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Rebecca Hanover is the New York Times bestselling author of THE SIMILARS duology. After graduating from Stanford University with a BA in English and drama, Rebecca joined the writing team of the CBS daytime drama GUIDING LIGHT, where she earned an Emmy Award. Still, she never lost her love of books—particularly YA. She now writes Young Adult as well as adult novels full-time from her home in San Francisco, where she enjoys matcha lattes and a complete lack of seasons. When she isn’t writing, she can be found in a yoga class or reading anything Dav Pilkey with her husband and three kiddos.

Learn more at rebeccahanover.com

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Laurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of four (going on five) novels. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Publisher’s Weekly, People Magazine, Lit Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald, and other publications. She is the recipient of the Washington State Book Award and the Endeavor Award. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and been optioned for film and TV. A former college professor, she now writes full-time in Seattle, Washington where she lives with her family and makes good soup.

Learn more at lauriefrankel.net

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PEG TYRE, the bestselling author of The Trouble with Boys, was, until recently, a senior writer at Newsweek specializing in social trends and education. She has won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, a Clarion Award, and a National Education Writers Association Award. She lives in New York City with her husband, novelist Peter Blauner, and their two sons. 

Her acclaimed novel, Strangers in the Night, was recently rereleased twenty-seven years after its original publication. 

Learn more at pegtyre.com 

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Erin Hoover was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two poetry collections: Barnburner (Elixir, 2018), which won the Antivenom Poetry Award and a Florida Book Award, and No Spare People (Black Lawrence, 2023). Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and in journals such as Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and The Sun. Hoover lives in Tennessee and teaches creative writing at Tennessee Tech University. She curates and hosts a poetry reading series, Sawmill Poetry, and produces the “Not Abandon, but Abide” monthly interview series for the Southern Review of Books.  Her most recent collection of poems can be found within her latest release, NO SPARE PEOPLE.

Learn more at erinhooverpoet.com 

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Gareth Russell is a historian and broadcaster, educated at Oxford University and Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of nine books. He is host of the podcast Single Malt History with Gareth Russell.  Russell divides his time between London and Belfast, Northern Ireland. 

In THE PALACE, Russell presents 500 years of the British monarchy, from King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II, through a unique lens--their connections to specific rooms at Hampton Court Palace. Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James’s translation of the Bible, the staging of many of Shakespeare’s plays, and Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation ball.

Learn more at: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Gareth-Russell/500660891

Follow Gareth at Instagram: @_garethrussell; Twitter: @garethrussell1.

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Book Blogger and author Kerry Clare joins the podcast to discuss her new book Asking for a Friend. It is a novel about intense female friendship and how key relationships created in our youth endure or break apart. We also chat about her blog Pickle Me This and her role as editor of the book recommendation site 49th Shelf. We wrap up with five hot books perfect for all the people on your holiday gift giving list.

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Instagram: @kerryreads
Blog: Pickle Me This
Book Recommendation Site: 49th Shelf

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Alison Greenberg is an author and screenwriter who lives in Atlanta, but is quick to say she was born in New York City. While attending The University of Southern California, Alison took her first screenwriting class and fell head over heels. A journey from screenwriting led to marketing jobs, before coming full-circle back to her first love. Alison speaks fluent rom-com, lives for 90’s WB dramas, cries to Taylor Swift, and is a proud single mom to her two incredible kids, two cats, and one poorly-trained dog. 

Learn more at: AlisonRoseGreenberg.com

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Virginia Pye’s collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, won the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction. Her novels, River of Dust and Dreams of the Red Phoenix, have also received literary awards. Her short story collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, (Press 53) won the 2019 Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Short Fiction, and one of its stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her essays have appeared in Literary Hub, New York Times, The Rumpus, Huffington Postand elsewhere. Virginia graduated from Wesleyan University and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She has been a Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar, an assistant at the Virginia Quarterly Review Conference, and a repeat fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.She’s taught at New York University and the University of Pennsylvania and most recently at GrubStreet in Boston. Her latest novel is The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann. 

Learn more at https://www.virginiapye.com

Special thanks to NetGalley for a preview of this novel. 
@netgalley

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Leah Redmond Chang writes biography and literary non-fiction, with a focus on women’s history. Trained as a literature scholar, her books draw on her extensive research in the archives and in rare book libraries. A former tenured professor of French Literature and Culture at The George Washington University, she has also been an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London. She lives with her husband and three children in Washington DC, and spends as much time as possible in London, her favorite city. 

