Tomorrow my family flies back from England where we’ve been for the last two and a half weeks for study abroad. It’s been a great time of working and exploring. One of my favorite things to do when traveling is to explore bookshops. There are so many amazing ones all over London, Oxford, and Bath. We literally had to buy …
Book Talk: Gabrielle Meyer
Book Talk: Gabrielle Meyer Listen to the episode with Gabrielle Meyer Some authors are simply a delight to talk with, and Gabrielle Meyers is one of those. The fact she made time to chat in the middle of a week with a book launch, edits, book deadline, and proposal? I get tired just typing all that up! For a Lifetime …
Book Talk: Angela Carlisle
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
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
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
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
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 …
Celebrating The Vanished with a Big Giveaway!
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. …
The Vanished is 2 weeks old and a Giveaway!
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 …
The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple
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 …