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C. P. Lesley

Oct 30, 20196 min read

Spotlight on P. K. Adams

As much as I love historical fiction—especially historical fiction set in Russia and Eastern Europe (assuming the authors know what...

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Joan Schweighardt

Aug 30, 20194 min read

Spotlight on Joy Castro

It’s my great pleasure to interview Joy Castro for this Spotlight feature. With her permission I’d like to introduce her with her recent...

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Joan Schweighardt

Jun 28, 20195 min read

Spotlight on Faye Rapoport DesPres

With this post, Five Directions Press author Joan Schweighardt—the author of The Last Wife of Attila the Hun and Before We Died, among...

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C. P. Lesley

Aug 5, 20185 min read

Interview with Kate Braithwaite

It’s been a while since we’ve hosted an author interview here on our blog, but when we learned that Kate Braithwaite, an author who...

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Courtney J. Hall

Jul 15, 20172 min read

Spotlight on Denise Allan Steele

You’ve stated that you were inspired to write Rewind when your kids asked you about “the olden days.” What made you decide to write about...

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Courtney J. Hall

Apr 28, 20174 min read

Spotlight on Claudia H. Long

When did you start writing, and how does it tie into your “regular life”? Oh my… I started writing fiction when my oldest child was...

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Courtney J. Hall

Dec 19, 20162 min read

Spotlight on Mary Martin Devlin

Where did you get the idea for Precious Pawn? At Mount Holyoke one of my best friends taught in the French Department and used the...

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Courtney J. Hall

Sep 21, 20165 min read

Spotlight on Shelly Reuben

You previously worked as an arson investigator and a PI. What inspired you to turn to writing? Actually, it was the other way around. I...

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C. P. Lesley

May 15, 20163 min read

Books We Loved, May 2016

Jennifer Robson, Moonlight over Paris (William Morrow, 2016) This novel about post-war Paris and the Lost Generation is as sparkling and...

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C. P. Lesley

Apr 14, 20162 min read

Books We Loved, Apr. 2016

Anjali Mitter Duva, Faint Promise of Rain (She Writes Press, 2014) A rare rainstorm greets the birth of a girl into the family of the...

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Courtney J. Hall

Mar 17, 20164 min read

Spotlight on Sophie Perinot

What first drew you to the royal court of France? The roots of my love of French history lie in two things. First, when I was young I got...

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C. P. Lesley

Jan 15, 20162 min read

Books We Loved, Jan. 2016

This is the first of our monthly “Books We Loved” posts. They are not recommendations, exactly—everyone’s taste differs—but if you enjoy...

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Courtney J. Hall

Dec 20, 20153 min read

Spotlight on Liza Perrat

Where did you get the idea for the Bone Angel Trilogy? The idea for the first in the series, Spirit of Lost Angels, came to me on a...

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Courtney J. Hall

Sep 3, 20152 min read

Spotlight on Ariadne Apostolou

How does your second novel, West End Quartet, relate to Seeking Sophia, your debut novel? WEQ is actually four related novellas about...

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C. P. Lesley

Sep 1, 20151 min read

Welcome to Our Newsletter Archive

Here you will find the highlights of our past quarterly newsletters: interviews with authors, books we recommend as worth reading, and...

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