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.” –...
Our First Official Zoom Connection is in the Books!
Where there's a will, there's a way! Let's hear it for these brave book club members, willing to learn something new in order to keep their meetings happening! Susan Meissner joined the Bay Park Noon Book Club via Zoom to discuss her latest (excellent) historical...
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
by Rebecca Winn “We are all connected.” A phrase so common, it has become a meaningless spiritual cliche. Or has it? Four months ago we could watch the news unfolding in China with a detachment that distance and depersonalization afforded us. Today, we are sheltering...
Georgie Blalock – A Writer by Two Names
from author's website Georgie Blalock is an amateur historian and movie buff who loves combining her different passions through historical fiction, and a healthy dose of period piece films. When not writing, she can be found prowling the non-fiction history section of...
One Hundred Daffodils: Finding Beauty, Grace, and Meaning When Things Fall Apart by Rebecca Winn
ABOUT: "When women share the truth about life and loss . . . hope is restored" in this enlightening and comforting memoir about purpose, personal growth, and nature's ability to heal (Sarah Ban Breathnach)."There is so much life in the garden. That is why I come. Life...
The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack
ABOUT: TWO LOVERS WHO HAVE TRAVELED ACROSS TIME. A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF MEMORY RESEARCH. A MIRACLE DRUG THAT UNLOCKS AN ANCIENT MYSTERY. Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there’s a secret...
Karen White – New York Times Bestselling Author
from author's website Karen White is the New York Times bestselling author of 27 books, including the Tradd Street series, Dreams of Falling, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, A Long Time Gone, and The Time Between. She is the...
How I Came to Love Virtual Meetings in the Age of Corona by Caroline Leavitt
Getting real in the age of Virtual Meetings In the old, pre-virus days, I used to always dress up to the nines for my author tours and festivals. I’d carefully lay out just the right dress (almost always black), the right earrings (the more flamboyant the better) and...
Richard Farrell – Debut Novelist
from author's website Richard Farrell is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work, including fiction, memoir, essays, interviews and book reviews, has appeared or is forthcoming in The Forge, Potomac...
Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene Zimmerman
ABOUT: Something was wrong with Peter. Eilene Zimmerman noticed that her ex-husband looked thin, seemed distracted, and was frequently absent from activities with their children. She thought he looked sick and needed to see a doctor. Yet in many ways, Peter also...
Lorraine Devon Wilke – Author, Photographer, Singer/Songwriter
Lorraine Devon Wilke is an author, photographer, and singer/songwriter, who brings the sum total of her creative experience to her compelling contemporary fiction. Pulling from every chapter of her eclectic background, she creates characters and plots that are sharply...