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GUEST BLOG: Researching Ideas by AnneMarie Brear

Historical Romance Dayna Linton - 17 November 2020

Primary sources, I feel, are a writer's best friend, especially for a historical writer as I am. When researching it is not always possible to visit your chosen setting, but if you can...

GUEST BLOG: Are Dark Buried Secrets Ever Truly Buried? by Tina deBellegarde

Thriller/Suspense Dayna Linton - 13 November 2020

All stories are driven by a secret. A personal one, a criminal one, a salacious one, it doesn’t matter. Because our lives are full of secrets. Some are innocuous, but some are...

GUEST POST: The Anti-Hollywood Movie Version of THE VENTURI EFFECT by Sage Webb

Thriller/Suspense Dayna Linton - 12 November 2020

Books and movies often go hand in hand, right? Bestsellers may turn into blockbuster movies: The Great Gatsby, The Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park. . . . But I thought for...

GUEST BLOG: Unlikely, Unexpected Partners: Writing Corey and Abe In INSIDE PASSAGE by Burt Weissbourd

Thriller/Suspense Dayna Linton - 10 November 2020

After serving 22 months for drug smuggling, a crime she didn’t commit, Corey Logan is finally released from a Federal Correctional Institution. All she wants now is to get her teenaged son...

INTERVIEW: Victoria Sportelli On Her Book LADY MARGARET’S ESCAPE

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 9 November 2020

Today at Novels Alive, we welcome live-long Anglophile and author of Lady Margaret’s Escape, Victoria Sportelli, to our site. On your biography on your website, you mention that you “fell in love with...

INTERVIEW: Carolyn Arnold on WHAT WE BURY

Thriller/Suspense Dayna Linton - 4 November 2020

We are so excited to welcome international bestselling author Carolyn Arnold to Novels Alive today! What inspired you to write What We Bury? Detective Madison Knight came to me years ago and demanded that...

GUEST BLOG: Brooklyn James on JUST SHELBY

Young Adult/Teen Dayna Linton - 2 November 2020

As an author/singer-songwriter who draws as much inspiration from songs in book writing as I do from books in songwriting, I think book playlists are the greatest thing since self-publishing. Ten years ago...

GUEST BLOG: FALLING TEMPERATURES BRING FALLING PRICES ON MY BOOKS! by Rita Herron

Thriller/Suspense Dayna Linton - 1 November 2020

Fall always brings the beautiful colorful changes of the leaves, cooler weather, cozy warm fireplaces, and the excitement of the holidays! Although the pandemic has created social distancing and kept us at...

INTERVIEW: Debra Doxer on WHERE BUTTERFLIES GO

Historical Dayna Linton - 30 October 2020

I am so humbled and pleased to have author Debra Doxer with us today on Novels Alive. I’m so happy to be here! Where Butterflies Go is based on your great-aunt’s life, were you...

GUEST BLOG: William A. Glass on AS GOOD AS CAN BE

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 30 October 2020

Readers of my novel, As Good As Can Be, usually conclude that it’s autobiographical. Some have asked me why I didn’t write a memoir. The answer is that I tried writing one,...

INTERVIEW: Carrie Hayes on Women’s Equality and NAKED TRUTH

Social Issues Dayna Linton - 28 October 2020

Today on Novels Alive, we are really pumped to have Carrie Hayes, author of the much-acclaimed, Naked Truth: Or Equality, The Forbidden Fruit, on our site to answer questions about feminism, the...

GUEST BLOG: Doing Her Duty – The Travails of a Medieval Queen by Anna Belfrage

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 28 October 2020

In 1254, the fifteen-year-old Prince Edward married the not yet thirteen-year-old Doña Leonor (Eleanor) of Castile. The little bride came with a good pedigree. Not only did she have Fernando III of...