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Wicked City is the first novel in the Jazz Age series by Beatriz Williams.   She begins the tale in New York City, but takes readers back to a very historical time in this city.   What were times like back then?   How will this tale begin? Facebook   Twitter     Instagram “When she discovers her banker, husband has been harboring a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes her SoHo loft for a studio in Greenwich Village. Her charismatic musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight, when a symphony of mysterious noise strikes up—laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling scream—even though the space has been empty for decades. Back in the Roaring Twenties, the basement was home to one of the city’s most notorious speakeasies. In 1924, Geneva “Gin” Kelly, a quick-witted flapper from the hills of western Maryland, is a regular at this Village hideaway. Caught up in a raid, Gin lands in the offic...

Good morning!   Writer’s Corner presents exclusive access to Karen White’s next book Dreams of Falling .   Readers will get a chance to preview this upcoming book.  Her next book will once again visit secrets from the past. Larkin must find out what happened in the past to save the future. To preorder a copy of Dreams of Falling at these retailers: Amazon         Barnes and Noble       Indiebound Karen White is available on these platforms: Facebook     Twitter      Instagram Caol Ait: Thin Places. Gaelic for where this world and the next are said to be too close. According to legend, heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in thin places, that distance is even closer. Carrowmore, in County Sligo, Ireland, is one of many such thin places found throughout the world, a place where time stands still and the secular world brushes against the sacred. chapter 1 ...

When you spend enough time with Karen White and Beatriz Williams you learn to enjoy their sense of humor.   I very much enjoyed their discussions on what would be the next title of this novel that they worked on with Lauren Willig .   I was bummed when the Memory of Air was not chosen as the title.   The title chosen was The Glass Ocean and it tells quite the tale, of the Lusitania. “ May 2013 Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS  Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced Member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago...

Thank you to St. Martins Griffin for a copy of Katrina Van Tassel’s Spellbook by Alyssa Palombo.  I was given this novel in exchange for an honest review. How many of you have seen the Disney cartoon about Ichabob Crane?  Did you any of you ever read the novel written by Washington Irving?   If you have read the original book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ; did you agree with Washington Irving’s creation of his characters?  Alyssa Palombo chose to share the story from Katrina Van Tassel's an original  character point of view.   Twitter     Instagram “When Ichabod Crane arrives in the s pooky little village of Sleepy Hollow as the new schoolmaster, Katrina Van Tassel is instantly drawn to him. Through their shared love of books and music, they form a friendship that quickly develops into romance. Ichabod knows that as an itinerant schoolteacher of little social standing, he has nothing to offer the wealthy Katrina – unlike her chi...

Almost Sisters is the most recent novel by Joshilyn Jackson.   She is a local author in the Atlanta area.   I often go and visit the local authors.   I saw Joshilyn Jackson with Patti Callahan Henry at a local library.   She discussed her work with prisoners in one of the local prisons where she teaches creative writing.   Facebook    Twitter      “Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She’s having a baby boy—an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old’s life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachel’s marr...