Browse Posts: Author Q&A

While we normally think about gladiators as muscular men fighting in arenas, historically women were also forced to fight as entertainment in the Roman empire. Jamie Ogle’s Daughter of the Rebellion imagines one such woman.

When Adel, part of the Visigoth tribe, is captured during a battle with the Roman …

Becca Kinzer’s romantic comedy novels are filled with quirky townspeople, wacky hijinks, witty banter, and swoon-worthy love stories. Not What We Pictured is no exception!

McKenna and Nate are forced to spend the summer together waiting for Nate’s luggage, which accidentally has McKenna’s sister’s heirloom engagement ring in it. While …

Some stories stick with us long after we’ve heard them. In The Lost Story of Via Belle, Harper and her mom enjoyed the novels written by author Via Belle. Seeing those novels again during a low point in her life causes Harper to want to learn more about the …

Lynn Austin has written many historical fiction novels set across a variety of time periods. The Lumber Baron’s Wife takes readers to the Gilded Age, and what’s unique about the story for Lynn’s books is that there is also a storyline set during the present day.

In the following Q …

In The Liar’s Treasure, Camille Abernathy enlists the help of a secret society to find a long-buried treasure. One that has connections to her own family. And one that puts a target on Camille and her daughter.

Connie Mann, the author, tells us how she found inspiration for her …

When you meet Junie Wilder in the opening pages of South of Somewhere, she has hit rock bottom. And she’s lost the one thing that’s most important to her: her daughter, Fern. While Junie’s story starts there, the Southern fiction novel doesn’t end there. Through the course of one …

Imagine you’re at the top of your high-powered career when, out of nowhere, a colleague you trusted blackmails you. As you look deeper into your company, you start to wonder if the blackmail is a threat . . . or a warning.

That’s the idea behind The Lies We Trade…

Yellowstone National Park is a popular tourist destination—over 4.5 million visitors in 2024, according to Wikipedia—and yet many haven’t heard of the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake, which had a profound impact on the park. But Stephanie Landsem hopes to change that with her novel The Fault Between Us, …

Robin W. Pearson writes heartfelt Southern family dramas and The Stories We Carry is no exception. In the novel, Glory, a small-town bookstore owner, finds herself at odds with newcomer Adelle, who seems bent on disrupting Glory’s quiet life. As the two each deal with grief and loss, they must …

Joanne Bischof DeWitt’s The Heart of Bennet Hollow is a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, a novel that has enamored audiences for centuries. This time, Lizbeth Bennet is a farmer’s daughter when William Darcy, a wealthy coal baron, arrives to appraise the local mine. As they form a tenuous …