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

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...

What to Read if You’re Mourning the end of JANE THE VIRGIN – by Spark Press

Amy Wilhelm

Literary Lagniappe, Reviews

Please note this post first appeared on August 29, 2019 on SparkPress. If you’ve been following Jane from the very beginning, seeing this show come to a close might be very bittersweet. This American telenov... Read More...

An Interview with Kim Hooper, Author of Cherry Blossoms

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Can someone truly abandon their will to survive? And if they do, how does ordinary life test that will? From the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel People Who Knew Me comes the story of thirty-four-... Read More...

Ebook-only Publishing Platform for Short Books: An Interview with Industry Game-Changer Brooke Warner

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, on Books, on Publishing

Classic novels can be intimidating. Tomes like Charlotte Brontë's 600-page Jane Eyre or even the source material for all of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones collection may not always be what appeals to you.... Read More...

An Interview with the author Sarahlyn Bruck

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

An Interview with the author Sarahlyn Bruck If you are, like so many of us, obsessed with a good book and home design shows, well, then Sarahlyn Bruck’s Designer You just may b... Read More...

An Interview with M.J. Rose, founder of AuthorBuzz.com

Maribel Garcia

Interviews

In 1998, when Google was barely a technological zygote, an aspiring author was having a difficult time selling two of her novels, not because publishers were not really excited about them, but because they were... Read More...

Lucky Broken Girl is about so much more than you think…An Interview with Ruth Behar

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Lucky Broken Girl is the story of Ruthie Mizrahi and her family. They have recently emigrated from Castro’s Cuba to New York City. In this story, we encounter a young child who is finally beginning to gain con... Read More...

The Author’s Cut with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, The Author's Cut

Rebecca Faye Smith Galli (Becky), author of Rethinking Possible: A Memoir of Resilience, is a weekly columnist who lives in Baltimore, Maryland and writes about love, loss, and healing. A Morehead-Cain Scholar ... Read More...

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Maribel Garcia

Reviews

AMERILEXICOPHOBIA: What’s that you ask? According to Lynne Murphy, an American linguistics professor, but longtime U.K. resident, it is an illness. It’s a form of distress that the British suffer from, an af... Read More...

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia

Book Club Questions, Interviews, Memoir, on Writing, Reviews

In this memoir, we meet Becky Galli. We are first introduced to the author's life while she is safely ensconced in a pretty idyllic 1960s southern upbringing-complete with the pastor father and a stay-at-ho... Read More...

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