GSMC Book Review Podcast

Sarah interviews Leah DeCesare, author of Forks, Knives and Spoons.  In her debut novel Leah tells the story of Amy, who heads off to college with her father's description of guys fresh in her head.  Amy's dad tells her that college guys can be classifed as either Forks, Knives, or Spoons, and thus the Utensil Classification System is born.  Soon Amy's friends and dorm-mates are using the system a...

Sarah and special co-host Tate interview Alistair Hendrie, author of Fight Game: The Untold Story of Women's MMA in Britain.  The book includes interviews with Britain's top female fighters, from pioneers such as Rosi Sexton, Danielle West, and Laura Salone to recent contenders like Joanne Calderwood and Kate Jackson. To learn more about this book and read an excerpt please go to Alistair's websit...

Sarah interviews Greg Levin, author of In Wolves' Clothing.  The book tells the story of Zero Slade, a man who works with an organization dedicated to helping young girls out of a life of human trafficking and the sex trade.  Despite the book's heavier topic, Levin tells the story with warmth and dark humor, and Zero is protagonist that is worth rooting for, even as deeply flawed (ie, human) as he...

Sarah speaks with Mariuccia Milla, author of Meet Me in Milano.  This is Mariuccia's first novel, and tells the story of Melinda and Jonathan, 2 twenty-somethings who used to date and have now moved from New York to Milan, Melinda to find herself, Jonathan to find Melinda.  It is also about Milan itself, and the culture of living abroad.  This is accomplished by a well-rounded cast of characters s...

Sarah speaks with Susan Cupples-Munger about her debut children's book, The Fairies of Glendaren Hills.  The story revolves around Spoon and Myrtle, who not only believe in Fairies and the Fairy kingdom, but are friends with those fairies.  No one else has seen this other world, and think that Spoon is simply making up stories. When Spoon's and Myrtle's son, daugther-in-law, and 4 grandchildren co...

Sarah interviews author Margarita Montimore about her debut novel, Asleep From Day, which comes out on January 10th.  Asleep From Day is a psychological and supsense-filled book about Astrid O'Malley, who wakes up in an ambulance after being hit by a car.  The accident is traumatic enough but she soon learns that she's lost all memory of the 24 hours leading up to the accident.  Worse than that, t...

Sarah interviews Wayne Avrashow, author of Roll the Dice. Roll the Dice is Avrashow's debut novel and features rock star turned political candidate Tyler Sloan.  Sloan has decided, at the age of 50, to retire from music and pursue politics.  His father is a former governor of California and is an influential person in the world of politics, so Sloan is no stranger to the realm.  He doesn't want to...

Sarah speaks with Angela Breidenbach, author of the Montana Beginnings series, specifically about the first book in that series, The Debutante Queen.  The book takes place in Helena, MT in 1889, shortly after Montana became a state.  It combines historical fiction, Christian fiction, and romance to tell the story of Calista Blythe, a young woman who becomes interested and involved in the lives of...

Sarah speaks with author KM Fortune about her Forever Winter Chronicles, a post-apocalyptic, dystopian serial novel.  The serial tells the story of Raven Winter, a woman who is frozen in an avalanche and awakens 127 years later to find the world vastly changed.  There has been a plague, nuclear war, and nothing is as it used to be.  She must learn to survive in this world she knows nothing about w...

Sarah interviews Mary Ann Marlowe, author of A Crazy Kind of Love, which is the 2nd book in the Flirting with Fame Series.  Sarah and Mary Ann spoke about the first book Some Kind of Magic in Episode 27.  A Crazy Kind of Love returns to the world of Some Kind of Magic, this time focusing on Eden's brother Micah and his relationship with a tabloid photographer named Jo.  As the 2 find themselves at...

Sarah speaks with Tess Gerritsen, author of I Know A Secret, the 12th book in the Rizzoli and Isles series.  In this latest book Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are presented with two seemingly unrelated homicides.  As they investigave further, though, they find themselves caught up in an increasingly complex and confusing series of events that neither of them can quite pie...

Sarah interviews author Rebecca Maston about her debut novel, The Wise Ones.  The book tells the story of Adella, a princess in a not-too-distant post-apocalyptic, dystopian world.  Adella's life has been defined and shaped by war and she would love nothing less than for her country to be at peace.  Although she does not see herself as a leader when her mother's desire for power forces Adella to m...

