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Ep. 195: Amy Tector on the Power of Critique Groups, Crafting Mysteries as a Pantser, and More

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This week, Amy Tector is back on the podcast to discuss Honor the Dead, the third book in her captivating Dominion Archives Mysteries series, which is perfect for Louise Penny fans.

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Honor the Dead is classic Amy Tector—an intriguing mystery peppered with fascinating historical tidbits and infused with a good dose of humor. Her cast of characters never disappoints and everyone is a suspect until the very last page. This book is too fun to put down. Don’t be surprised if you finish it in one sitting. —Kim Hooper, author of People Who Knew Me and No Hiding in Boise

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About the Author:

Amy Tector was born and raised in the rolling hills of Quebec’s Eastern Townships. She has worked in archives for the past twenty years and has found some pretty amazing things, including lost letters, mysterious notes, and even a whale’s ear. Amy spent many years as an expat, living in Brussels and in The Hague, where she worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in Yugoslavia. She lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her daughter, dog, and husband. Learn more: https://www.amytector.com/

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Ep. 194: Henriette Lazaridis on Transporting Readers to Athens in Last Days in Plaka

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I’m thrilled that Henriette Lazaridis is back this week to discuss her new novel, Last Days in Plaka – think The Talented Mr. Ripley by way of Elena Ferrante–it explores the lies at the heart of an old woman’s identity and the desperation of a young woman’s struggle to belong.

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“A stunning novel about an unlikely friendship that had me utterly enthralled. In luminous prose, Last Days in Plaka lays bare the yearnings of a trio of heartbreakingly human characters in modern-day Athens as they navigate a hot, deserted city haunted by memories and their own obscured agendas. A poignant, surprising read that will make you look more closely, and with greater tenderness, at the world around you.” —Katrin Schumann, author of This Terrible Beauty

 

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About the Author:

Henriette Lazaridis is the author of The Clover House (a Boston Globe bestseller), Terra Nova (which the New York Times called “ingenious”), and Last Days in Plaka (publishing April 2024). She earned degrees in English literature from Middlebury College, Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of Pennsylvania. Having taught English at Harvard, she now teaches at GrubStreet in Boston. She was the founding editor of The Drum Literary Magazine and runs the Krouna Writing Workshop in northern Greece. Her essays and articles have been published in Elle, Forge, Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, New England Review, The Millions, and Pangyrus, and earned her a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant. An avid athlete, Henriette trains on the Charles River as a competitive rower, and skis, trail runs, or cycles whenever she can. She writes about athletic and creative challenges at The Entropy Hotel on Substack. Visit her website: www.henriettelazaridis.com.

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Ep. 193: Sheila Sundar Explores Grief, Motherhood, Ambition, and the Meaning of Home in Habitations

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This week my guest  is Sheila Sundar, author of the stunning debut novel Habitations, which follows a young academic who moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green card marriage, single motherhood, and more.

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“Sundar’s debut novel is a wondrous mix of quiet heartache and unexpected hope, making it the best kind of literary fiction.… Sundar’s focus on the evolution of Vega’s inner and outer lives through relationships brings a vitally important lens to the thematic preoccupations of roots, home, migrant identity, and motherhood. The crisp plot and uncluttered writing make Habitations a remarkable first novel.”—Booklist

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About the Author:

Sheila Sundar is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Mississippi. Her writing has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and their three children. Habitations is her debut novel. Learn more: https://www.sheilasundar.com/

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Ep. 192: Parul Kapur Explores the Lives of Female Artists in 1950s Bombay with Inside the Mirror

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This week my guest  is Parul Kapur, author of Inside the Mirror, winner of the AWP prize for the novel and named a most anticipated feminist book of 2024 by Ms. Magazine. The book tells the story of two sisters who aspire to become artists in 1950s Bombay, India.

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“With breathtaking lyricism and scorching insight, Kapur captures women in flux brilliantly. This profound book complicates the impact of colonialism and throbs with life. Inside the Mirror is an extraordinary novel.”

—Jennifer Maritza McCauley, author of When Trying to Return Home

 

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About the Author:

Parul Kapur was born in Assam, India, grew up in the United States, and lives in Atlanta. She is a fiction writer, journalist, and literary critic whose writing has appeared in a number of publications, including Ploughshares, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review. Kapur holds an MFA from Columbia University and has received fellowships from the Hambidge Center and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Learn more: https://www.parulkapur.com/

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Ep. 191: Liza Palmer on Writing The Bear Meets Succession in Family Reservations

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This week my guest is Liza Palmer, author of Family Reservations,  an epic saga about one family’s battle over their culinary legacy  that is sure to have you up late binge reading.

“A beautiful portrait of a fiercely complicated family of women. Oft hilarious, sometimes dysfunctional, and always relatable, this book revels in the messiness of mothers, daughters, and sisters. Reading this exquisite novel made me feel the same way about the Winters that I feel about my own family – which is to say that I loved them and wanted to scream at them in equal measure. I devoured this book. And wish I could devour their recipes!”

—Sarah Watson, creator of The Bold Type

 

Give yourself the gift of a preorder of Family Reservations. You’ll be so excited when it arrives on your doorstep on April 1st!

