Maribel Garcia – Book Club Babble

Greetings from Book Club Babble! We wanted to both congratulate this year's winners of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards and keep our readers updated on next week's ceremony. We have asked Christopher Locke, E... Read More...

5 Tips for Authors to Promote during COVID-19

Maribel Garcia

on Books, on Publishing, Writing during the Covid-19 Crisis

Today is World Book Day and the good folks at PR by the Book would like to share these five tips for authors to promote their book during COVID-19. They are also doing their part to promote a digital learning... Read More...

Las Comadres para las Americas connects Latinas around the World through the love for literature…

Maribel Garcia

Literary Lagniappe

Now Comadres para las Americas wants you to know about the Lideramos Fellowship! LIDERAMOS is offering eight Fellowships to Latino leadership program directors, staff, and alumni in 2020 ... Read More...

Finding Strength in Susceptibility by REBECCA FAYE SMITH GALLI

Maribel Garcia

Writing during the Covid-19 Crisis

Across the globe, a coronavirus culture is emerging, and forcing us all to adapt to a new normal. Here at Book Club Babble we send nothing but good thoughts, shine and healthy vibes out to our readers. We also... Read More...

Calling all Authors: AuthorBuzz and BookMovement Can Help You Connect!

Maribel Garcia

Book Club Profiles, Book Club Questions, on Books, on Publishing, Product Reviews

Recently, M.J. Rose of AuthorBuzz shared the following letter from Pauline Hubert, Founder of BookMovement. She answers the question: What Do Book Clubs Want Right Now? Dear Authors & Publishers-... Read More...

Super Humans, Suspense, and Intrigue: An interview with A.M. Wilhelm about her recent thriller Brainstorm

Maribel Garcia

Interviews

In A.M. Wilhelm's debut thriller Brainstorm, we first learn about Melissa, a mother in search of the child she once dropped off at the Sunshine Children's Home in D.C. eight years ago. When she discovers that t... Read More...

A Novel Idea and a Labor of Love: The Story of a South Philly Bookstore

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Literary Lagniappe, on Books, on Reading

Maribel Garcia: You two have a very special story. Can you tell us how two newly-weds, working multiple jobs decided to get into the bookselling business and acquired their own store? Christina and Alex: The... Read More...

Daralyse Lyons, author of Yoga Cocaine, on Memoir Writing

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Literary Lagniappe, Memoir, on Creativity, on Writing

I never expected to make the transition to writing memoir. As a long-time novelist, I was used to fabricating stories – as opposed to recounting them. But then I realized that the most memorable, most “true,”... Read More...

See something, Say nothing: An interview with Pamela Fernandes about her recent thriller Painting Kuwait Violet

Maribel Garcia

Interviews

What happens when a young college graduate, Violet Baretto leaves her home in India to work in oil-rich Kuwait as a maid for a wealthy Kuwaiti woman? She stands up, not just for herself, but for the most vulne... Read More...

An Interview with Elizabeth Mosier, Author of Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home (New Rivers Press, 2019).

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Memoir

Drawing from her seven-year experience as a technician at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park Archaeology Laboratory as well as her own personal experience, Elizab... Read More...

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

Chatting with Emily Bleeker about What It Seems

An Adult Conversation with Brandy Ferner

Son of the Sea, Daughter of the Sun: An Interview with Marc Graham

Super Humans, Suspense, and Intrigue: An interview with A.M. Wilhelm about her recent thriller Brainstorm

Watch What You Say: A Colorful Suspense by George Weinstein

A Novel Idea and a Labor of Love: The Story of a South Philly Bookstore

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

Educated by Tara Westover

Best of 2019 – Our Favorite Reads!

Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut Books – A Winning Series!

Unholy Faith – A Review of DEATH IN THE COVENANT by D.A. Bartley

Angie Kim’s successful debut novel Miracle Creek is an emotional look at parenting and coming-of-age wrapped up in a whodunit

Paula McLain’s Circling the Sun Showcases Intrepid Female Adventurer in 1920s Kenya

Up for a Russia Spy Thriller Not on the Nightly News? Try Red Sparrow

Does the movie version of The Glass Castle hold up?

Is Everything, Everything Worth Watching?

Looking for an Adult Adventure Movie? Try The Lost City of Z

Lauren Oliver’s YA hit, Before I Fall, Hits the Silver Screen. Is it Worth Watching?

Fences: From Playwright to Screenplay

Who Will Win on Oscars Night? Hidden Figures Gets Our Vote

Why Read? My Top Eight Reasons

5 Tips for Authors to Promote during COVID-19

Las Comadres para las Americas connects Latinas around the World through the love for literature…

Calling all Authors: AuthorBuzz and BookMovement Can Help You Connect!

IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards – The Show Must Go On… Virtually!

5 Tips for Authors to Promote during COVID-19

Las Comadres para las Americas connects Latinas around the World through the love for literature…

Finding Strength in Susceptibility by REBECCA FAYE SMITH GALLI

Calling all Authors: AuthorBuzz and BookMovement Can Help You Connect!

Super Humans, Suspense, and Intrigue: An interview with A.M. Wilhelm about her recent thriller Brainstorm

A Novel Idea and a Labor of Love: The Story of a South Philly Bookstore

Daralyse Lyons, author of Yoga Cocaine, on Memoir Writing

See something, Say nothing: An interview with Pamela Fernandes about her recent thriller Painting Kuwait Violet

An Interview with Elizabeth Mosier, Author of Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home (New Rivers Press, 2019).

Author Maribel Garcia