I was lucky enough to snag an interview with Simon Fitzmaurice, author of the the beautifully written memoir It‘s Not Yet Dark and filmmaker of The Sound of People and My Name is Emily, and my only regret is that I wasn’t able to publish it before he died in October of last year. (You can read the review… Read More Simon Fitzmaurice interview
Good news: Right as I was packing to head out to Tucson for 10 days I noticed that an excerpt of my semi-final status chapbook Lies, and Saturdays and the accompanying interview is up at Honeysuckle Press. So exciting! The piece is written in a hybrid form that alternates between past and present tense, between first-… Read More Semi-finalist chapbook excerpt and interview up at Honeysuckle Press
I first read Kari Neumeyer’s memoir Bark and Lunge: Saving My Dog From Training Mistakes about half a year ago and immediately wanted to write about it. But my dog was dying and I was afraid that if I wrote a review of a book where (spoiler alert!) someone else’s dog dies, then my dog would… Read More Bark and Lunge (and hello, Kari Neumeyer)
When I read Occasional Soulmates last month, I became so excited that I wanted to call up the author and invite her out to lunch. I imagined drinking tea and talking about men and, you know, having a good ol’ girl talk. Except that Occasional Soulmates is actually written by a man named Kevin Brennan (Kevin,… Read More Hell of a woman (except he’s really a man)
I can’t remember when I first came across Kevin Brennan. Perhaps he commented on my blog or I read a comment he made on another blog. Whatever the case, I soon found his site, “What the Hell,” and discovered his book of short shorts Our Children Are Not Our Children. From the first line I was… Read More Author interview with Kevin Brennan
I first met Molly D. Campbell through a Twitter posting. I don’t remember what it was, but it was funny, the kind of funny that sticks with you and plays on your mind so that hours later you remember it and think, once again: Hey, that was funny. And you chuckle to yourself as you’re… Read More Molly Campbell, tickling the funny bone
Today I was lucky enough to nab an interview with Sherri Hayes, author of the romance and erotic romance novels, Hidden Threat; Slave (Finding Anna Book 1); Need (Finding Anna Book 2), Behind Closed Doors (A Daniels Brothers’ Novel); Red Zone (A Daniels Brothers’ Novel), and a short story, A Christmas Proposal. Hayes lives in central Ohio… Read More Hello, Sherri Hayes
Today, I’m happy to profile romance writer Elizabeth McKenna. McKenna is a full-time technical writer/editor for a large software company who never read romance novels until she received a Nora Roberts bestseller from her sister one Christmas. She was hooked from page one (actually, she admits, she was hooked from the first love scene). McKenna always wanted to write fiction,… Read More Let’s get romantic with Elizabeth McKenna
Today I was lucky enough to snag Olivia Martinez for an author interview. Martinez, the author of the Mistfall series, is a veteran and mother of a little girl named Grace. She’s a native of the Chicago suburbs and spends her time dreaming of warmer places to winter over (I hear you, Olivia!). In her… Read More Hello, Olivia Martinez
I spent the day at Fireside Books out in Palmer, and guess what I did? I got to sign more books. David Cheezem invited me for an early afternoon of signing books in his cozy and wonderful store, and I had such a good time that after we ate lunch, I returned for the rest of… Read More Second book signing, and “Dolls” giveaway
Cinthia Ritchie 