Day Drinking With Authors

If you haven't listened to Amy Clark's Book Gang Podcast interviews - you are missing out! Here - let me help you out. Go listen. She does impeccable research and asks brilliant questions and she really and truly only recommends books she loves. Amy has great taste and she's never recommended a book to me that I didn't love. (see recently - Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.) So, she's great. And! She does this Summer Reading Guide every year - it's recent releases, debuts, ...

Like millions of you I read The Change a few years ago and it blew my little mind. Magic, menopause, female rage - it's a perfect witches brew for a fantastic book. Enter - The Women of Wild Hill. More witches than menopause, still lots of female rage and a dark destiny that ripples through a family. Kristen writes my kind of book - sharp but soft on the inside, full of women trying really hard and sometimes getting it wrong. A couple of murders and lots and lots of rage. A witty, spec...

Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare are dear friends and amazing authors so for the last interview before summer - you get a real doozie. We talk for OVER AN HOUR - so plug in those air pods and take us for a walk and then fill up your summer TBR with all of the amazing books they have out now. In this interview we talk about the following books: If I Told You I'd Have to Kiss You Cosmic Love at The Multiverse Hair Salon Homemaker Trust me when I say you're going to want to read all ...

The Phoenix Pencil Company is a Reese's Bookclub Pick!!! When Allison and I chatted this had not been announced so I didn't get to ask her about that experience. :( But we had a fantastic conversation about the idea behind his fascinating book and it's magical premise. She talks about "hand wave" magic and the very real research she did on the historical timeline of this book - the years in Shanghai between the Civil War and World War II. This book has so much to say about p...

Sake!? Mary Alice's secrets come out early in this interview! And what an amazing interview with one of my all-time favorite authors about a book that feels very much in the Mary Alice Monroe wheelhouse but is SO different. It's historical, it's in first person and it's a CLIFFHANGER! We talk about the challenges and joys of taking on all those variations in her process. The historical ramifications and stretching a story across a hundred years. It's impossible to tal...