Claire Hamner Matturro interviews Joseph Eldredge, author of “An Antebellum Oz”

Claire Hamner Matturro: Congratulations, Joseph Eldredge, and thank you for taking the time to chat with me a bit over your new release, An Antebellum Oz, a creative, hard-hitting retelling of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The story is set in April of 1861, which our readers will recognize as the beginning […]

Dawn Major interviews Daniel Wallace, author of “Beneath The Moon And Long Dead Stars” 

Daniel Wallace probably doesn’t need an introduction; his novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions is widely known and celebrated and it was adapted to film and later to a Broadway musical. In addition to his six novels, he’s written a memoir This Isn’t Going to End Well and a children’s book, The Cat’s […]

Mary Ellen Thompson interviews Mary Alice Monroe, author of “Where the Rivers Merge”

INTRODUCTION: Mary Alice Monroe’s first historical novel, Where the Rivers Merge, is quite different from the other twenty-nine books she has written. She still focuses on endangered species, but this time her greater focus is on awareness for conservation and protection of our natural resources. Because Mary Alice also likes to educate us while we […]

Mary Ellen Thompson interviews Nancy Thode, author of  “Ahead of Her Time, The Trailblazing Life and Legacy of Ann Head”

Ahead of Her Time, The Trailblazing Life and Legacy of Ann Head chronicles the life of Nancy Thode’s mother who was a famous Beaufort, SC, author in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s. The book also contains several of Ann’s writings as well as correspondence between her and another famous author, Pat Conroy. I met Nancy […]

Donna Meredith interviews Brooks Eason, author of “I Remember Everything”

Summary: Sam and Jeff Freeman become best friends on the day they meet in 1968, the year they turn eight. I Remember Everything traces their lives for more than five decades, from growing up to growing old, and follows them on grand adventures, including two magnificent road trips, the first to New England the year they […]

Authors Nell Joslin and Elaine Neil Orr: A Conversation

Description of Measure of Devotion by Nell Joslin: Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the American Civil War, this novel delves into the life of Susannah Shelburne, a thirty-six-year-old woman residing in South Carolina with her older husband, Jacob. Their son, Francis, defies his parents’ wishes by enlisting in the Confederate army, sparking bitter familial […]