Synopsis: Ruby Donaldson is fifty-five years old. A year ago, she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Her physician prescribed medication in an attempt to slow the disease’s progress but,…
Synopsis: Justine Jameson is approaching her eighteenth birthday. She had a brief relationship with Keith that ended after only four months. Pregnant and alone, she returned home to live with…
Synopsis: Art Breen was just a baby when, in 1951, his father abandoned him and his mother. She struggled to care for herself and her son, but Father Fergus came…
Synopsis: The first fifty-four years of Lee Kravitz’s life were unremarkable in the sense that he spent them doing what most Americans do: He completed his education and traveled a…
I am thrilled to welcome best-selling author Karen White today! Karen is the author of fourteen novels, including Falling Home, On Folly Beach, and
Synopsis: Frances Baldwin is seventy-four years old. She has known for quite a few months that she was nearing the end of her life. For many years, she enjoyed smoking,…
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…
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,…
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: 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…
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: 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: 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…
Synopsis: Henry Bartolozzi was the love of Heidi’s life and her soul mate. They fell in love quickly while culinary students, married, and doted on each other and their son,…
Synopsis: Shep Knacker wants to “get away from it all.” It is early 2005, and he has been planning “The Afterlife,” as he calls it, for years, vacationing annually with…