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

In The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly, Katherine A. Sherbrooke tells the alluring tale of Aster Kelly, a runway model, who heads to Los Angeles with aspirational dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Inspired by her own mother, the story is told in dual timelines, beginning in the late 1940’s to the mid 1970’s, and Read More

Award-winning author, Elizabeth Shick, stops by to discuss her debut novel and winner of the 2021 AWP Prize for the Novel, The Golden Land. A historical fiction set in dual timelines, “The story is about…Etta, she’s the narrator. It’s first person and she’s grieving the death of her grandmother, her Burmese grandmother, who she had Read More

Author of Boston Globe’s best-selling novel, Clover House, Henriette Lazaridis, shares with us her newest book, Terra Nova. Set in 1910, Terra Nova is a historical fiction that chronicles the incredible tale of Edward Heywoud and James Watts, two Antarctic explorers who are racing to the South Pole, and Edward’s wife, Viola, the woman who Read More

Author of book reviews, essays, and short fiction, Martha Anne Toll, visits us to talk about her debut novel, Three Muses. Three Muses is the esteemed winner of the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction and tells the story of John, a Holocaust survivor, and Katya, a prima ballerina, and the fateful events that led Read More

In the Bohemians, Jasmin Darznik writes about Dorathea Lange, the great American documentary photographer known for her Depression-era work and her iconic photograph, Migrant Mother. Her story begins with the arrival of Lange in San Francisco in 1918, where her passion for photography was just growing. “She came to San Francisco as a young woman Read More

Galia Gichon joins Writers Voices for a lively discussion of her novel – The Accidental Suffragist “What has come up in so many of these conversations, like I did a podcast in Georgia, I did a podcast in Texas just really around the book … and they say “How’s this book relevant today?” – because Read More

Historical novelist Liza Nash Taylor talks about her latest work – All in Good Faith – and how she manages writing from two perspectives. ” It’s funny for me My writing process is – I’ll sit down and some days I feel like I can write dialog , I can write a scene in dialog. Read More

Alka Joshi returns to Writers Voices with the second installment of her historical fiction trilogy – The Secret Keeper of Jaipur. She talked with us about her novels and her writing process. ” I am not a good person for routines. I’ve never been good with routines. So for me the best thing to do Read More

Lori McMullen grew up in Florida. Her novel – Among the Beautiful Beasts – tells the story of the early life of Everglades advocate Marjory Stoneman Douglas. “Anybody who grew up in south Florida and went through the public school system … knows the name of Marjory Stoneman Douglas.” She is kind of a fixture Read More

Pam Jenoff is with us again talking about her latest novel – The Woman with the Blue Star – Historical fiction set in Poland during WW2 “I like to tell all the stories and I like the gray areas in people. When I grew up, history was very black and white, in broad brush strokes. Read More

Historical Fiction writer Jane Healey describes the core of her fascinating new WW2 spy novel -The Secret Stealers. “The Secret Stealers is based on the trues stories of the women of the OSS, the office of strategic services, which was the precursor to the CIA in WW2… it’s also based on some of the true Read More

Judithe Little talks with us about her latest work of historical fiction – The Chanel Sisters. “ I was first drawn to the idea when I found out Coco had a sister, because I had no idea that she even did. And then I was just so intrigued by the idea of what it would Read More

Jenny Lacoat speaks with WRiters Voices about – The Girl from the Channel Islands – a World War II novel based on real events “The channel islands were the only ( part of Britain) that was occupied during the war…. The islanders were left completely defenseless against the might of the Wehrmacht (Nazi.s)” “This was Read More

“Beyond the Ghetto Gates” is Michelle Cameron’s third published book. She is also a partner in The Writers Circle, teaching creative writing to writers of all ages.  In this interview, we discuss historical fiction, why Cameron focuses on less popular moments in history, writing from multiple points of view, and how The Writers Circle changed Read More

Alka Joshi began writing her novel, “The Henna Artist” at age 51, after leaving a successful career as an advertising copywriter, creative director and marketing consultant. She says that writing ads taught her a lot about the art of creating an engaging story, even if it lasted less than a minute. She was inspired to Read More

“Walking in Stefania’s… shoes and feeling the weight of each decision as she made it. I think we need to feel that so that we wont ever forget it.” Sharon Cameron share with us the making of her historical novel – The light in hidden places – based on the a true story of remarkable Read More

“We like to think we would do something,,,find a way to be heroic..” Katrin Schulmann talks about her life and the stories behind her new novel -This Terrible Beauty. “How do we redeem ourselves, when we are a nation as Germany was…I wanted people to read it and reflect on their own lives and their Read More

“Political scientists and the public at large, don’t pay attention to literature as a component of resistance.” Belgium during the Nazi occupation, E. R. Ramzipoor’s novel – The Ventriloquist – tells how the Belgian resistance published a newspaper poking fun at the Nazis. “There were so many ordinary people who resisted in these crazy creative Read More

“With historical fiction we have an opportunity to examine…a more specific piece of history. So, together with readers we are bringing this history out of the dark.” Ruta Sapetys and her new novel – The Fountains of Silence. “Why is it we know these names like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, but we don’t know much about Read More

“When I write I see it as a movie. I think I write very visually.” Kari Bovee teaches and inspires, talking about her new historical fiction mystery – Grace in the Wings. ” (I) try and figure out the motivation that these people had and put them in a situation that they would have never Read More