https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vf9hf-14c5798 Lesley Kagen is an actress, sought-after speaker, and award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of nine novels. Whistling in the Dark (2007), Land of a Hundred Wonders (2008), Tomorrow River (2010), Good Graces (2011), Mare’s Nest (2012), The Resurrection of Tess Blessing (2014), The Undertaking of Tessla (2014), The Mutual Admiration Society (2017), and…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fcp69-14c5c57 Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Steven Rowley, author of The Celebrants, and Byron Lane, author of Big Gay Wedding. Steven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR and Esquire Magazine as one of the Best Books of…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-a7w7w-14c5c40 Carolyn Haines is the USA Today bestselling author of over eighty books. She is the 2010 Harper Lee Award winning fiction writer and was inducted into the Alabama Writers’ Hall of Fame in 2020. Carolyn was honored by a Lifetime Achievement Award with the Mississippi Writers Guild. She writes in a number of genres…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cz8eq-14c5481 Jennifer Anne Gordon is an award-winning author and popular host of the Vox Vomitus podcast. Her novel Beautiful, Frightening and Silent won the Kindle Award for Best Horror/Suspense for 2020, Best Horror 2020 from Authors on the Air, and a finalist for American Book Fest’s Best Book Award- Horror, 2020. It also received the…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ahhhp-140c087 Neema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia to parents who immigrated to the United States from India. She has been a history and Civics teacher in the Boston Public Schools since 2003. Her essays have appeared in the Bitter Southerner, Catapult, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Her memoir, Another Appalachia, Coming…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4fmjs-140c067 Annie McDonnell asks Amy Ferris some interesting questions… Amy Ferris is an author, screenwriter, editor and playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions From A Midlife Crisis debuted theatrically (Off-Broadway) in 2012. Ruth Pennebaker of The New York Times called her memoir “poignant, free-wheeling, cranky and funny.” Amy co-edited, along with Hollye Dexter, the…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pe42n-13f9bd1 Zak Salih earned his BA in English and Journalism from James Madison University, and his MA in English from the University of Virginia. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Foglifter, Epiphany, Crazyhorse, The Florida Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Millions, Apogee Journal, Kenyon Review Online, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qkmhw-13f6505 From Annie: “The author I choose each month is one that I believe was born to shine – this month I want to introduce the smart, motivational, inspiring, and wise author – Meg Nocero.”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tjviq-13b3400 Few writers evoke the complexities of the heart and the gritty fascination of the American South as vividly as Donna Everhart, whose lyrical new novel, set against the background of the Great Depression, is a powerful story of courage, survival, and friendship . . .

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4vpkt-13b33f9 “Rousing… movingly explores Jessie’s struggle with her eating disorder, viscerally describing her twin desires for nourishment and purging in relation to a deep need to define herself… Everhart’s story of self-discovery, rife with colorful characters and a satisfying twist, will thrill readers.” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review