Book Talk: Angela Carlisle Listen to the episode with Angela Carlisle I love introducing y’all to debut authors, and today’s conversation with Angela Carlisle is such a fun one. Angela’s first novel Secondary Target is a page-turning romantic suspense that kept me reading when I did not have time. That’s the sign of a compelling book! This novel contains a …
Book Talk: Tracie Peterson & Kimberley Woodhouse Watch the episode with Tracie Peterson & Kimberley Woodhouse Y’all! I may have gushed more than a little at the beginning of this Book Talk! Why? Because I had my friends Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse on for this episode. Tracie and her husband Jim are the ones who pulled me from the …
Book Talk: Amanda Dykes Listen to the episode with Amanda Dykes Today, it’s a delight to have Amanda Dykes join me on Book Talk. A busy mother of four, Amanda first decided to be a writer when she realized she was telling her students to follow their dreams and realized she needed to do the same. She started with a …
Book Talk: Shelley Shepard Gray Listen to the episode with Shelley Shephard Gray Shelley Shepard Gray has been writing her award-winning Christian novels since 2000. Today I’m delighted to have her on Book Talk to discuss her latest, Unforgiven. Like many, when she started writing, it was a new hobby. She wanted to be a principal, but one day forgot …
Book Talk: Nicole Deese Listen to the episode with Nicole Deese Nicole Deese is one of those people I would love to hang out with. Our two extroverted selves would have too much fun catching up on all things life and writing. Until we can actually do that, recording Book Talk episodes is a fun way to connect and welcome …
The Vanished Celebration! I love to Celebrate! So I decided to throw an online party for The Vanished. I know. Most people celebrate the week that the book releases, but life was full. So I’m celebrating now. The beginning of May. And I didn’t want to celebrate by just giving a book away, not that there’s anything wrong with that. …
This is finals week on campus, and I’m furiously grading as students take finals and pack up their dorm rooms and apartments. At the same time, I’m working on the second round of edits for the sequel to The Vanished while beginning to think about the main characters for the third book in the series. Writing is a lot like …
Since 2017, Joanna Davidson Politano has entertained readers with her immersive novels steeped in history, intrigue, and romance. In her newest narrative, The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple, Politano once again whisks readers away to Edwardian England, where an unlikely duo—an underground investigator and a silent-film actress—join forces to uncover secrets and solve cases. But the most baffling case still …
Have you ever had a season where you’ve had to make hard choices? Choosing to say no to one thing to say yes to another? This week I had to say no to a book contract with an independent collection that I really wanted to say yes to, to make space for my family. I agonized over the choice. I …
Y’all know I love Jaime Jo Wright and her books. In fact she was on Book Talk Friday for Night Falls in Predicament Avenue and you can find the links to listen or watch here. BOOK DESCRIPTION As the walls of the house at Predicament Avenue reveal their hidden truths, two women–generations apart–discover that fear and foreboding are no …