Hi, there! I’m SamiJo McQuiston, author of Abney Kelly & the Yuletide Shenanigans. My inspiration came from two places. First, I wanted to write a main character for girls who were imperfect...
You’d think that, by the time you get to writing the third book in a historical fiction series, where many of the characters exist and you’ve thoroughly researched the time and place,...
My daughter is ten years old. She’s the same age as the young girl named Tovah in the book. Even writing this now, knowing what I’m about to say, my throat is...
Today on Novels Alive, please join us in welcoming thriller and romance author D.M. Barr.Â
What drives your story forward in your books the most, the characters or the plot, or do you feel...
Please join me in welcoming Award-winning author Richard Buxton today, and thanks so much for joining us!Â
In your book, The Copper Road—Beyond the Promise, the second book in your Shire’s Union series,...
The very night before London for the continent, a married lady of fashion, young, handsome, rich and nobly connected, called upon him, and avowed that was her ideal of everything...
Do you have any tattoos? Where? When did you get it/them? Where are they on your body?
I do have tattoos on my feet. Unfortunately they are radiation alignment tattoos. I got the...
Welcome to Novels Alive! We’re happy to have award-winning author Lona Manning.
Thank you for having me!
Your novella, Shelley and the Unknown Lady: A novella excerpted from The Mansfield Trilogy is based...
When writing a book, we fiction authors try our best to weave in as many facts as possible to make our story more believable for our readers. We spend a lot of...
One of my great pleasures as a professor of American literature was to conduct field research. You might know it better as sightseeing. In preparation for classes, I would visit the locales...
We're pleased as punch to have sci-fi author P.D. Alleva with us today.
Any weird things you do when you’re alone?
Sing really loud and really bad. I love to sing, unfortunately, there hasn’t...
I’m envious of those individuals who discovered a passion for writing when they were young. My muse didn’t come a knockin’ until the last quarter of my life. That’s not completely true....