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Guest Review: Where Ivy Dares to Grow by Marielle Thompson
Guest reviewer Sophia Rose of WHERE IVY DARES TO GROW by Marielle Thompson.

Christina Boyd
Apr 23, 20244 min read


INTERVIEW: Tracie Banister has Always Loved Male/Female Detective Duos
Christina Boyd interviews author Tracie Banister. An avid reader and writer, Tracie Banister has been scribbling stories since she childhood

Christina Boyd
Apr 22, 20244 min read


Why We Read (Or Write About) Jane Austen by Joana Starnes
Joana Starnes: I think I was about twelve when I began to read Jane Austen. I started with Pride and Prejudice. It was love at first sight.

Christina Boyd
Apr 15, 20245 min read


Guest Review: The Good, The Bad, and the Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto
Guest reviewer Sophia Rose recommends The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto

Christina Boyd
Apr 10, 20244 min read


INTERVIEW: Alyson Noël Still Can't Believe She Creates Stories for a Living
Christina Boyd interviews NYT bestselling author Alyson Noel, best known for THE IMMORTALS series, THE RILEY BLOOM series, STEALING INFINITY

Christina Boyd
Apr 8, 20244 min read


INTERVIEW: Kelly Miller Draws On Past Experiences in Her Writing
Christina Boyd interviews award-winning author Kelly Miller, a native Californian and Anglophile, who made her first visit England in 2019.

Christina Boyd
Apr 1, 20243 min read


Guest Review: Pride and Preston Lin by Christina Hwang Dudley
Sophia Rose reviews Christina Hwang Dudley’s Pride and Preston Lin, a modern riff on Pride and Prejudice.

Christina Boyd
Mar 19, 20244 min read


INTERVIEW: Kelli Estes Says Write the Story That Needs to be Written
Christina Boyd interviews USA Today bestselling author Kelli Estes of THE GIRL WHO WROTE IN SILK, translated into 11 languages and ...

Christina Boyd
Mar 11, 20246 min read


Guest review: THE UNQUIET BONES by Loreth Ann White
ABOUT THE BOOK A shocking discovery of human bones reopens an almost fifty-year-old cold case—and rips apart the lives of a group of...

Christina Boyd
Mar 7, 20243 min read


INTERVIEW: Hilary Grossman Always Wanted to be an Author
Christina Boyd interviews author Hilary Grossman, a recovering corporate executive who spends her weekends hanging out with her characters.

Christina Boyd
Mar 5, 20244 min read


Guest Review: The Book of Ile Rien by Martha Wells
Guest review by Sophia Rose of Martha Wells' THE BOOK OF ILE-RIEN. Collecting Martha Wells's Element of Fire and Death of the Necromancer...

Christina Boyd
Feb 28, 20244 min read


INTERVIEW: Laurie Viera Rigler Says Character Rules Throughout Writing Process
Christina Boyd interviews Laurie Viera Rigler. Rigler’s best-selling Jane Austen Addict novels have been published in North America, the UK,

Christina Boyd
Feb 27, 20249 min read


Guest Review: THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT by Simone St. James
Sophia Rose reviews THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT by Simone St. James. Award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare and Silence for the

Christina Boyd
Feb 21, 20243 min read


INTERVIEW: Gwynne Jackson Says Women Do Not Become Disposable as We Age
Christina Boyd interviews Gwynne Jackson (also writing as Ophelia Leigh) who writes across multiple genres, with a focus on romance and…

Christina Boyd
Feb 20, 20244 min read


Review: SEX, LIES AND SENSIBILITY by Nikki Payne
Review by Christina Boyd of Nikki Payne's SEX, LIES AND SENSIBILITIES. Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated inn but must..

Christina Boyd
Feb 14, 20243 min read


INTERVIEW: Sophia Karlson Admits Writing Love Scenes Isn't Easy
Christina Boyd interviews Sophia Karlson who writes sensual, emotional, and evocative contemporary romance. Some snark might sneak in.

Christina Boyd
Feb 13, 20244 min read


INTERVIEW: Devoney Looser is Wild for Austen
Christina Boyd interviews Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of eleven books

Christina Boyd
Feb 6, 20246 min read


INTERVIEW: Bianca Marais Prefers Her Characters to Lead the Way
INTERVIEW by Christina Boyd: Bianca Marais is the cohost of popular podcast The Shit No One Tells You About Writing and bestselling author

Christina Boyd
Jan 30, 20245 min read


Favorite Austen Scene by Guest Writer, Elaine Jeremiah
Which is your favorite scene in any of Jane Austen’s novels, the one you find the most memorable, and why? I have more than one.

Elaine Jeremiah
Jan 25, 20243 min read


Review: THE LILY OF LUDGATE HILL by Mimi Matthews
Review by Christina Boyd: Mimi Matthews’s new release, The Lily of Ludgate Hill, is the third book in the “Belles of London” series about...

Christina Boyd
Jan 17, 20243 min read
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