An Interview with “Gusto” Dave Jackson!

Please welcome “Gusto” Dave Jackson, author of the upcoming novel TATTOO RAMPAGE (Curiosity Quills Press, September 15, 2013). I met Dave through the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and his blog, Chiseled in Rock. Not your typical author, “Gusto” Dave Jackson started writing in his constant pursuit to become a Renaissance man. Then he fell in love with the art form. Comedy remains as one of his many passions. He writes and performs skits as well as stand-up. Also a songwriter and guitarist, he has composed over 300 musical titles. Tattoo Rampage, Dave’s debut novel, is represented for film by Hotchkiss and

Read more

An Interview with Linda Grimes, Author of QUICK FIX

Please welcome Linda Grimes, author of the new release QUICK FIX (Ciel Halligan Series, #2)(Tor Books, August 2013):   Linda Grimes is the author of In a Fix and Quick Fix, the first two books of Tor’s light urban fantasy series featuring aura adaptor Ciel Halligan. She currently resides in northern Virginia with her husband and a host of imaginary people who fuel her writing. Ciel Halligan, an aura adaptor with a chameleon-like ability to step into the lives of her clients and fix their problems for them—as them—is working a job at the National Zoo with her maybe-sort-of boyfriend,

Read more

An Interview With Laura Drake

Today I’m delighted to welcome Laura Drake, author of the new release HER ROAD HOME (Harlequin Super Romance, August 2013): Laura has always been a storyteller.  She began on her front porch, telling ghost stories to the neighborhood kids.  They ran screaming, but kept coming back for more. If she wasn’t telling a story, she had her nose in one, bumping into students in the halls on her way to classes. Her settings are Western, but Laura grew up in the suburbs outside Detroit.  A tomboy, she’s always loved the outdoors and adventure. In 1980 she and her sister packed

Read more

An Interview with Annamaria Alfieri

Today I’m honored to welcome Annamaria Alfieri, author of BLOOD TANGO (Minotaur Books, June 25, 2013), a fabulous new mystery that I loved and absolutely recommend! Annamaria Alfieri is the author of Blood Tango, which takes place in Buenos Aires in 1945 and imagines the murder of an Evita Perón lookalike.  Kirkus Reviews said of her Invisible Country, “Alfieri has written an anti-war mystery that compares with the notable novels of Charles Todd.” Deadly Pleasures Magazine called her City of Silver one of the best first novels of the year.  The Washington Post said, “As both history and mystery, City

Read more

An Interview with Piper Bayard!

Please welcome Piper Bayard, author of the new release FIRELANDS (Stonehouse Ink, June 2013), a fantastic dystopian thriller: Piper Bayard is a belly dancer from way back and a recovering attorney with a university degree or two. She currently pens post-apocalyptic sci-fi and spy novels with Intelligence Operative Holmes when she isn’t shooting, blogging, dancing, or chauffeuring her children. Piper blogs at Bayard & Holmes. You may contact her at their site, on Twitter at @piperbayard, on Facebook at Piper Bayard, or by email at BH[at]bayardandholmes.com. Sign up at Bayard & Holmes Newsletter to receive infrequent newsletters and notices of book releases. She and Holmes will

Read more

An Interview with Erika Robuck

Please welcome Erika Robuck, author of the newly released CALL ME ZELDA (NAL/Penguin, May 2013), a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Erika Robuck self-published her first novel, RECEIVE ME FALLING. Her novel, HEMINGWAY’S GIRL (NAL/Penguin), was a Target Emerging Author Pick, a Vero Beach Bestseller, and has been sold in two foreign markets to date. Her latest novel, CALL ME ZELDA (NAL/Penguin), was just released, and begins in the years “after the party” for Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Erika writes about and reviews historical fiction at her blog, Muse, and is a contributor to fiction blog, Writer Unboxed. She is also

Read more

An Interview With Amy Sue Nathan!

Please help me welcome AMY SUE NATHAN, whose debut novel THE GLASS WIVES (St. Martin’s Griffin, May 14, 2013) releases tomorrow! AMY SUE NATHAN lives and writes near Chicago where she hosts the popular blog, Women’s Fiction Writers. She has published articles in Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune and New York Times Online among many others.  Amy is the proud mom of a son and a daughter in college, and a willing servant to two rambunctious rescued dogs. Evie and Nicole Glass share a last name. They also shared a husband. When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the lives of Evie and Nicole, and their

Read more

An Interview With Deanna Raybourn

Please welcome New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn, who’s talking with us today about her new release, A SPEAR OF SUMMER GRASS (Harlequin MIRA, April 2013): A sixth-generation native Texan, New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a double major in English and history. Deanna makes her home in Virginia, where she is hard at work on her next novel. Paris, 1923 The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even amongst Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married

Read more

An Interview With Robin Martinez Rice

Help me welcome Robin Martinez Rice, author of the historical novel IMPERFECTA (January, 2013) Robin Martinez Rice was born in Oakland, California many moons ago. She earned a degree in Psychology at Mills College and her Masters of Sciences degree in Counseling/ School Psychology at Cal State Hayward. After many years as an Educational Psychologist and Marriage Family Therapist she retired to follow her dream of writing. Robin has family roots in Northern New Mexico. She has traveled back to the Southwest many times, as the magic of this place invaded her spirit. Her writing ranges from mystical tales to

Read more

An Interview With Beverly Swerling

Please help me welcome Beverly Swerling, author of BRISTOL HOUSE (Viking, April 4, 2013). Born in Boston, I went to school in Kansas City MO (don’t ask).  After college I moved to NYC and took a job as a file clerk in an insurance company so I could support my writing habit.  Eventually I could legitimately call myself a freelance journalist, but it was a good ten years before I managed to write a saleable novel.  In the meantime I got married and not long after moved to England.  Lived there and in France and Spain for nearly a quarter

Read more