The writing duo of Jaima Fixsen and Regina Sirois, who write under the pen name Audrey Blake, joins Writer’s Voices to discuss their latest historical novel, The Woman With No Name. Set in England in the 1940’s and based on a true story, the novel is about Yvonne Rudellat, a French woman in her mid-40’s Read More

In Once We Were Home, award-winning author, Jennifer Rosner, writes a compelling novel following four children who were displaced and sent into hiding during WWII, how their lives changed in the aftermath of war, and their emotional journey back to their roots. While the characters are fictionalized, their experiences were true of many Jewish children Read More

National bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Reay, joins us to talk about her 11th published book and newest historical novel, The Berlin Letters: A Cold War Novel. The story centers around Luisa Voekler, a CIA code breaker, who was separated from her father as a young child after the rise of the Berlin Wall, but Read More

USA Today bestselling author, Heather Webb, sits down with us to discuss her latest historical fiction and 9th published novel, Queens of London: A Novel. Set in London in 1925, Queens of London tells the story of Alice Diamond, aka “Diamond Annie,” the leader of the notorious Forty Elephants gang, the first all-female crime syndicate Read More

Medical doctor and assistant professor of pediatrics at The George Washington University, Mojgan Ghazirad, sits down with us to talk about her autobiographical, historical fiction novel, The House on Sun Street. Set in Iran, The House on Sun Street tells the story of a young girl named Moji and the hardships her and her family Read More

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian, Katherine Howe, chats with us to discuss her latest pirate adventure tale, A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself. A True Account is a dual narrative, historical fiction that begins in 1726 in Boston, Massachusetts. Hannah Masury, a young woman in her Read More

Lawyer and university administrator at Troy University, Allen Mendenhall, visits Writer’s Voices to discuss his debut novel, A Glooming Peace This Morning. Categorized as Southern Gothic, the story is set in the 1970’s in the fictional town of Andalusia in fictious Magnolia County. Mendenhall explains, “It’s really a retelling of Greek tragedy and more specifically, Read More

In Down the Steep, Chicago author, A.D. Nauman, takes us into 1960’s Virginia during the Jim Crowe era and tells the story of young Willa McCoy, a 13-year old girl who deeply admires her father, a member of the Klan, but comes to learn the reality of what he actually stands for. Nauman elaborates, “So Read More

In The Human Trial, award-winning novelist, Audrey Gale, tells the remarkable story of Randall Archer, an underprivileged adolescent-turned-Harvard student with great ambitions of becoming a pathologist. Set in the 1930’s Depression era, “The story is about a young man from a violently abusive home who happens to be absolutely brilliant… he’s finished high school by Read More

In Brother Maria, poet and playwright who writes under the pseudonym of Brother Ludovico, tells a story set in 14th century Italy during the time of the largest and most fatal pandemic in recorded human history, the Black Death. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by publisher Rodney Charles, the tome is a medieval historical fiction Read More

Multi-award winning novelist, Hannah Lynn, visits us to discuss her first historical fiction novel, Athena’s Child. Her story, which is a retelling of the myth of Medusa, was the 2020 Gold Medalist at the Independent Publisher’s Award. As for what drew her to write this version of the ancient tale, Lynn said, “…I was drawn Read More

Writer, speaker, educator and amateur baker, Aimie Runyan, chats with us to discuss her seventh published novel, A Bakery in Paris. Set in dual timelines, Runyan’s story follows Lisette Vigneau, a baker in 1870’s Paris, and Micheline Chartier, a student enrolled in a famous baking academy post World War II. ” Runyan explains, “A Bakery Read More

Romance and women’s fiction author, Donna Hill, chats with us to discuss her newest novel, a historical fiction, titled I Am Ayah: The Way Home. The story begins in Manhattan where we meet aspiring photographer, Alessandra Fleming, who receives an unexpected phone call one day that her estranged father is in the hospital. Alessandra decides Read More

Internationally bestselling author, Bryn Turbull, visits Writer’s Voices to share her latest historical fiction, The Paris Deception. Set in Nazi-occupied Paris, her novel follows two women, Sophie, an art conservator, and her estranged sister-in-law, Fabienne, a bohemian artist, as they work together to replace stolen “Degenerate” art, a collection of modern art specifically hated by Read More

Litigator and author, Logan Steiner, joins us to share her fascinating debut novel, After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life. Her story is a fictionalized account of the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the famed Canadian author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series, and tells of Maud’s marriage to a Presbyterian Read More