Win a book gift pack! From the publisher: Hilary Liftin is the ghostwriter and co-writer behind numerous celebrity memoirs, ten of which have been New York Times bestsellers. In this, her debut novel, Liftin turns her ghostwriting talent into fictional brilliance with a celebrity “memoir” that is making a splash as the beach-read novel of the year.…
ARMCHAIR BEA 11: Author Interviews & Favorite Blogs
I was a bit late to the Armchair BEA train, so I was not assigned an interview to do. I can, however, direct you to two interviews I have done in the not-so-distant past. My interview with Sarah Rose, author of For All the Tea in China. It’s an amazing book on a long-lost history…
INTERVIEW: With Ben Greenman
About “Celebrity Chekhov” As published in Connect Savannah, November 3, 2010. Ben Greenman has decided it’s time for us to talk back to literary characters. His recent projects What He’s Poised To Do and Letters with Character both rely upon reader engagement not only to succeed, but to exist. His latest book, Celebrity Chekhov, inserts…
A Russian Pas De Deux: TWO REVIEWS
Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay This historical fiction is the debut novel by an award-winning short story writer. Her true strength lies in creating vignettes; small snowglobe-like places that her characters inhabit. The tale switches between present day and 1950s Soviet Russia, following the memories of a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi. Daphne Kalotay…