl and a tomboy much like her namesake, the young narrator from her mother’s favorite book. With both her name and her Christian faith deeply woven into the fabric of her identity, Scout always felt like she had a lot to live up to and was the kind of girl who made her parents proud. It's August 1983, and Scout is playing on a summer baseball team with Charlie Porter, her best friend since … [Read more...] about Scout’s Honor – a novel by Dori Ann Dupré
Interview with Author – Dori Ann Dupré
About Dori Ann Dupré: Dori was born and raised in New Jersey. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in History and is a veteran of the United States Army. Dori currently works in the legal field in North Carolina, where she resides with her family. Scout’s Honor is her first novel. What inspires you to write? I write for several reasons. One is because I like to make sense of my own life experiences. It is therapeutic to work through my own complexities or the unsolved … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Dori Ann Dupré
The Circle of Friends: Book I…Lori by L. Diane Wolfe
Driven by Olympic dreams… To the outside world, Lori Anders has it all. The only child of affluent parents, she is a gifted swimmer with Olympic dreams. Armed with a winning attitude and genuine spirit, Lori appears destined for success. Yet despite her certainty in the pool, something inhibits Lori from achieving her full potential. Her focus on swimming has left little time for relationships. Lacking in confidence, Lori’s light has few opportunities to shine. When an altercation with … [Read more...] about The Circle of Friends: Book I…Lori by L. Diane Wolfe
Interview with Author – L. Diane Wolfe
About L. Diane Wolfe: Known as “Spunk On A Stick,” Wolfe is a member of the National Speakers Association. She conducts seminars on book publishing, promoting, leadership, and goal-setting, and she offers book formatting and author consultation. She is the author of seven books, including two non-fiction titles and a NA/YA series, The Circle of Friends. Wolfe travels extensively for media interviews and speaking engagements, maintains numerous websites & blogs, (including the Insecure … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – L. Diane Wolfe
Interview with Author – Charlotte Henley Babb
About Charlotte Henley Babb: Living in the suburbs of Upstate South Carolina, I'm a steampunk fairy godmother living in an alien land. I am working on retirement, to begin to collect some back of what I've paid in for the last 40 years, figuring out how to make the transition to old age. I am widowed, single now for 20 years, and taking care of myself as well as I can. I love the writing of Terry Pratchett, Shelly Adina, Gail Carriger, Robert Aspirin, classic writers Robert Heinlein, Spider … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Charlotte Henley Babb
You Won’t Remember This by Kate Blackwell
The twelve stories in You Won't Remember This illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Kate Blackwell's wry, often darkly funny voice describes the repressed underside of a range of middle-class characters living in the South. Blackwell’s focus is elemental—on marriage, birth, death, and the entanglements of love at all ages—but her gift is to shine a light on these universal situations with such … [Read more...] about You Won’t Remember This by Kate Blackwell
Interview with Author – Kate Blackwell
About Kate Blackwell: Though I didn’t publish my first book until I was in my 60’s, I’ve been writing most of my life. I was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, traveled north for college then returned to North Carolina for graduate school. I worked as a reporter at the Raleigh News & Observer and editorial writer for the Greensboro Daily News, before moving to Washington, DC, where I was a freelance writer and editor and co-authored several nonfiction books before turning full-time … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Kate Blackwell