Sarah interviews Carmela Dutra, author of the Little Katie series.  Little Katie and her dog Smudge love going on adventures and learning together.  The books are full of facts and are designed to get children interested in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) subjects.  There are currently 2 books in the series, one where Little Katie and Smudge go to the moon, and a second wh...

Sarah interviews Matty Dalrymple, author of the Ann Kinnear series and the Lizzy Ballard Series.  Ann Kinnear is a person who can sense spirits.  She is a bit conflicted about her gift, but she does use it as both a source of income and to help others.  In The Sense of Death Ann gets involved with Detective Joe Booth when he asks her to help him solve the disappearance of a Philadelphia woman.  Jo...

Sarah interviews Roberta Trahan about her 2 very different genres of fantasy.  They first talk about Roberta's Historical Fantasy Dream Stewards series which is reminiscent of Arthurian legend but takes place 500 years after Camelot.  The story centers on Alwen, a sorceress sworn to protect Hywel, the king who has been foretold to bring peace to the realm.  Next, they speak of Roberta's serial, Th...

Sarah interviews author Laura Heffernan about her Reality Star Series.  There are currently 2 books in this series:  America's Next Reality Star and Sweet Reality, with the final installment, Reality Wedding, coming in March of 2018.  The series centers around Jen, who thinks her life is going pretty well until she loses her job, her boyfriend, and her apartment in rapid succession.  Add to that t...

Sarah interviews Lorena Hughes, author of The Sisters of Alameda Street.  The story centers on Malena, a 20 year old woman who goes searching for answers after her father's suicide and ends up finding more questions.  Namely, she finds a letter written from her mother when she had supposedly died in childbirth with Malena.  This letter sends Malena on a mission to find this woman, who only signs t...

Sarah interviews Meghan Masterson, author of The Wardrobe Mistress, a historical fiction romance centering on a young woman named Gisele who is an under-tire woman in the employee of Marie Antoinette.  Gisele walks in 2 worlds as the French Revolution unfolds, seeing both the side of the Revolutionaries through her relationship with Leon and the side of the royalists through the eyes of the royal...

Sarah interviews K.D. Proctor, author of Meet Me Under the Stars.  In her debut novel Proctor tells the story of Charlie and Nate who are thrown back together after 3 years apart by the dictate's of Charlie's sisters' will, which stipulates that they must work together to create a memorial scholarship fund for the summer camp where they all worked as counselor and which Charlie and Gwen attended a...

Sarah welcomes Marianne Delacourt back to the podcast to talk about the latest book in the Tara Sharp series, Sharp Edge.  In this 4th installment, Tara finds herself once again trying to avoid crime lord Johnny Viaspa, raise a teen who has basically adopted her, use her abilities to read auras to run her investigative agency, and choose between the 2 men in her life.  As if that weren't enough sh...

Sarah reviews Sophie Kinsella's novel, My Not So Perfect Life.  The book tells the story of Katie Brenner who has always dreamed of living the perfect life in London.  If someone were to only know Katie through her Instagram account they would think she does indeed have that perfect life.  But social media rarely tells the whole story and Katie's life soon begins to unravel in ways she couldn't fo...

Sarah interviews Jeanne M Dickson, author of Grounded Hearts.  This debut novel tells the story of a neutral Ireland during World War II.  Nan, an Irish midwife, finds wounded Canadian RAF pilot Dutch Whitney on her doorstep.  All combatants, regardless of which side they were on, were supposed to be turned in to be interned for the duration of the war.  Nan risks everything to hide him while he r...

Author Jason Pellegrini returns to the podcast to discuss his latest endeavor, a new novella calld The Cool Kids.  The novella tells the story of 3 boys who have an adventure together in the summer of 1994, going in search of an ancient myth.  It's also the story of how friendships change us as well as change over time.  It is a fantasy story, a coming of age story, and a story of the evolution of...

Sarah interviews Robinne Lee, author of The Idea of You, which tells the story of Solene and Hayes.  When Solene takes her 13 year old daughter to see the hottest new boy band, August Moon, she meets Hayes and the 2 begin an affair that turns into a relationship.  The catch?  Solene is 39 and Hayes is 20.  What follows is a romance as well as an in-depth look at how society views relationships, wo...

Sarah interviews Kellye Garrett, author of Hollywood Homicide, the first of 3 books in the Detective by Day Mystery Series.  Dayna Anderson is a retired actress in need of money to help save her parents house.  She sees a billboard offering a reward for a hit and run case in Los Angeles and realizes she was there when it happens.  She decides to attempt to help solve the case so she will get the r...