It’s a Novel Network Out There
By Susan McBeth, founder and CEO, Novel Network™ and Adventures by the Book®. “Books are something social – a writer speaking to a reader – so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.” –...
Tosca Lee – New York Times Bestselling Author
ABOUT: from author's website Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Between, The House of Bathory Duology (The Progeny, Firstborn), Iscariot, The Legend of Sheba, Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of Eve, and the...
Hunting the Devil by Suanne Schafer
ABOUT: When Dr. Jessica Hemings volunteers for a medical mission in Rwanda, she becomes entrapped in the maelstrom of Rwandan politics and the enmity between Hutus and Tutsis. Her Tutsi features plunge her into the Rwandan Genocide. Dr. Cyprien Gatera, Jess's superior...
The True Story Behind “A Girl Like You” by Michelle Cox
“I had a man-stopping body and a personality to go with it!” is what the 81-year old Adeline Schneider told me in an interview, shortly after she had been admitted to the nursing home where I once toiled as a social worker. Even with her many health problems, some of...
Sequel Sisters Book Club Visits With Susan Meissner
Love, love, love connecting our amazing Novel Network authors with their dedicated readers!!!Thank you to bookclub manager Mary K for sharing this beautiful photo from their video chat visit with Susan Meissner, with whom they “really enjoyed their...
Fast Into the Night by Debbie Clarke Moderow
ABOUT: A captivating memoir of one woman’s attempt to finish the Iditarod, led by her team of spunky huskies with whom she shares a fascinating and inextricable bond At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but...
Nicole Meier – Contemporary Women’s Fiction Author
from author's website ABOUT: Nicole Meier is a native Southern Californian who pulled up roots and moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her husband, three children, and one very nosey Aussiedoodle. Her debut novel, THE HOUSE OF BRADBURY, was...
Author Book Review – by Suanne Schafer
Our authors are avid readers, too! Suanne Schafer, whose newest book, HUNTING THE DEVIL, releases on September 15, 2019, regularly posts book reviews on her website. Here's what she had to say about fellow NovelNetwork author Abbi Waxman's THE BOOKISH LIFE OF NINA...
Good Books Good Friends Book Club Visits With Kate Quinn
Speaking of their video chat visit with NovelNetwork bestselling author Kate Quinn, Charlotte, North Carolina based Good Books Good Friends bookclub's manager Tricia shared, “We had a WONDERFUL chat with Kate! It added so much to our discussion of The Alice Network...
Jo Giese – Award-Winning Radio Journalist, Author, Teacher, Community Activist, and Global Traveler
from author's website ABOUT: As a special correspondent Jo Giese was part of the Peabody award-winning team at Marketplace, public radio’s daily business show, and she’s been a contributor to This American Life. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York...
Our Perfect Wild: Ray & Barbara Bane’s Journeys and the Fate of Far North by Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan
ABOUT: Ray and Barbara Bane worked as teachers in Barrow and Wainwright, Alaska, in the early 1960s—but they didn’t simply teach the children of their Iñupiat Eskimo and Koyukon friends and neighbors: they fully embraced their lifestyle. Doing so, they realized how...