Novelist Kirsten Weiss chats with me today about her new metaphysical mystery, Legacy of the Witch. During her virtual book tour, Kirsten will be giving away a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble (winner’s choice) gift card to a lucky randomly drawn winner. To be entered for a chance to win, use the form below. To increase your chances of winning, feel free to visit her other tour stops and enter there, too! Welcome, Kirsten. Please tell us a little bit about yourself.I believe in free will, and that we all can make a difference. I believe that beauty blossoms in the conscious life, particularly w ..read more

Short story writer Bill Hemmig joins me today to chat about his new literary collection, Americana: Stories. Bio: Bill Hemmig is the author of Americana: Stories and Brethren Hollow, both published by Read Furiously. His short stories appear in Read Furiously’s Life in the Garden State anthologies, The World Takes and Stay Salty. He has had stories published in the journals The Madison Review, Philadelphia Stories, Pink Disco, BarBar, and Children, Churches and Daddies (cc&d), and he is a three-time finalist in the New Millennium Writing Awards. He is a native of Reading, PA and now lives ..read more

Poet Mary Lou Buschi is chatting with me about her new collection, Blue Physics. Bio: Mary Lou Buschi (She/Her) is the author of 3 chapbooks and 3 full length poetry collections. Her 3rd book, BLUE PHYSICS was just published in February 2024 (Lily Poetry Review books). Her poems have appeared in literary journals such as Ploughshares, Glacier, Willow Springs, On the Seawall, among many others. Mary Lou is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and holds an MS in Urban Education from Mercy University. Currently, she is a special education teacher working with students on the s ..read more

Writer Betsy Gall joins me today to chat about her memoir, The Illusion of the Perfect Profession. Bio: Betsy Gall and her three children, Grady, Gavin, Sophie, and their dog Liberty, split their time between Charlotte, North Carolina and Minneapolis, Minnesota where she focuses on faith, family and friends. Betsy is an active real estate agent, investor, landlord and habitual remodeler. Betsy is speaking all over the country about physician suicide after her oncologist husband, Dr. Matthew Gall, tragically and unexpectedly took his own life on Thanksgiving Day in 2019. Betsy recently wrote a ..read more

Today’s special guest is romance author Bethany Rosa. We’re chatting about her new novel, Pursuit of Innocence. During her virtual book tour, Bethany will be giving away a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble (winner’s choice) gift card to a lucky randomly drawn winner. To be entered for a chance to win, use the form below. To increase your chances of winning, feel free to visit her other tour stops and enter there, too! Bio: Bethany Rosa raised four amazing daughters before fulfilling her dream to become a writer. Her goal is to ignite passion in readers through her erotically charged stories. Whe ..read more

Short story author Nancy Burke is chatting with me today about her new collection, Death Cleaning and Other Units of Measure. Bio: After reading Hilma Wolitzer’s collection, Today a Woman Went Mad at the Supermarket, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) Nancy was inspired to gather heraccumulated stories and submit them for publication. Death Cleaning and Other Units of Measure offers us stories written over a period of nearly 30 years, startingin 1995 when Burke signed up for her first short fiction workshop at The NewSchool in NYC with Katherine Texier. Add to that a series of mentor/teachers atva ..read more

Writer Keith Anthony Baird chats with me about his dystopian/cyberpunk novella, SIN:THETICA. Bio:Keith Anthony Baird began writing dark fiction in 2016 as a self-published author. After five years of releasing titles via Amazon and Audible he switched his focus to the traditional publishing route. His dark fantasy novella In the Grimdark Strands of the Spinneret was published via Brigids Gate Press (BGP) in 2022. Two further novellas are to be published in 2024 via BGP – SIN:THETICA and a vampire saga in collaboration with fellow Brit author Beverley Lee – A Light of Little Radiance (November ..read more

Poet Amanda Shaw chats with me today about her new collection, It Will Have Been So Beautiful. Bio: Amanda Shaw is a poet, editor, and teacher who currently serves as book review editor at Lily Poetry Review. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, she has taught language and literature at all levels for over 25 years. Although she’s lived in many different cities, states, and countries, she currently divides her time between New England and Washington, DC. Shaw’s poems probe language’s capacities in the hope that art might move us to a deeper commitment to life in all its forms ..read more

Today’s special guest is mystery author Thomas White and we’re chatting about his new time travel romance, The Edison Enigma. Bio:Tom began his career as an actor. Several years later he found himself as the Artistic Director for a theatre in Los Angeles and the winner of several Drama-Logue and Critics awards for directing. He directed and co-produced the world tour of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out Of Their Shells”. The show toured for over two years, was translated into seven different languages and seen by close to a million children. Tom served as President and Creative Dir ..read more

Author Jean Burgess is chatting with me today about her new women’s fiction, That Summer She Found Her Voice: A Retro Novel. Bio: Jean Burgess, Ph.D. is a writer, playwright, editor, and former theatre educator. Her nonfiction, Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment, was published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis in 2019. Her debut fiction, That Summer She Found Her Voice: A Retro Novel, is scheduled for released April 2024 by Apprentice House Press. Jean is a member of The Authors’ Guild, Eastern Shore Writers’ Association, and Marylan ..read more