If I could, I’d be standing here with a trumpet to announce the next author on my blog for interviews! This will be Holly Evans’s second time on my blog, and I’m thrilled to have her back. She’s recently had a book release, and is such a wonderful human being. If you aren’t following her, you’re missing out.
I’m also thrilled to have her interview sharing a space on my blog during the release of Lovers and Liars Book 3!
Two interviews in a single day! What fun! I’m thrilled to have RS Williams on my blog today. This lady is just a wonderful and incredibly supportive fellow writer and blogger. If you aren’t following her, you’re missing out!
July is Author Interviews Month here on the good ol’ blog! Since I’m finally publishing the third book in the Lovers and Liars series on the 7th, I thought it’d be a wonderful time to open up the floor to my fellow authors. Everyone deserves a little time in the spotlight!
So, please join me in welcoming the fabulous Pippa Jay, a stay-at-home mum who writes fantastic sci-fi.
Let’s do this!
Hey beautiful people! The last time I did author interviews (last November), I met so many fabulous authors, many of whom I still creep regularly because they’re awesome.
If you’re interested in signing up to participate this July, you can find the sign-up form here!
Just as before, the interviews are only 5 questions. You have the options to add extras (cover reveals, etc.) to this round, however. It’s gonna be fun! Looking forward to meeting everyone!
Well, November is drawing to a close. I can’t believe December is just a day away — where has the year gone?! I won’t lament it forever, because I’m sure hundreds of other bloggers are saying the same thing. All I can say is: It’s been real, November.
I set out to make the month about appreciating my fellow authors, and I wanted to do that by hosting interviews. I hoped to make my questions a little unique and different, and I was super excited to start my new WordPress off with a bang. When I initially put out my Google form, I thought maybe two people would sign up, and they’d probably be people I knew.
Well, that wasn’t the case. I’ve had so many amazing authors sign up with me, many who have books that I’m beyond interested in. Thank you, everyone. It warmed my heart having all of you here.
But the month isn’t over! One final interview awaits us, and this time New Adult Kelly Cain takes the stage to chat with me a little more about her upcoming release.
Which, I might add, already has a 4-star review on Goodreads, and has a cover reveal coming up SOON. Be prepared, lovelies.
Take it away, Kelly!
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I have several Penner Publishing (@pennerpub) author friends now and I’ve been able to read their novels. All of these books have been amazing, so to pick just one was difficult. I landed on Ditch Flowers by Amanda Linsmeier (@amandalinsmeier) mostly because it’s not a story I personally would ever pick up. I’m more into New Adult or Historical Fiction, and this is Women’s Fiction. It a story about Julia, who has had a rough time conceiving. She and her husband move to his hometown and she begins working at a daycare where she sees a little boy who looks suspiciously like her husband. I loved following her path as she decides what to do. The book is so well written and so interesting that I ended up giving it 5 starts. But again, I don’t think you can go wrong with any of the Penner titles.
Altered
Drawing on the author’s own experience studying law, the novel follows Liv, a young woman in her a first semester of law school. When her fiancé abruptly breaks things off, Liv is heart-broken.
Enter Nicholas, a classmate who is so withdrawn that he is an enigma to everyone around him. Nicholas is unusually young and unusually quiet, and keeps his past a tightly guarded secret.
While Liv is still reeling from her break up, Nicholas begins appearing in her life and coming to her rescue. Intrigued and grateful to this quiet young man, Liv becomes determined to unravel the mystery of who Nicholas is.
Kelly is a new adult and contemporary romance novelist. After many years of being entrenched in business and data analysis, she began writing last year and discovered it to be her passion. She loves reading most genres, but historical fiction and new adult are her favorites. She has two adult daughters and lives in a suburb of Houston, Texas.
Connect with Kelly on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Tumblr!
With November coming to a close, I still have a couple more lovely authors to feature on my blog. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that historical fiction author C.H. Armstrong will be joining me to chat about her upcoming release. Just reading her answers here has made me super interested to devour the book, and I hope you feel the same!
Also, please join me in fangirling over her BEAUTIFUL COVER ART. #obsessed
Please give a warm welcome to C.H. Armstrong!