Learn more at leahredmondchang.com

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Kelly J. Ford is the author of the crime novels, Real Bad Things and Cottonmouths, which has “impressive depths of character and setting,” according to the Los Angeles Review, which named it one of its Best Books of 2017. An Arkansas native, Kelly writes crime fiction set in the Ozarks and Arkansas River Valley. She currently lives on Cape Cod.

Learn more about Kelly here: 

Website: https://kellyjford.com/

Instagram: @kellyjfordauthor                    

Twitter: @Kelly_J_Ford

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Hi Red Fern Listeners! I was recently a guest on a fabulous wine podcast called The TallMikeWine Podcast. Host Mike Stone and I talk about, what else, but books and wine.  I offer up a mini summer reading list and Mike explains how he comes up with all those wine adjectives. Mike is a self-professed wine geek who creates fun, relatable conversations around wine. And did I mention that he is a former disc jockey? Enjoy, and I will be back in the fall with a new lineup.

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Brett Crozier grew up in California, graduated from the United States Naval Academy, and embarked on a thirty-year career in the Navy, flying dozens of combat missions over Iraq and leading at the highest levels of operational command. He served as the commanding officer of a combat F/A-18 strike fighter squadron, the world’s largest and most advanced communications ship, and ultimately the USS Theodore Roosevelt before retiring from the Navy in 2022. Surf When You Can is his first book. Please visit: https://surfwhenyoucan.com/

2019 Navy feature on Brett Crosier:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87EEPZ5mf1A&authuser=1

Brett's Retirement Ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-xkk-ooxk&t=7s&authuser=1

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Amy and Geoff review the popular fiction novel Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson and literary fiction novel Ghost Music by An Yu. Pineapple Street is a bird's eye view into the moneyed Brooklyn Heights family The Stocktons. Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, marries into the family and tries to find her way. Set in Beijing, Ghost Music is a quiet book that examines the sad life of retired concert pianist Song Yan. A mysterious parcel of mushrooms begins arriving at her door each week and suddenly her life changes. Geoff also talks about his third failed attempt at reading Cormac McCarthy.

Books and Resources discussed:

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
Ghost Music by An Yu
Braised Pork by An Yu
Wiser than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, podcast
The Diplomat, Netflix

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Nancy Crochiere wrote a humor column about family life for Massachusetts newspapers for thirteen years. Her collection of those columns, titled The Mother Load, was a finalist for Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year in humor and the Independent Publishers of New England 2014 Book Award. A graduate of Middlebury College, she earned a master’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota, is an alumna of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, and worked as a development editor for various educational publishers. Her essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, Writer’s Digest, and WBUR’s Cognoscenti blog. She began her fiction career when her daughters were young by penning creative notes to excuse their tardiness at school. With her girls now grown, she lives north of Boston with her husband, a lawyer and marathoner, and a few house plants that could use more attention. Graceland is her first novel.

“Graceland is a sparkling, warm-hearted, witty debut. I so enjoyed joining these three generations of women on their action-packed road trip to Memphis!” — Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Learn more at nancycrochiere.com

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Alisa Lynn Valdés is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than 1 million books in print in 11 languages. She started her writing career as an award-winning staff writer for The Boston Globe and The Los Angeles Times.

 Alisa holds a bachelor's degree in music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she majored in jazz performance on the tenor saxophone. Her master's in journalism comes from Columbia University in New York City.

For twenty years, Alisa was a fitness professional, an educator for the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America. After 15 years away from her native New Mexico, Alisa returned, to write novels. When she's not writing, Alisa enjoys hiking, camping, fly fishing, kayaking and photography. A deeply spiritual person, Alisa was raised as an atheist but changed her view after a profound near-death experience in which she crossed over for a while.

Alisa once owned her own boutique scone bakery and is now working on her keto and paleo baking skills. She's a volunteer with New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors. If she got to start over again, she'd choose to be a game warden instead of a writer. So now she's doing the next best thing, and writing novels about Jodi Luna, a fictional New Mexico game warden. HOLLOW BEASTS is out now!

Learn more at: https://www.alisa-valdes-rodriguez.com/

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Lexie Elliott has been writing for as long as she can remember, but she began to focus on it more seriously after she lost her banking job in 2009 due to the Global Financial Crisis. After some success in short story competitions, she began planning a novel. With two kids and a (new) job, it took some time for that novel to move from her head to the page, but the result was The French Girl, which was published by Berkley in February 2018 - available on Amazon now! This was followed by The Missing Years in 2019 and How To Kill Your Best Friend in 2021. She is now working on her fourth novel.

