https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zd9wz-19ae656 Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Parul Kapur. Parul Kapur is a novelist, journalist, and literary critic. Her short fiction centers on the aftermath of colonialism in India and the lives of Indian immigrants. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Wascana Review, Prime Number, Midway Journal, and the anthology {Ex}tinguished & {Ex}tinct.…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nc336-19ae64e Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Lo Patrick. Lo Patrick is a former lawyer and current novelist living in the suburbs of Atlanta. Her debut, The Floating Girls, earned a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, and was a Reader’s Digest Editor’s Pick. It was named…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zwaxk-19ae640 Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Andie Burke & Lindsay Hameroff. Andie Burke writes romantic comedies in between her pediatric RN shifts. She lives in Maryland with an alarming number of books, ultra-fine point pens, dehydrated houseplants, and two small humans. Her debut Fly with Me was listed as one of POPSUGAR’s Best…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rbabf-19ae611 Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Flannery Buchanan. Flannery Buchanan moved to Crozet with her family in 2018 from the Chicago area. She was trained and worked briefly as a school librarian until she began having children and then she stayed home for 15 years raising her four kids. When Flannery was ready…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n4y89-19ae606 Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Valerie Nieman   Valerie Nieman is the author of novels and short story and poetry collections. Her novel In the Lonely Backwater won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award and was a Foreword Indies Book of the Year finalist. Her critically acclaimed work includes To the Bones and…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-geg2q-188bb9d Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Jeffrey Blount Jeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of four novels. Almost Snow White, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards, Hating Heidi Foster, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature, The Emancipation of Evan Walls, winner of the 2020 National…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3rrri-18308bc Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Emily Carpenter Emily Carpenter is the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of suspense novels, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, The Weight of Lies, and Every Single Secret. After graduating from Auburn with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication, she moved to New York City. She’s worked as an…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4qxtm-183039a Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Shastri Akella Shastri Akella’s debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published by Flatiron Books in the USA and Canada and by Penguin in India. He was a writing resident at the Fine Arts Works Center and the Oak Springs Garden Foundation. He is the winner of the…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g56hg-183038b Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview The Biscuit Queen! Mary Martha Greene is a South Carolina native and government relations consultant who perfected her entertaining skills for making friends and engaging clients during her forty-year career. She divides her time between Beaufort and Columbia, SC. She is the author of the bestselling book,…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fpvit-1830378 Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Kalela Williams Kalela Williams is an author, a proud auntie, a cat mama, and a “Black History Maven.” She is the Director of the Virginia Center for the Book and directs the Virginia Festival of the Book and other events. She has created and produced literary events…