An Interview with Kelly J. Ford, Author of Cottonmouths

You can find my most recent author interview over at Dead Darlings. Kelly J. Ford’s gripping debut novel, Cottonmouths, recounts protagonist Emily Skinner’s return to her small hometown in the Ozarks. Emily’s irresistible attraction to her former best friend and childhood crush Jody Monroe leads to danger – a meth lab on Jody’s property is just […]

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An Interview with Louise Miller, Author of The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living

You can find my most recent author interview over at Dead Darlings. Louise Miller’s delightful debut novel, The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, follows pastry chef Olivia Rawlings from Boston to idyllic Guthrie, Vermont following a workplace accident precipitated by a flambé dessert. Olivia’s life in Guthrie takes an unexpected turn toward the pastoral when […]

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An Interview with Jennifer Haigh, Author of Heat and Light

You can find my most recent author interview over at Dead Darlings. Anyone who has followed Jennifer Haigh’s writing career will be unsurprised to learn that her fifth and latest novel, Heat and Light, offers a gripping, cleverly constructed, deeply empathetic account of the shale gas boom’s effect on economically downtrodden Bakerton, PA, a fictionalized version of […]

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An Interview with Michelle Hoover, Author of Bottomland

You can find my most recent author interview over at Dead Darlings. Building on her critically acclaimed debut novel The Quickening, Michelle Hoover’s gripping, brilliantly crafted new release, Bottomland, follows the Hess family’s struggle to stay together on the Iowa plains following the mysterious disappearance of two family members during the years after World War I. According […]

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An Interview with E.B. Moore, Author of Stones in the Road

You can find my most recent author interview over at Dead Darlings. Following up on her critically-acclaimed debut novel An Unseemly Wife, E.B. Moore’s new release Stones in the Road follows eleven-year-old Joshua from his Amish home in Pennsylvania to the wilds of Colorado and beyond. Christopher Castellani has called Moore’s novel “…an epic yet intimate journey through […]

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