This month’s INSIDE VOICES is a fun surprise as Jeffrey Dale Lofton along with guest author, Paulette Kennedy, interview this month’s featured author, Robert Gwaltney to talk about his newest novel, Sing Down the Moon.

Robert Gwaltney, a graduate of Florida State University, was named 2023 Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel, and was recipient of the 2022 Pat Conroy Writers Residency. He resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is an active member of the Atlanta literary community serving as a board member for Broadleaf Writers Association. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as Southbound Magazine, Southern Literary Review, The Blue Mountain Review, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. His forthcoming novel, Sing Down The Moon, will be published by Mercer University Press on March 3, 2026.

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Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Donna Everhart

Donna Everhart is a USA Today bestselling author known for vividly evoking challenges of the heart and the complex heritage of the American South in her acclaimed novels When the Jessamine Grows, The Saints of Swallow Hill, The Moonshiner’s Daughter, The Forgiving Kind, The Road to Bittersweet, and The Education of Dixie Dupree. A finalist for the Southern Book Prize, she is the recipient of the prestigious North Carolina Society of Historians Award of Excellence, the SELA Outstanding Southeastern Author Award from the Southeastern Library Association, the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award from the General Federation of Women's Clubs of North Carolina, and her novels have received a SIBA Okra Pick, an Indie Next Pick, and three Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selections.

Her latest novel, Women of a Promiscuous Nature, releases January 27, 2026. Born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, she now lives with her husband in the small town of Dunn, North Carolina where she is currently working on her next novel.

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Susan Gregg Gilmore.

Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novels The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, and The Funeral Dress.  She has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Born in Nashville, she lives in Tennessee with her husband.

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Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce James Wade.

James Wade is the award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth, All Things Left Wild, and River, Sing Out. He is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. James’s work has appeared in Southern Literary Magazine, The Bitter Oleander, Writers’ Digest, and numerous additional publications. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and children. His lates novel, Narrow the Road, was released August 26, 2025 with Blackstone Publishing.

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Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Parul Kapur.

Parul Kapur is a novelist, journalist, and literary critic. Her short fiction centers on the aftermath of colonialism in India and the lives of Indian immigrants. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Wascana Review, Prime Number, Midway Journal, and the anthology {Ex}tinguished & {Ex}tinct. As a journalist and critic, she has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ARTnews, Art in America, Guernica, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review.  Inside the Mirror, which is inspired by her encounters with art world figures in Bombay, won the AWP Prize for the Novel and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Parul was recently named Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel by the Georgia Writers Association.

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Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Lo Patrick.

Lo Patrick is a former lawyer and current novelist living in the suburbs of Atlanta. Her debut, The Floating Girls, earned a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, and was a Reader’s Digest Editor’s Pick. It was named by the Georgia Center for the Book, a book all Georgians should read. She is also the author of The Night the River Wept. Her latest novel, Fast Boys and Pretty Girls was published July 8, 2025.

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Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Andie Burke & Lindsay Hameroff.

Andie Burke writes romantic comedies in between her pediatric RN shifts. She lives in Maryland with an alarming number of books, ultra-fine point pens, dehydrated houseplants, and two small humans. Her debut Fly with Me was listed as one of POPSUGAR’s Best Romance Books of 2023 and AUTOSTRADDLE’s Best Queer Books of the Year. Her latest book is Fall for Him and came out in Fall of last year. Andie has another book coming out this fall With Stars in Her Eyes.

Lindsay Hameroff is the author of Till There Was You, Never Planned on You, and other love stories that make you laugh and swoon in equal measure. Her books have been listed as most anticipated by The Nerd Daily, Zibby Magazine, and other outlets, and her debut novel was selected as one of New York Public Library's "Best New Romance Books." A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she now lives in Harrisburg, PA with her husband and two kids. If she's not writing, reading, or cleaning up cat hair, she's probably at the grocery store.

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Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Flannery Buchanan.

Flannery Buchanan moved to Crozet with her family in 2018 from the Chicago area. She was trained and worked briefly as a school librarian until she began having children and then she stayed home for 15 years raising her four kids. When Flannery was ready to go back to work, she opened Bluebird Bookstop out of a vintage trailer and took it around to vineyards, festivals, coffee shops, anywhere that had people gathering. It was a way for her to test the market without too much overhead. Eventually it became clear that Crozet would support a brick and mortar so Flannery partnered with her friend Chelsea, who had a background in apparel and they opened Bluebird & Company.

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Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Valerie Nieman  

Valerie Nieman is the author of novels and short story and poetry collections. Her novel In the Lonely Backwater won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award and was a Foreword Indies Book of the Year finalist. Her critically acclaimed work includes To the Bones and Blood Clay. She has held a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship. She is a professor emerita at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She is also a former journalist.

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Jeffrey Blount

Jeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of four novels. Almost Snow White, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards, Hating Heidi Foster, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature, The Emancipation of Evan Walls, winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Award for African American fiction and other awards, and Jeffrey's latest novel is Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way, winner of the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for African American Fiction.