When she's not writing, Lexie can be found running, swimming or cycling whilst thinking about writing. In 2007 she swam the English Channel solo. She won't be doing that again. In 2015 she ran 100km, raising money for Alzheimer Scotland. She won't be doing that again either. But the odd triathlon or marathon isn't out of the question. Lexie's latest novel is Bright and Deadly Things.

Learn more at: www.lexieelliott.com
www.facebook.com/lexieelliottwrites

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Allison Winn Scotch is the bestselling author of nine novels (tenth on its way), including BETWEEN ME AND YOU, IN TWENTY YEARS, TIME OF MY LIFE, which is currently in development at Sony Pictures, and THE REWIND.  Allison graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Honors History and Concentration in Marketing from the Wharton School of Business.

When she’s not planted in front of the computer, she’s hiking, running, doing yoga, reading, listening to music, negotiating with her teenagers, or hanging out in Los Angeles with her family and their pooches, Hugo and Mr. Peanut.

Learn more at www.allisonwinn.com  

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Elizabeth Shick is an award-winning novelist whose creativity is influenced by her many years living abroad, including six years in Myanmar. Originally from Newton, Massachusetts, she grew up dreaming of other worlds, both real and imagined.

As an Africana Studies major at Vassar College, Liz spent a transformative year at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania studying Literature and Revolution, Imperialism and Liberation, and African Wood Carving. She went on to obtain a Master of International Affairs in Economic and Political Development and a Certificate of African Studies from Columbia University.

Liz has since worked for a variety of international development organizations and humanitarian agencies in Angola, Italy, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Tanzania, and The Gambia. Along the way, she met and married her Italian-Australian husband and raised two wonderful and worldly daughters and three well-traveled cats.

An avid reader of literature from around the world, Liz started writing fiction in 2005 and has been scribbling away ever since. In 2019, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Her debut novel, The Golden Land, is the winner of the 2021 AWP Prize for the Novel.

Liz and her husband now live in Dhaka, Bangladesh, returning to West Tisbury, Massachusetts as often as possible.

Learn more at elizabethshick.com

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After being born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lauren Thoman eventually moved with her husband to live outside of Nashville, Tennessee. 

Although her degree was in music education, Lauren quickly realized that the life of a band director was not for her. After exploring various other fields for a few years, she started working on her first novel when her second child started preschool. However, those early manuscripts never made it all the way to publication, and after a few years, Lauren decided to try her hand at pop culture writing, combining her passion for writing with her lifetime love of watching and analyzing movies and TV shows. 

It didn’t take long for Lauren to become a frequent contributor to a number of prominent online pop culture outlets, such as Parade, Vulture, POPSUGAR, Looper, and Collider, leaving little time for writing books. For a few years, Lauren took a break from creative writing as she focused more on freelancing, enjoying the opportunity to get her writing in front of a wider community of readers. (Including The Rock. Three. Times.)

Eventually, though, in between article deadlines, she managed to finish another book, one that she’d started years before and then set aside. She called it I'LL STOP THE WORLD. And a few months later, much to her delighted surprise, Mindy Kaling decided to publish it. 

Lauren still lives outside of Nashville with her husband and two children in a chaotic household that also includes an assortment of rescue and foster dogs and an ever-increasing quantity of fish. When she's not writing, she's probably on the hunt for tacos or coffee, or buried underneath a pile of dogs.

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Kelly Farmer (she/her) has been writing romance novels since junior high. In those days, they featured high school quarterbacks named Brad who drove Corvettes and gals with names like Desireé because her own name is rather plain. Her stories since then have ranged from historical and contemporary male/female romances to light women’s fiction to LGBTQ+ romance. One theme remains the same: everyone deserves to have a happy ending.

When not writing, she enjoys being outside in nature, quoting from Eighties movies, listening to all kinds of music, and petting every dog she comes in contact with. All of these show up in her books. She also watches a lot of documentaries to satisfy her hunger for random bits of trivia. Kelly lives in the Chicago area, where she swears every winter is her last one there.

To connect with Kelly, talk about current TV binges, and subscribe to her newsletter for access to FREE bonus stories in the Out on the Ice Series, please head over to:

https://www.kellyfarmerauthor.com/

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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20094508.Kelly_Farmer

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