Amy Wilhelm, Author at Book Club Babble

Writer is an interesting term. While it refers to people who may write novels, articles, poems or blogs it doesn’t necessarily mean someone who earns money from doing so, or someone who releases or publishes an... Read More...

How To Write a Kick-ass Love Scene – guest post by Sarah Echavarre Smith

Amy Wilhelm

Literary Lagniappe, on Writing

We're delighted to host this guest post by Sarah Echavarre Smith, author of On Location. The thought of writing a love scene sends many authors running for the hills. But love scenes are my favorite scenes t... Read More...

Why Are You Struggling to Write, And What Can You Do?

Amy Wilhelm

Literary Lagniappe, on Writing

Writing doesn’t always come naturally. It can take time and often a considerable amount of effort. You need to be ready to face a few cases of writer’s block. There are a range of reasons why you might be strug... Read More...

The World Played Chess – Dugoni’s Beautiful Symbiosis of Writer and Reader

Amy Wilhelm

Reviews, The Author's Cut

Reading Robert Dugoni's The World Played Chess is akin to dabbing on a pleasing perfume. As it seeps into your skin and melds with you, you realize the synergy between scent and skin has created something extra... Read More...

A Novelist’s Cyber-Travel – Guest Post by Cai Emmons

Amy Wilhelm

Guest Writer, Literary Lagniappe

One of the rewarding aspects of novel-writing is the opportunity it affords to travel the world. Never has this been more true for me than when I was writing and researching Sinking Islands. The premise of the ... Read More...

The Space Between Loss and Healing – A Guest Post by Tracy Shawn

Amy Wilhelm

Literary Lagniappe, on Reading, on Writing

Floating Underwater was inspired by personal history and sheer imagination. Having suffered through two miscarriages myself, I wanted to write about how a character deals with that particular loss. I added the ... Read More...

The Author’s Cut with Matthew FitzSimmons

Amy Wilhelm

Literary Lagniappe, The Author's Cut

I What can I say? I absolutely adore Matthew's book Constance. His protagonist, Con, is a self-aware bad-ass who investigates her own disappearance using the body of her clone. Want to know more? Watch, and I ... Read More...

The Author’s Cut with Jeanette Escudero

Amy Wilhelm

The Author's Cut

If you missed this fun and insightful interview, you can watch it here. Want to learn more about The Apology Project before you watch? READ THE REVIEW ... Read More...

Charming, Authentic, and Powerful – The Apology Project by Jeanette Escudero

Amy Wilhelm

Reviews

Amelia Montgomery, a talented and notoriously tough attorney, has forged her career with a take-no-prisoners attitude, leaving a long trail of broken relationships in her wake. Her lack of compassion has left h... Read More...

Art and Words Collide: How Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Other Sequential Art Has Changed the World

Amy Wilhelm

Literary Lagniappe

Comic books have played a major role in shaping the world as we know it. They were created to entertain, but comic creators had no idea that they would change the course of history. In many ways, comic books ar... Read More...

Come Aboard the Starship Horizon: An Interview with Tabitha Lord

Book Club Questions for Good Morning, Midnight

Book Club Questions for Rita Williams-Garcia’s A Sitting in St. James

Spotlight on What We Leave Behind – Christine Gallagher Kearney’s Debut Historical Fiction Novel

Rachel Howzell Hall And What Never Happened

Your Next Book Club Read – Snakes of St. Augustine by Ginger Pinholster

The Best Laid Plans – Guest Post by Mark Goldblatt

Disgruntled

Should you read YA book, Murder on a Summer Break?

Book Club Questions for Project Hail Mary

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – Book Club Questions for a Timeless Classic

Book Club Questions for Circe by Madeline Miller

Book Club Questions for The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Book Club Questions for Good Morning, Midnight

Why BCB Thinks Dune Will Be A Spectacular Movie

Should I Watch The People We Hate at the Wedding?

Should I Watch All the Old Knives? – Joint Review with Katie Kupstas

The Best Book-To-Movie Adaptations To Hit Your Screens

The Top Fantasy Book Adaptations to Look Forward To

Should I Watch Chaos Walking

The Expanse Series Versus the Books: The Character of James Holden Broken Down

Why Read? My Top Eight Reasons

Middle Grade Author Dani Resh Talks About Her Writing Journey

Journey to Ancient Greece with Author Sophia Kouidou-Giles!

Spotlight on What We Leave Behind – Christine Gallagher Kearney’s Debut Historical Fiction Novel

How Novelists Get Started On Writing Books

Why Are You Struggling to Write, And What Can You Do?

The World Played Chess – Dugoni’s Beautiful Symbiosis of Writer and Reader

A Novelist’s Cyber-Travel – Guest Post by Cai Emmons

The Space Between Loss and Healing – A Guest Post by Tracy Shawn

The Author’s Cut with Matthew FitzSimmons

The Author’s Cut with Jeanette Escudero

Charming, Authentic, and Powerful – The Apology Project by Jeanette Escudero

Art and Words Collide: How Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Other Sequential Art Has Changed the World

Author Amy Wilhelm