Just One More Chapter Podcast

Is it possible to love someone you've never met? A young woman finds out in this sweeping will-they-or-won't-they love story that begins with a chance wrong number dial. . . 

The Man I Never Met is a cross between Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail.  

Y’all know I love a great meet-cute…and this delivers.  Take a listen to our podcast chat and add this book to your TBR list. 

Lynda Cohen Loigman joins me today to discuss one of my favorite books of the year - The Matchmaker’s Gift.  This book is a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places.

It's ironic.  Words are kind of my thing!  For some reason, I both can't stop thinking and talking about this book...but I also can't come up with the words to describe it.  Why is that? This book touched my soul.  It struck a different cord after recently marrying my soulmate Todd Moore.  I laughed and cried....even cut out of work early to get back to it! 

The one word that keeps coming to my mind is one I read in The Matchmaker's Gift - bashert which is the Yiddish word for a soulmate!   I guarantee this book will move you in ways you didn't see coming!

The Cloisters is a sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters. 

Katy Hays joins me today to discuss her debut novel The Cloisters.  This book reminded me of a cross between Alex Michaelides’ The Maidens and Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code (that became a movie with Tom Hanks)...but with an NYC backdrop.  This is a must-read!!!!

Meg Mitchell Moore joins me today to discuss all things Vacationland which is a delicious summer read set in Maine, tackling family secrets, marriage, motherhood, and privilege.

This book got a stamp of approval by the one and only Queen of Summer Elin Hildebrand which is how I heard about this new to me author.  As many of you know, I LOVE smut books (or beach reads) in a big way….and this one is PERFECT! 

I hope you enjoy our podcast chat and the book as much as I did. 

They couldn’t wait to stay here.

A wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation—but the island itself, known locally as Reaper’s Rock, has a dark past. Once the playground of a serial killer, it’s rumored to be cursed.

But now they can’t leave.

A young woman is found dead below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But Detective Elin Warner soon learns the victim wasn’t a guest—she wasn’t meant to be on the island at all.

And they would do anything to escape.

Today, we are chatting with Sarah Pearse about her second book The Retreat in the Detective Elin series.  She wrote The Santorium which was a Reese book club pick.  

Can you imagine a universe where Agatha Christie and Stephen King collaborate on a book? That is exactly Sarah’s writing style.  Take listen to our fabulous podcast chat, y’all!

The Holiday Swap is a feel-good, holiday rom-com about identical twins who swap lives twelve days before Christmas.

All they want for Christmas is a different life.

This holiday rom-com is the PERFECT way to get in the holiday spirit.  The Holiday Swap has the vibe of a Hallmark holiday movie...need I say more?!

Take a listen to my chat with one of the two authors behind the pen name Maggie Knox.   Happy holidays, y’all! 

EIGHT PERFECT HOURS is a romance and starts with a meet-cute in a usually very unromantic place. This book is about destiny, timing, and how one choice can change the trajectory of your whole life.

Lia Louis and I talk about mental health in a big way as it’s front and center for many of the characters in her book.  Take a listen, y’all!

Every month, a letter. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Each month, she gives Josh a letter containing a task to help him face this first year without her, leading him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again. 

PACK UP THE MOON totally stole my heart this Summer!   Kristan Higgins delivers a heartbreaking love story with a happy ending - just not the one you expect.  Take a listen to our podcast chat, y’all! 

It’s a “gripping”  mystery about a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her life—until he disappears.

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. 

Laura Dave joins me today to kick off Season 5 of the podcast.  The LAST THING HE TOLD ME was a Reese Book Club pick...and it’s soon to be an Apple TV limited series starring and co-produced by Julia Roberts.

Take a listen to our fabulous chat!  

Did you follow Amanda Kloots’ story last year about her husband Nick Cordero’s public battle with COVID-19 and tragic death?  It made headlines around the world.

Amanda Kloots and I chat during this podcast about her book Live Your Life.  This book brings out all the feelings for Amanda, Anna, Biggie, their entire family AND honestly all of us collectively.  I cried, laughed, cried some more and just hugged my man harder and longer after reading this book.  

We talk about early covid days, the angels that kept showing up in Amanda’s life and how important a daily sweat is to her mental health.   

Take a listen to our chat.