Today I am delighted to welcome author Diana Spechler, author of Skinny and Who by Fire. Overdosing on Yoga by Diana Spechler In my late twenties, two different times, I…
Synopsis: Gray Lachmann’s life feels to her that it matches her name. Gray, gloomy, without hope. Gray is convinced that she killed her father and since his death, she has…
Synopsis: Wesley Lloyd Springer died suddenly on a Thursday evening in the driveway of his home. His wife of forty-four years, Julia, discovered him slumped over the steering wheel of…
Synopsis: Amelia Wilkes is, in most respects, a typical seventeen-year-old high school senior, with big dreams of studying drama at New York University and eventually forging a career as a…
Author Mari L. McCarthy is very straight-forward and honest in her Introduction to 27 Days of Journaling to Health & Happiness: “I’ll tell you right now that if you’re not…
Synopsis: Madeline “Maddie” Singer had no idea anything was amiss until that fateful morning when her mother-in-law suffered a mishap at her home and required medical attention. Steve, Maddie’s husband,…
One thrill that never gets is the moment when a guest post from an author arrives in my email inbox. This post was no exception because it came from popular…
Synopsis: Every day he sits in the same booth in the coffee bar and she brings him his coffee. They strike up a most unusual friendship, this eighty-four-year-old former ballet…
Synopsis: Avalon, Illinois, about ninety minutes from Chicago, is a quintessential small American town. Julia Everts grew up there, but for the past five years, she has barely left her…
Synopsis: Monica Guidry, a New Orleans native, escaped to New York City and spent the last ten years of her life there. She met Julie Holt at an exhibition of…
Synopsis: Alice Wynter left her familial home in Redding, Maine many years ago and never looked back. She married Gerald Dunn, a successful Wall Street lawyer, created an equally successful…
Synopsis: How well do you know your closest friends? Do you know much about their professional pursuits? Do you know their quirks and eccentricities? More importantly, do you know the…
Spencer Seidel’s debut novel, Dead of Wynter, is a thriller with exciting plot twists that keep readers guessing until the very last page. The plot revolves around Alyce Wynter who,…
Synopsis: Imagine yourself living in the woods of Tennessee in a crudely built cabin with no electricity. Picture yourself going into a shed (no more than a lean-to, really) to…
I agreed to read and review Memoirs of a Widowed Mistress in conjunction with the Pump Up Your Book Virtual Book Tour, in large part because of the title and…
Synopsis: Nathan’s new novel, Infidelity, is about to be published and the advance buzz about the book is very positive. As his wife, Sarah, helps him find his shoes so…
Synopsis: Holly is approaching her fiftieth birthday. She is a poet with a deadline about which her publisher keeps nagging her. If she doesn’t get her manuscript completed, she might…
Synopsis: Marianna Sommer has always felt insecure, as though she can never measure up to the expectations of her parents and her community. She has always felt that she is…
Synopsis: Lincoln is twenty-eight years old and holds a couple of master’s degrees. He didn’t know what else to do with his life, so he continued his education. Now, living…
If you are looking for a wonderful writer’s resource book to add to your library or present to a fellow writer as a gift, The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the…
Synopsis: They met during the first class on their first day of law school: Ginger, Laney, Betts, and Mia. It was 1979 and they were discussing Bradwell v. Illinois in…
Synopsis: It has been a difficult spring. Birdie Cousins, divorced after more than thirty years of marriage to Grant, a high-profile New York attorney, is still adjusting to life as…
Synopsis: Peter Webster, a twenty-one-year-old paramedic in rural Vermont, responds to an emergency call that will change his life forever. He pulls Sheila Arsenault from the wreckage of her vehicle.…
Synopsis: Former First Lady Nancy Reagan coined the term “the long goodbye” in relationship to Alzheimer’s disease, referring to the long, arduous, and frequently slow progression of the disease that…