 

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About the Author:

Two-time Emmy nominated, internationally best-selling tea enthusiast who gets to write for Marvel sometimes, Liza Palmer lives in Los Angeles where 95.3% of people call her Lisa. Learn more: https://lizapalmer.com/

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Ep. 190: Melodie Edwards on Creating a Modern Anne Elliot in Her Swoonworthy Persuasion Retelling

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This week my guest is Melodie Edwards, author of Once Persuaded, Twice Shy, a second chance romance and a modern reimagining of Persuasion.

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“Reading Melodie Edwards is the closest you can come to reading a modern-day Jane Austen. Fans of Austen will find Once Persuaded, Twice Shy a gorgeously romantic homage to one of history’s best second-chance romances and most relatable protagonists. Edwards’ narrative voice is exquisite, her Anne Elliot(t) perfectly rendered, her Wentworth swoonworthy, and her small-town setting (Kellynch Hall exchanged for Kellynch Winery) a place you’ll ache to visit. This gem of a story is the Persuasion update we deserve.”
-Ashley Winstead, author of The Boyfriend Candidate

 

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About the Author:

Melodie Edwards is the author of Jane & Edward. She has a BA from the University of Toronto, a master’s degree from McMaster University and Syracuse University (2023), studied comedy writing at the Second City Training Centre, and works in communications. Learn more: https://melodieedwards.com/

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Ep. 189: Zibby Owens on Disrupting the Publishing Industry in the Fictional World of Blank and Real Life

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This week my guest is bookfluencer extraordinaire, publisher, and author Zibby Owens. She’s here to chat about her delightful new novel Blank, about a wife, mother, and frustrated writer who faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around. This new novel is perfect for fans of Nora Goes Off Script.

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“Leave it to Zibby Owens to write a novel about a lovable woman single-handedly disrupting the publishing industry. Blank explores marriage, parenting, friendship, and the competitive high jinks of the book trade with the perfect amount of wit and light-touch humor. I devoured this book in a single sitting.” -Annabel Monaghan, author of Nora Goes Off Script and Same Time Next Summer

 

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About the Author:

Zibby Owens is the author of Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature and the children’s book Princess Charming and is the editor of two anthologies: Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology and Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology. Creator and host of the award-winning daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, Zibby is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, dubbed “the Zibby-verse” by the Los Angeles Times. It includes publishing house Zibby Books, online magazine Zibby Mag, Zibby’s Book Club, retreats, classes, and events. She also owns Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, California. A regular contributor to Good Morning America and other outlets, she loves recommending books as “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” (Vulture). A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby currently lives in New York (with frequent visits to LA) with her husband, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions, and her four children ages nine to sixteen. Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens and on Substack, where she tells it like it is. Learn more: https://www.zibbyowens.com/

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Ep. 188: Rosey Lee on Creating the Enchanting Gardin Women and an Edin You Won’t Want to Leave

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It is such a treat to have debut author Rosey Lee here this week to discuss one of my favorite recent reads, The Gardins of Edin, a heartwarming Southern story about family and all its many complexities.

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“The surprises and heart in this fast-paced family drama kept me turning pages late into the night.”-KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters

 

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About the Author:

Rosey Lee writes stories about complicated families and complex friendships, but a happy ending is guaranteed. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she enjoys cooking, flower arranging, and occasional bursts of fanatical bargain shopping. She grew up on the Westbank of New Orleans, Louisiana, and carries the area and her loved ones in her heart when she’s away from them. Learn more: https://www.roseyleebooks.com/

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Ep. 187: Maura Cheeks Explores the Passing of a Federal Reparations Law through Fiction

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This week Maura Cheeks is here to discuss her phenomenal debut, Acts of Forgiveness–named a most anticipated book by Elle, Real Simple, and more, the novel imagines the country has just passed the nation’s first reparations bill for Black families.

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“Acts of Forgiveness is the rare novel that lays out a hypothetical public policy and its attendant bureaucracy, weaving a story with an imaginative yet realistic exploration of what reparations might look like—what might be missed and what might be achieved. But above all, it is a story about family, with all the challenge, ambiguity, interconnection, obligation, and love the term carries. . . . A generous, thoughtful, and thought-provoking novel about inheritance in all its forms.”—Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State

 

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About the Author:

Maura Cheeks has published writing in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Tin House, among others. In 2019, she was awarded a masthead reporting residency with The Atlantic where she produced the feature-length article that would later inspire the idea for this book. Acts of Forgiveness is her first novel. Learn more: https://www.mauracheeks.com/

Read Maura’s New York Times article, What if Federal Reparations Weren’t a Fiction?

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Ep. 186: Kathleen M. Willett on the Propulsive New Novel Perfect for Fans of Big Little Lies

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On this week’s episode, Kathleen Willett is here to discuss Anything for a Friend, a propulsive new suspense novel about two college friends who reconnect with dangerous results. This is the perfect next read for fans of Big Little Lies & Little Fires Everywhere.

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“Kathleen Willett has done it again! ANYTHING FOR A FRIEND is chock full of domestic tension, twisty plot turns, and compelling female characters. I couldn’t put this one down! After reading this page-turner, you might think twice about inviting your oldest friends into your home…”

— Katie Sise, nationally bestselling author of WE WERE MOTHERS, OPEN HOUSE, and THE BREAK

 

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About the Author:

Kathleen M. Willett is the author of Mother of All Secrets. An English teacher who grew up in New Jersey and London, Kathleen lives in New York City with her husband, two daughters, and a cat named Mr. Sparkles. For more information, visit www.kathleenmwillett.com.

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