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Author Interview: Leigh Bale (part four) Plans for the Future

Thank you for joining us for our fourth installment of our interview with award-winning inspirational novelist, Leigh Bale. If you missed parts one, two or three, click here to see what we’ve been talking about. Leigh, I was hunting around on your website and found a reference to your very first book, which you describe as being pretty bad. Do you have any plans to polish it up and submit it? Absolutely not! (I’m chuckling here.) That book is so horrible, and would need such massive work, that I might just as well start over completely. But writing that book … 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 — Phyllis A. Whitney

While gathering information online about the novel “Spindrift,” which I reviewed a short time ago, I happened upon a fact that nearly made me drop my teeth. The author of that novel, Phyllis A. Whitney, is 103 years old and currently hard at work on her biography. It’s a rare treat to find someone who had reached that advanced age, and even more delightful to discover that they are still able to do the things they have loved doing throughout their lives. I decided then and there to do an author review on this remarkable woman. As I read, I … Continue reading →

Nine Coaches Waiting – Mary Stewart

We first discussed the genre known as Gothic when I reviewed “Spindrift” by Phyllis A. Whitney. Another author to write, and excel, in the Gothic genre is Mary Stewart, whose runaway hit “Nine Coaches Waiting” was hailed by critics of her time as one of the best novels to hit the shelves. Linda Martin is half-French, half-English. During the latter part of World War II, it became necessary for her and her mother to leave France, so she left behind the only home she had ever known and came to London. Both her parents passed away and she was raised … Continue reading →