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In this episode 129, we visit with Reita Pendry, author of “In the Frame” and four other novels in her Mercy Johnson series.
In these legal thrillers, Mercy Johnson is a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C. who takes on difficult clients and hard-to-win cases.
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In this episode 127, we visit with Lexi Aidyn, author of her debut novel, “Candid,” a sweet romance.
In this love story, a widowed father of two young girls meets and is interested in a young woman who is a career-driven photographer. Believing that his late wife’s parents will not understand his attraction to someone so different and much younger so soon after losing his wife, he keeps his relationship a secret. It’s a secret that catches up with him and it might be too late by the time he realizes that he’s found a second chance at love.
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In this episode 125, we visit with award-winning authors Jeanne Adams and Nancy Northcott, authors of many books, including their companion novellas in the book “Christmas on Outcast Station,” one of the science fiction books in the Outcast Station series.
Jeanne and Nancy team up with Jeanne’s novella, “The Princess Problem,” and Nancy’s novella, “Scorpions for Christmas,” both set on Outcast Station, a backwater posting and the armpit of the Terran colonies in outer space.
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In this episode 123, we meet Catherine Goodman Farley, author of the “Explore with Mimi” children book collection.
The mission of the three book collection is to share lessons in history, conservation and faith with children and their families as they explore the South Carolina Lowcountry with Mimi the deer and her wildlife friends.
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In this episode 121, we visit with Danielle Stewart, USA Today Best Selling author of “The Bend in Redwood Road” and more than thirty other books.
Kirkus Reviews says that “The Bend in Redwood Road” is “an engaging and lifelike representation of two families at a turning point.”
Podcast: Download (Duration: 29:35 — 27.3MB)
In this episode 1119, we visit with Alison Paul Klakowicz, author of “Mommy’s Big, Red Monster Truck,” an epic travel and adventure children’s picture book born of the author’s son’s imagination and love of monster trucks during his toddler years.
Mommy’s Big, Red Monster Truck, Alison’s first children’s book, was the recipient of the Mom’s Choice Awards Gold Award.
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In this episode 117, we visit with Nicole Ayers, author of “Love Notes to My Body” and the companion books, “Love Letters to My Body: Writing My Way to (Self-)Love” and “Writing Your Way to (Self-)Love: A Guided Journal to Help You Love Your Body, One Part at a Time.”
The Love Notes to My Body collection takes readers through the nuanced relationship Nicole has with her body. But because she believes that women universally struggle with body image and self-acceptance, she hopes that readers may catch glimpses of themselves in her stories.
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In this episode 115, we visit with Tracie Barton-Barrett, author of “Buried Deep in Our Hearts,” her debut novel.
The novel follows three families and their lives together with their furry family members. When a cherished animal dies, they lead their community in coming together to support and honor their beloved.
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In this episode 113, we visit with Betsy Mack, author of “Mid-Reach: A Book To Inspire, Empower, And Celebrate Failing While In The Midst of Success.”
Whitney Johnson, CEO and Founder of WLJ Advisors, says: “Writing with…early career professionals in mind, Betsy Mack articulates the importance of not only figuring out what you want to do and where, but knowing who you want to be on the job.”
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In this episode 111, we visit with John Gerdy, scholar, musician, author and illustrator of the book, “Alphabone Orchestra,” a book designed to help children get excited about music and offer adults tidbits of music education through the “Grace Notes” sprinkled throughout.
John is a lifelong musician who has served as an “artist in residence” teaching the Blues to children from Pre-K to grade 6. He performs regularly under the stage name “Willie Marble.”
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In this episode 109, we meet Caleb Johnson, author of “Treeborne.”
Caleb brings us a book set in a small Southern town that is an honorable mention for the Southern Book Prize and longlisted for The Crook’s Corner Book Prize, an exploration of how the past gets mixed up in thoughts of the future and of how home is a story as much as a place.
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In this episode 107, we visit with Donna Love Wallace, author of her debut poetry chapbook, “Between the Stones.”
1 in 8 women will experience invasive breast cancer sometime during their life. With candor and a full range of emotion, Wallace navigates her way in poetry through disparate places and the people that occupy them: the biopsy suite, the grocery store, her closet and a tattoo parlor 350 miles from home.
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In this episode 105, we visit with Michael Croley, author of “Any Other Place.”
Silas House, author of “Southernmost” says: “Like the best writers, Michael Croley takes us into the lives of ordinary people who have been thrust into extraordinary circumstances of everyday life…[it’s] one of the most exciting and beautiful story collections to come down the literary pike in a long time…”
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In this episode 103, we visit with Rachael Brooks, author of “Beads: A Memoir About Falling Apart and Putting Yourself Back Together Again.”
“An eloquent and unsettling story of recovery that features solid advice and encouragement for other trauma victims.”— Kirkus Reviews
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In this episode 101, we visit with Jan Notzon, author of “The Id Paradox” and “Song for the Forsaken,” among other novels.
His novel, “The Id Paradox,” is the story of three friends, Jake, Artie and Connors whose bond was forged during an almost fatal canoe trip in which only Artie’s genius for survival kept them alive. It follows their ill-fated attempt to pass Artie’s family across the border, his capture by a drug cartel and Jake and Connors’s harrowing rescue attempt from a Mexican prison and then from the prison of madness. His latest, “Song For The Forsaken,” chronicles the tale of two sisters and the loss of faith that tests the bond between them.
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In this episode 99, we meet Belinda Smith-Sullivan, author of “Just Peachy.”
Belinda is a chef, author, food writer, spice blends entrepreneur and a commercially-rated pilot who loves to serve, eat and write about peaches.
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In this episode 97, we visit with Matthew Duffus, author of “Swapping Purples for Yellows.”
Matthew is currently an instructor of English and writing center director at Gardner-Webb University. “Swapping Purples for Yellows” this is his debut novel.
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In this episode 95, we visit with Leslie Hooton, author of “Before Anyone Else.”
“A beautiful book,” says Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of “Nothing to See Here and The Family Fang”
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In this episode 93, we visit with M.L. Huie, author of “Spitfire.”
In Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review, “Spitfire” is described as full of “Vibrant characters, international intrigue, gritty action, and a wittily acerbic Ian Fleming, too—who could ask for more?”
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In this episode 91, we visit with Rita Woods, author of “Remembrance.”
Library Journal, with its Starred Review says, “ …This book deserves to be a breakout hit. Woods’s magical realist take on the black female experience will have huge appeal to readers of Marlon James and Tara Conklin.”