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Author Nancy McCabe discusses her new young adult novel, Vaulting Through Time . A 16-year-old biracial high school student named Elizabeth is coming to the end of her competitive gymnastics career. But that isn't the only thing that has her head spinning. Elizabeth discovers a mystery surrounding about her birth that her mother has kept secret from her. She also finds herself catapulted through t...

Author Maggie Giles discusses her new thriller, Twisted , in which a mysterious drug is believed to be linked to several unsolved murders. When Detective Ryan Boone's investigation finds more questions than answers, he has no choice but to team up with escort service madame Mel Parker to unravel the mystery behind the medication.   Maggie also discusses her debut novel, The Things We Lost . Main c...

Author Heather Dixon discusses her two new releases, Burlington and Last Summer at the Lake House , both of which released this fall. In Burlington , a mother of two moves to a new neighborhood and quickly gets caught up in the drama of the other mothers. However, the schoolyard politics soon take a dark turn when one of the moms goes missing. In Last Summer at the Lake House , three sisters are c...

Author Douglas J. Wood discusses his new book, The Shakespeare Killer . In this thriller, an FBI profiler is on the hunt for a serial killer whose actions indicate that he is taking a particular William Shakespeare quote literally: "kill all the lawyers." Doug took a great deal of care to weave into this story various Shakespeare theories and quotes. The result is a fast-paced police procedural th...

Author C.J. Milacci discusses the first two books in her Talionis series :  Recruit of Talionis and Fugitive of Talionis . These YA sci fi dystopian novels feature main character Bria, a young woman haunted by personal tragedy, who is kidnapped to become a recruit in an army of secret soldiers and forced to fight in a war that she wants no part of. C.J. began with a question: What would happen if...

Author Tim Facciola discusses his new Vengeful Realm series . The first book, The Scales of Balance , is out now. Tim describes his fantasy series as Game of Thrones meets Spartacus's rebellion from Rome. Told from seven different points of view, The Scales of Balance follows the story of several main characters, one of whom is Zephyrus, a gladiator with amnesia and a mysterious prophecy who finds...

Author Michael C. Bland discusses the first two books in his science fiction trilogy: The Price of Safety and The Price of Rebellion . The story is set in the year 2047, and Michael started with the premise that technology can make our lives better, but it can also be used against us. What if, while no one was paying attention, someone out there was actually paying attention to everything. In Mich...

Author Mark Angelo discusses his children's picture book, Can We Play Baseball, Mr. DeMille? , which is inspired by events from his own childhood. When Mark was a young boy, he and his brother Chris shared a love of baseball. The Dodgers had just moved to Los Angeles, and baseball fever was sweeping the city. Mark and Chris were looking for a place to play with their friends. Open spaces were diff...

Author Reenita Hora discusses her book, Operation Mom: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life and a Man . This YA rom-com novel features a 17-year-old native of Mumbai and her mother, a middle-aged Punjabi woman. Reenita notes that this book is a work of fiction, not a self-help guide, and is more comedy than romance. In fact, it is inspired by the comedy of her everyday existence and the zany, feisty and f...

Author Brooklyn Quintana discusses her latest book, Blood in the Water . It is the second book in her Fynneas Fog series and the follow up to her debut novel, Nine of Swords . Blood in the Water is a young adult fantasy novel that takes place at a nightmarish military academy on a tropical island. A catastrophic event has changed everything for Fynneas Fog and his friends, and they must pick up th...

Author Laura Moe and actor Preston Geer discuss their collaboration on the audio book for Laura's young adult novel, Breakfast with Neruda . When the time came for the novel to be made into an audio book, Laura began searching for the perfect narrator and found Preston Geer. In addition to being a working actor in Hollywood, Preston is the narrator of almost 70 audio books, so Breakfast with Nerud...

Author Candace Kade discusses her new novel, Enhanced , book one in The Hybrid series. Enhanced is a young adult novel set in a part of our world known as the Asian Federation in the year 2123. This is a time when everyone has genetic enhancements, if they can afford them. The main character, a young woman named Lee Urban, unfortunately was born a Natural, someone lacking such enhancements. Lee's...

