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Author Interview—Jean Hackensmith on Virtual Book Tours

I recently blogged about virtual book tours, the new way of book promotion through the Internet. As a follow-up to that blog, I had the opportunity to speak with author Jean Hackensmith about her experiences with virtual touring and her writing life. Jean, you’re currently on a virtual book tour to promote your new book, “Checkmate.” Is this your first tour? No. I also did a Virtual Book Tour last December for the final installment in The “Passage” Saga, titled “The Ultimate Passage.” The tour was a huge success and, I’m happy to say, has generated many new sales, not … Continue reading →

Media Week in Review – March 24th – 29th

Were you a wee bit busy this week? No time to relax and join us here in Media Reviews? We missed you, but you don’t have to miss out on all the fun we had. Here’s a recap. We started the week with a look at one of Lauri’s favorite TV shows, “Monk.” Tony Shalhoub stars as the quirky detective, who is dealing with grief over the death of his wife. He also has an obsessive compulsive disorder for cleanliness which adds a touch of humor to the show. Lauri warns that it’s not a show for young children, but … Continue reading →

Author Interview: G.G. Vandagriff

We are joined today by LDS author G.G. Vandagriff. G.G., thank you for granting me this interview. It’s a pleasure to have this opportunity. I’ve reviewed your first two novels, “Cankered Roots” and “Of Deadly Descent” here on Families.com, and will be reviewing your latest release, “Tangled Roots,” this next week. Each of these books feature a genealogist as the main character, and you’re obviously a genealogist yourself. How long have you been interested in genealogy? I got interested in genealogy in the late eighties after a strong impression that I should do so. It was so fun, it was … Continue reading →

The Second Time Around – Mary Higgins Clark

In “The Second Time Around,” we meet Carley DeCarlo, a journalist who writes financial advice columns. Her baby died ten years ago from a heart defect, and her husband couldn’t take the stress and left. Now alone and supporting herself, Carley feels like she’s put her life back together, but she hesitates to trust again. Her mother has remarried, and her step-father’s daughter, Lynn, is cool and distant. Lynn’s husband, Nicholas Spencer, is everything Lynn is not. He’s charming, warm, and personable. He owns a company called Gen-stone which is devoted to seeking out a cure for cancer. He believes … Continue reading →

I Heard That Song Before – Mary Higgins Clark

Fans of Mary Higgins Clark rejoiced to hear that she released a new novel earlier this year. There’s almost nothing we like better than a new Mary Higgins Clark. Kay Lansing is the daughter of a landscaper, the employee of a rich family by the name of Carrington. One afternoon, six-year-old Kay went to work with her father and wandered into a forbidden part of the house to hear a woman and a man arguing. She doesn’t tell anyone about it because she doesn’t want to get in trouble for wandering off, but later, a woman who had been at … Continue reading →

Author Interview – Carole Thayne: Her Books

Carol Thayne is a popular LDS suspense author with two published novels. She has agreed to grant us an exclusive interview today. Carole, can you tell us the names of your books and what they are about? My novels are “A Question of Trust” and “False Pretenses.” “A Question of Trust” is about twenty-five year old Stacey Willis from Salt Lake City. She works for a local magazine as a photo-journalist and heads out to the remote town of Grouse Creek to do a story of the vanishing Wild West, and also to get away from her boyfriend Dave so … Continue reading →

Author Interview – Linda Paulson Adams: The Driving Force

Thank you for joining us for our fifth and final installment of our interview with author Linda Paulson Adams. If you missed parts one, two, three, or four, click on these links. Linda, is there a message or a driving force behind your work, or any common themes that run throughout? Hmm. I’ve always had an innate need to write. Where it comes from or why I have it, I can’t say exactly, but it seems to be an integrated part of my soul. I could have recurring themes, I imagine, but that’s more for the literary critics to deconstruct … Continue reading →

Author Review — Maya Angelou

Called “America’s Poet Laureate,” Maya Angelou has done more to forward African American literature than quite possibly any author we’ve had to date. Her words are powerful, earthy, moving and inspirational, but there was a time when she didn’t feel that way. She was abused by her mother’s boyfriend as a child, and when she told what had happened, her uncle beat the abuser to death. Maya became convinced that her words had killed a man, and from the age of eight, when the incident happened, until she was thirteen, she would not speak. Sent to live with her grandmother … Continue reading →

Author Review – Susan Vreeland

Last summer, I reviewed Susan Vreeland’s novel “Girl in Hyacinth Blue,” and found it fascinating. Wanting to know more about the woman behind the book, I decided to focus this author review on her. Susan taught high school English for thirty years and in fact, wrote a handbook for students called “What Engish Teachers Want.” She began her writing career with magazine articles and newspaper stories in 1980, working her way into novels from there with her first fiction piece, “What Love Sees,” published in 1988 and later made into a television movie. Frequently mistaken to be the author of … Continue reading →

Author Review – Mary Higgins Clark

New York Times Best-Selling author Mary Higgins Clark is a master at the art of the psychological thriller. From the moment she penned her first suspense, “Where are the Children?,” her name has been synonymous with thrills, chills, and reading with one hand on a large iron skillet, just in case someone were to break in. Mary is a born and bred New Yorker, but was not destined to stay there. Determined to see something of the world, she became a stewardess and by chance was on the last flight going in to Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain went down. … Continue reading →