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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 →

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 →