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Ep. 176: Nancy Jooyoun Kim Explores the Consequences of Family Secrets and Misunderstandings in What We Kept To Ourselves

Today New York Times bestselling author Nancy Jooyoun Kim is here to discuss What We Kept to Ourselves, the much anticipated follow-up to Reese's Book Club Pick, The Last Story of Mina Lee. Nancy began writing this riveting new novel twenty years ago and it follows a family's search for answers after the disappearance of their mother.

Ep. 175: Aimie K. Runyan Shares the Recipe for Creating Her Treat of a Novel, A Bakery in Paris

This week, international bestselling author Aimee K. Runyan is here to discuss her new historical novel, A Bakery in Paris, which tells the story of two courageous women of different eras connected by a quaint French bakery.

Ep. 174: Vanessa Riley Gives Us a Master Class in All Things Researching and Writing Historical Fiction

This week, I’m thrilled to have acclaimed historical novelist Vanessa Riley here to discuss Murder in Drury Lane, which portrays the true diversity of the Regency-era and the hidden intrigue of England’s abolitionist movement, with an engaging heroine who has a talent for sleuthing.

Ep. 173: Sara Johnson Allen on the Road to Down Here We Come Up, a Propulsive, Provocative Debut

Today my guest is Sara Johnson Allen, author of the debut novel, Down Here We Come Up, which was the winner of the 2022 Big Moose Prize and just released from Black Lawrence Press.

Ep 172: Nina Simon on the Bestselling Debut Novel She Wrote as a Love Letter to Her Mom

This week my guest is Nina Simon, author of the debut novel, Mother Daughter Murder Night,  a Reese’s Book Club Pick, New York Times Bestseller, Indie Next Pick, and more. 

Ep. 171: Bryn Turnbull on the Art Forging Heroines of the Paris Deception

This week, internationally bestselling author Bryn Turnbull is here to delve into The Paris Deception, an enthralling novel about art theft and forgery in Nazi-occupied Paris, and two brave women who risk their lives rescuing looted masterpieces from Nazi destruction.

Ep. 170: Sandra A. Miller on Seasons of the Writing Life and a Creative Process with Some “Big Magic”

This week, Sandra A. Miller is here to discuss her new literary suspense novel, Wednesdays at One, and the creative process which was sprinkled with a little bit of pixie dust, dedication,  and some "Big Magic".

Ep. 169: Lynn Hightower on Confronting Grief and Escaping to France in The Beautiful Risk

This week, internationally bestselling author Lynn Hightower is here to discuss The Beautiful Risk, a provocative thriller about the collateral damage of grief and the adrenaline of revenge.

Ep. 168: Denene Millner on the Story Behind Her Powerful New Multigenerational Novel

This week, Denene Millner takes us "behind the book" with One Blood, a powerful new novel which follows three women from The Great Migration, to the civil unrest of the 1960s, to  the quest for women’s equality in the early 2000s. This is one of the most compelling, beautifully written books I've read in years and I've been recommending it to everyone I see.

Ep. 167: Virginia Pye on on the Literary Women of Gilded Age Boston

This week, Boston author Virginia Pye discusses The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann, a historical novel which she calls a love letter to books and authors and to the literary city she adores. It came to be as she imagined being a young woman writing books in Boston’s male-dominated publishing industry of the 19th century.