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.” –...
I Never Do This by Anesa Miller
ABOUT: MEET THE UNFORGETTABLE YOUNG WOMAN, LaDene Faye Howell, who finds herself in police custody recounting her story after her paroled cousin Bobbie Frank appears and engages her in a crime spree. LaDene Faye Howell has spent her life in the small town of...
Brian J. Morra – Award-Winning Novelist
Brian J. Morra has spent his career in intelligence and national security beginning with his time as a decorated Air Force Intelligence officer and through his many years as a senior executive in the aerospace and defense industry. Brian was encouraged to write the...
The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson
ABOUT: Inspired by true events, The Wartime Book Club is an unforgettable story of everyday bravery and resistance, full of romance, drama, and camaraderie and a tribute to the joy of reading and the power of books in our darkest hour.The Isle of Jersey was once a...
Lian Dolan – Bestselling Author, Podcaster, and Speaker
from author's website ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lian Dolan is a writer and talker. She’s the author of four best-selling novels, Lost and Found in Paris, The Sweeney Sisters, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife. Her new novel, The Marriage Sabbatical, published...
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg – Award-Winning Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her novel The Nine (SWP 2019) was honored with the 2019 Foreword Indies Gold Award in Thriller & Suspense and the Gold Medal and Juror’s Choice in the 2019...
1666 by Laura Chilton
ABOUT: A Fictional Recounting of the Survival Story of Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia The story has been remembered within the Patawomeck tribe for generations, but is largely unknown outside of the tribe until now. Author Lora Chilton, a tribal member through the...
Friends in Napa by Sheila Yasmin Marikar
ABOUT: Six old friends descend on Napa Valley for a luxurious weekend of fine wine and good times…until old tensions simmer to the surface. So much can go wrong in this dark comedy by the author of The Goddess Effect. Just get yourselves here, everything else is...
Piper Huguley – Author of Historical Fiction featuring African American Characters
from author's website ABOUT PIPER: Piper G. Huguley’s biographical historical fiction, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie...
Don’t Let Rejection Define You or Determine Your Future!
by Zoro the Drummer Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ~ Marilyn vos Savant Hello Friends, I want to encourage you with some lesser-known truths about some of the most successful people of all time. ELVIS PRESLEY...
Angeline by Anna Quinn
ABOUT: A moving, lyrical, melancholy, and spiritual novel by the acclaimed author of The Night Child, in which Sister Angeline, unwillingly sent to a radical convent and confronting her tragic past, asks the deep question, follow your heart or follow the rules?...