Only the sage advice that was given to me countless times, all of which I ignored until I finally sat down to write: Just write. Write whatever comes out of your head. Don’t worry about how it sounds or how it reads — that can be fixed in the editing stage. But you have to start somewhere, so just sit down and write whatever your heart leads you to write. Some of it you’ll keep and some if you won’t, but you’ll be surprised what you end up with when you finally step away from the keyboard.
First of all, I won’t lie: I love traditional books. Like a lot of people, I love the feel of them in my hands and the way they smell. BUT, I also love e-books and have transitioned over to doing the majority of my reading on e-books. The reason is because it’s just so easy. I can adjust the font size when I don’t have my glasses on, I can carry with me thousands of titles in under a pound, and I can even read in the dark. And even better than all of that is that when I find a title I want to read, I can have it in my hands in about fifteen seconds. So the answer is that I love both, but these days I’m loving e-books just a bit more.
The Edge of Nowhere is a work of historical fiction inspired by my own family’s experiences during the 1930s Oklahoma Dust Bowl and The Great Depression. My grandmother married a man much older than herself, and then was left a widow at 28 with twelve children (five of whom were her stepchildren). Everybody was poor in those days and times were hard, and she had it harder than most. So the story centers around asking the central question of “what would a woman alone and with no resources do to provide for and protect her children?” Similar to my grandmother, the main character is widowed at 28 with nine children and she makes some (arguably) reprehensible choices in the name of providing for her children. This book is very personal to me because it helped me to understand the things my own grandmother may have endured, and many of the major elements are based upon family anecdotes. The Edge of Nowhere is due out in paperback and e-book formats on January 19th.
Oh gosh, yes! And probably the biggest reason why is because the main character is loosely based upon my own grandmother. She was a strong and assertive woman — aggressive, even, if the situation required it — and she refused to back down from even the worst adversity. In many ways I take pride in the fact that I see a lot of my grandmother in myself. In fact, I’d argue that most of my grandmother’s children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren have inherited this genetic predisposition to refuse to accept defeat and we’re all very proud of it. So yes – like the main character, I’m definitely a strong and independent woman who values family above everything else. Like her, there just isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for my children; and I’ve not encountered a situation yet where I easily accepted defeat.
Oh gosh, everything! Obviously I’m excited because it’s my first release; but, I’m also excited — and a whole lot nervous — to see what my friends and family back in Oklahoma think of it. I’m an Oklahoma native transplanted in Minnesota, but I’m an Okie at heart and consider Oklahoma to be “home.” The book is set in my hometown of El Reno, OK (which is where my family was during the 1930s), and I’m both anxious and excited to get feedback from my hometown and the surrounding communities. I’m headed back there in April, and I sincerely hope they’ll be kind to me. 🙂
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I love this! I get to gush about my favorite author(s)! I have so many but, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that Cathy Lamb is probably my favorite author. She just “gets” people and relationships. I’ve read everything she’s written, and she never fails to make me laugh, then cry, then laugh through ugly tears. She has a true gift. I think my favorite books of hers are Julia’s Chocolates, Such a Pretty Face, and The Last Time I Was Me. See — I tried, but I just couldn’t choose one title!
The year is 1992 and Victoria Hastings Harrison Greene—reviled matriarch of a sprawling family—is dying.
After surviving the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Victoria refuses to leave this earth before revealing the secrets she’s carried for decades.
Once the child of a loving family during peaceful times, a shocking death shattered her life. Victoria came face to face with the harshness of the world. As the warm days of childhood receded to distant memory, Victoria learns to survive.
No matter what it takes.
To keep her family alive in an Oklahoma blighted by dust storms and poverty, Victoria makes choices—harsh ones, desperate ones. Ones that eventually made her into the woman her grandchildren fear and whisper about. Ones that kept them all alive. Hers is a tale of tragedy, love, murder, and above all, the conviction to never stop fighting.
C.H. (Cathie) Armstrong is an Oklahoma native transplanted in Minnesota for the last twenty-three years. A 1992 graduate of the University of Oklahoma, she is a rabid Oklahoma Sooners football fan and can be found most Saturdays from September through December glued to the television or computer watching her alma mater play some good-old fashioned Oklahoma football. Cathie is a prolific reader of most genres and is happiest when curled up between the pages of a great read. The Edge of Nowhere is her first published novel.
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