on Books

Mina, a London-based travel writer, returns to her family's home in Sardinia to bury an aunt. With her mother also gravely ill, she worries that her family's history will be lost as the last of that generation ... Read More...

Author Spotlight – Delilah Dawson

Tabitha Lord

Interviews, on Books, on Creativity, on Publishing, on Writing

Delilah Dawson first caught my attention when she wrote a short story for the Star Wars franchise titled Star Wars: The Perfect Weapon. When I looked into her other work, I learned she had an impressive resume ... Read More...

What Do You Do When the Husband You Love Becomes a Woman?

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, on Books, Reviews

“I can’t do it anymore,” Fred said. “I’ve tried being a man. I’ve been everything on my list that would make me one. I’ve been a soldier, a firefighter, a rancher, a fisherman, a husband, and a father. And still, I’m not me. I need to be true to who I am,”... Read More...

Books We Love: Our 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

Kristin Jacobson

Literary Lagniappe, on Books

Do you have a book lover on your holiday shopping list? Here are a few recommendations from our very talented literary critics that are sure to please even the most discerning reader. Tabitha Lord ... Read More...

The Inside Scoop on Small Press Publishing – Q&A With Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press

Tabitha Lord

Interviews, Literary Lagniappe, on Books, on Publishing, on Writing

Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press I'm so pleased to welcome Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press, to Book Club Babble today. Originally, I was planning to talk with her ... Read More...

Eat, Pray, Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir

Maribel Garcia

on Books, Reviews

Eat, Pray, Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir It’s been ten years since the publication of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray Love, so to honor the anniversary she invited her readers to submit their own essays about how the... Read More...

Interview with Helen Reese, Author of Project EX

Maribel Garcia

Book Club Profiles, Interviews, on Books, Reviews

Book Club Babble welcomes author Helen Reese and talks about her experiences as a first-time novelist and self-published writer. Helen, thank you for being here with us today. First of all, tell us about yo... Read More...

Go Set a Watchman: Listening to the Hard Truth

Kate Newton

on Books

Clichés may be the bane of good writing, but sometimes there’s no easier way to say I wish I had more time to read, than, well, I wish I had more time to read. I don’t even wonder where the time went, because I... Read More...

Is There Gender Bias in Publishing? A Female Writer’s Pseudonym Experiment

Kelly Sarabyn

on Books, on Writing

Catherine Nichols wrote an interesting article about querying her novel first under her own name, and then under a man’s name, as a kind of scientific experiment. The results were depressing: the "male" writer received 17 requests out of 50 queries sent, and t... Read More...

Need an Antidote to the Summer Doldrums? Your Favorite Books Go to the Movies!

Maribel Garcia

on Books, Should I Watch?

It’s that time of year. In the literary calendar, the month of August is that blasé space between all of the book hoopla of June and July’s great “beach reads” and the much-anticipated literary debuts of autumn... Read More...