Award-winning author Graciela Kenig joins me for this month’s Author Spotlight. Graciela’s political thriller, The Plans They Made, features a strong female protagonist and offers action-packed adventure! Read on to find out how Graciela comes up with the trials and tribulations her characters experience in the novel. On to the interview! When did you first…

This month I’m welcoming back Melissa Green, writing as M.M. Colt, to the Author Spotlight. You might remember her from September 2019 where we talked about how she got into writing, as well as how we met. She is one of the first people I met at a 2018 writer’s conference and we’ve stayed in…

This month I’m happy to welcome Jule Kucera to the Author Spotlight. I met Jule in a writer’s sprint group several years ago and enjoy both her fiction and nonfiction works. Jule’s Storywheel is a tool I use regularly. Storywheel explains story structure in a way that is easy to understand and implement. I highly…

The January 2024 Author Spotlight is with Helen Garraway. Helen and I met in Miami, FL at the Readers’ Favorite Awards ceremony. I enjoyed chatting with this USA Today Best Selling Author and wanted to share her work with you. She’s answered some questions about why she writes and what she is working on for…

You like books, right? Yes, I knew you did. But do you have a hard time finding the right book? There are lots of ways to discover a book. Word of mouth is my favorite. When your mom, dad, sister, brother, best friend, or second cousin of your next door neighbor’s plumber recommends something, you…

I finished judging a writing contest last week. Having entered many contests in the last few years, I thought I knew what I was getting into. Turns out, I didn’t have a clue what it was like to be on the other side of the contest. About 150 stories came across my desk to be…

Something a little different this time for our spotlight. I wanted to share with you a website that offers a newsletter service highlighting free or discounted books. The Fussy Librarian is a website that matches readers to their chosen book genre as well as content preferences. Basically, you can look for a Women’s Fiction book…

This week’s spotlight is back on Krissy Baccaro. You might remember her from January 2019 where she and I talked during a polar vortex. Well this time around, we chatted during the pandemic about her recent book launch, Buried Secrets: An Ella Perri Mystery Book 1. To refresh your memory, Krissy is a fifth-grade teacher and…

This month’s spotlight is a bit different. Instead of one person, I’d like to introduce you to Active Alumni Writers. Actually, this is a bit of a reintroduction. You may remember the group from the Once Upon A Story anthology published last year. I’m excited to share that another anthology is in the works, and this…

This month’s spotlight is on Kimberly Kessler. Her name may sound familiar as her book, According to Plan: A Novel, is my favorite so far from the The Modern Mrs. Darcy’s 2020 Reading Challenge. In addition to reading her book, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting her at a Story Grid conference and working with…