Author Amanda Lees discusses her latest book, The Midwife's Child . It is the third book in a series set during World War II featuring female agents fighting in the Resistance. Amanda admits that The Midwife's Child is the hardest book she has ever written. While the book is based on a real-life love story, the novel is partly set in Auschwitz. Amanda worked hard on this book as a way to honor tho...

Author J.L. Delozier discusses her new novel, The Photo Thief , a modern gothic murder mystery. In this book, a grieving detective meets a troubled, epileptic teen who claims to be able to speak to the dead—and she is convinced the death of her socialite mother was no accident. As a physician-turned-author, J.L. finds herself inspired by science that exits on what she calls "the edge of reality"—b...

Author Claire Seeber discusses her new book, The Birthday Reunion . Claire is the author of nine books, all of them dark, twisty, psychological thrillers. The Birthday Reunion is no exception. This novel is a twist on the domestic thriller, featuring four middle-aged women who were best friends in their early twenties but haven't spoken in twenty years. When three of them are invited to the fourth...

Author Paul Lamb discusses his new book, One-Match Fire . This novel is a love story—involving the love between grandfather, father and son, as well as the love they share for a little cabin in the Ozarks. The cabin is a place where the characters can leave their lives behind and just be themselves, and it was inspired by Paul's own cabin in the Ozarks. This novel was never meant to be more than a...

Best-selling author Matthew Farrell discusses his latest book, The Woman at Number 6 , a gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist. Matthew loves to write characters that a lot of readers can relate to—typical families, suburban neighborhoods, and so on. But what he really loves is to interject turmoil into that world, to place his normal characters into abnormal situations where somethi...

Author Derek Baxter discusses his book, In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father . Derek's book is about a little-known travel guide written by Thomas Jefferson in 1788 titled, "Hints for Americans Traveling in Europe." Derek came across this travel guide online and was surprised to find out that it wasn't talked about much by historians. Armed wit...

Author Frank Reteguiz discusses his American Lore series. What started out as a single story eventually became an interconnected series of novels. There are currently six books available in the series, which is a unique mashup of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Frank draws inspiration for his novels from Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and his own experience as a former police officer. He also li...

Author Michael Kaufman discusses the first two books in his Jen Lu mystery series— The Last Exit and The Last Resort . Set in Washington, D.C. about ten years in the future, this series of political thrillers features two main characters, Detective Jen Lu and a sentient bio-computer named Chandler, who happens to be implanted in Jen Lu's brain. Jen and Chandler come up against global conspiracies,...

Author Jessica Hatch discusses her new novel, How to Keep a Husband for Ten Days . This rom-com story is a second-chance romance about a couple in the middle of breaking up who find themselves having to pretend to be in love with each other for a little while longer. The book features a cast of characters that is loosely based on a group of friends Jessica met when they all lived in the same old b...

Author Melody Johnson discusses her latest sci-fi romance, Sight Beyond the Sun , the second book in her Love Beyond series. Melody brings us fresh main characters and a whole new world to explore in this stand-alone novel that involves espionage, an intergalactic human-trafficking ring and an enemies-to-lovers romance. Melody chats about lessons she's learned, working as a hybrid author dealing w...

Author Elma Linz Kanefield discusses her book, Hamlet's Mirror: Reaching Your Potential Onstage and Off . It is a book designed for performing artists, but the advice it contains could apply to all artists and artists-at-heart. Elma's own experience with stage fright as a young performer in NYC led her to become a psychotherapist and to write this book. In Hamlet's Mirror , she discusses why artis...

Author Laury A. Egan discusses her novel, Once, Upon an Island . This coming-of-age story is set on St. Croix in 1966 and follows 16-year-old Olivia and her glamorous mother as they escape to the island following the loss of Olivia's younger brother. Olivia befriends a mysterious Czechoslovakian woman named Sofiya, and the two bond over their mutual grief as long-buried secrets come to light. Laur...

Author Steven C. Harms discusses the first two books in his new thriller series, Give Place to Wrath and The Counsel of the Cunning . In these fast-paced thrillers, Steven's main character is Roger Viceroy, a veteran police detective in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who is recently divorced, wrestling with his own faith, and extremely good at his job of solving murders. Steven's goal with each book is to t...