A Book and a Chat

Nominated for a RITA in the Mainstream with Romantic Elements Category!

Karen has just released her tenth published novel, THE LOST HOURS (April 7th)

"When I sat down to start writing that very first book (IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON), I don't think it really ever occurred to me that I would finish much less get that book published--let alone write and publish nine more books!"

Interview with reader and blogger of

http://thepageflipper.blogspot.com/

A chat with multi award winning author Joyce Stengel.

Children's writer of picture books to tweens and teens.

Joyce A. Stengel (1938-) Biography - Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Honors Awards, Writings, Work in Progress, Sidelights

Saturday March 28th

Beth Fehlbaum’s tragic childhood was the inspiration for her first novel.

Fehlbaum grew up in the Dallas area and has been teaching for 10 years.

She said she began going to a therapist to help deal with childhood sexual abuse about four years ago.

“I wasn’t handling my life very well. All the tricks I had used to keep from thinking about it weren’t working anymore,” she said. “I was living in a place of anxiety and fear.”

Fehlbaum said her therapist suggested she write a novel. She said she wrote the book over a six-month period in 2007. “It took me four months to pull myself out of my own head and get beyond my own pain and grief to be able to tell someone else’s story,” she said in a question and answer with The Lariat Online. “But once I was able to do that, to look at the experience of sexual abuse and recovery from an observer’s standpoint, the story flowed.”

Her book, “Courage in Patience,” is a fictional account of a 15-year-old girl, Ashley Nicole Asher, who is sexually abused by her stepfather. Fehlbaum said the first two chapters are about the character’s past, and the rest is about recovery.

I will be talking about virtual book tour, my experience with Pump Up Your Book Promotion PR"

I will be letting people know about the wonderful guests that I also have lined up for the next few weeks as well as letting you know a little about your host Storyheart.

Would love people to dial in asking about virtual book tours, my book Across the Pond or even England itself.

A book and a chat with author Kim Smith about her new book, how she writes and how her resent tour went