Browse Posts: Author Q&A

Author Patricia Raybon’s World War II historical, The Sedalia Code, combines a love story with a code-cracking mystery, while also addressing issues that Black Americans dealt with at the time.

At a prestigious Black finishing school in North Carolina, math teacher Laurette Lowe is asked to look at a cryptic …

Recently, we invited historical romance authors to spend an hour with us, talking with each other and responding to your reader questions. Tamera Alexander, Jenelle Hovde, Christine Hill Suntz, and Roseanna M. White were so gracious with their time and their expertise during the event!

We received so many wonderful …

In the Southern historical novel The Dogwood Gospel, author Cindy Morgan tells the story of teenaged Charlie. When Charlie runs away from the constricting couple raising her as her own, she works as a trick-horse rider at the Southland Carnival. There, she creates her own version of family among …

In the historical novel Every Given Day, Cathy Gohlke explores how the Spanish flu epidemic and a diabetes diagnosis would have affected the lives of everyday people in 1918.

This novel started with a personal connection to Cathy’s family, which led her down the path of research where she …

In These Hills is set in Lynchburg, Tennessee, home of Jack Daniel’s Distillery and Miss Mary Bobo’s Boarding House. But it’s also the home of author Tamera Alexander’s ancestors.

While the story of Josephine isn’t based on the life of a person in Tamera’s family, her familiarity with Lynchburg and …

In author Ryan Steck’s Matthew Redd thriller series, his hero is a former Marine Raider who has traveled all over the globe as part of his military career. When he’s discharged, he sets his sights on his hometown in Montana, eventually settling down on a ranch and starting a family.…

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 …