Robert Inman Offers Political Intrigue With a Southern Twist in “The Governor’s Lady”
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In this episode 128, we visit with Robert “Bob” Inman, author of “The Governor’s Lady,” and other novels.
Library Journal says of “The Governor’s Lady” that “Inman beautifully blends old-fashioned Southern storytelling with tense political drama. Readers with an interest in American politics, fierce women, or family relationships will enjoy this novel, whose strongly developed characters and plot suspense will keep them from putting this book down until the very last page.”
D.G. Martin, host of “North Carolina Bookwatch” on UNC-TV says its “…a terrific story with a cast of unusual characters” and Lee Smith, author of Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger says that “Robert Inman hits the ground running and keeps up the pace in this suspenseful page-turner, which takes us behind the headlines as a Southern governor’s wife assumes the office herself so he can run for president. The real question is, how does Robert Inman know so much about state politics, public marriages, and human nature? And how did he come up with such believable characters—not only the ambitious ex-governor and his plucky, likable wife, but also the fascinating hangers-on who attach themselves to any rising political figure? The Governor’s Lady—a heady mix of sex and sexism, politics and greed, trust and perfidy—is as timely as the morning’s news.”
Bob starts the show reading from the beginning of “The Governor’s Lady,” a good place to start.
Connect with the author
Check out the author’s website here: www.robert-inman.com
Check out the author’s social media here:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/BobInman
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.inman.712
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertinman/
About the Author
Robert Inman is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter from Elba, Alabama where he began his writing career in junior high school with his hometown weekly newspaper. He left a 31-year career in television journalism in 1996 to devote full time to fiction writing.
He is the author of five novels: Home Fires Burning (1987), Old Dogs and Children (1991), Dairy Queen Days (1997), Captain Saturday (2002), all published by Little, Brown and his latest, The Governor’s Lady (2013). Inman also has written screenplays for six motion pictures for television, two of which have been “Hallmark Hall of Fame” presentations. His script for The Summer of Ben Tyler, a Hallmark production, won the Writers’ Guild of America Award as the best original television screenplay of 1997. His other Hallmark feature was Home Fires Burning, a 1989 adaptation of his novel.
Inman’s latest stage play is Liberty Mountain, a drama about the settling of the Carolinas and the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain. It is staged every summer at the Joy Performance Center in Kings Mountain, NC. And in fact, his ancestor, Col. James Williams, was the highest ranking Patriot killed in the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain.
Inman has been selected as “Outstanding Alumnus” of the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences, and was inducted into the Alabama Communication Hall of Fame. He his wife, live in Conover and Boone, North Carolina.
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Our mid-roll guest this week is Fabi Preslar, owner of Spark Publications, a national, award-winning, independent publishing firm specializing in the design of niche magazines, special publications, and independently published books for print, digital, and interactive media.
In this mid-roll, Fabi discusses who she helps authors meet their goals
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