KPL Podcast

The week on the KPL Podcast we spoke with Cynthia Sweeney about her latest novel, Lake Effect.  The parents of two neighboring families have an affair and breakup the families.  The novel explores long-term effects of divorce on family and how it alters relationships.

Author Reads

Whistler by Ann Patchett

Go Gentle by Marie Semple

This week on the KPL Podcast, we have author Hallie Cantor.  We discussed her latest novel Like This But Funnier.  A debut novel about a TV writer who is having difficulty getting any project into development.  She accidentally finds her therapist husband's notes about a patient and decides to pitch a TV show based on this patient's personal life.  Hollywood loves it but the patient knows nothing about it. An entertaining, witty debut novel

Author Reads

Saves the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody

Refuse to Be Done: How to write and rewrite a novel in three drafts by Matt Bell

Story by Robert McKee

Craft in the Real World, Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping 

by Matthew Salesses

Writing down the Bones: Feeling the writer within by Natalie Goldberg

Bird by Bird: some instructions on writing and life by Anne Lamott

Making Comics by Lynda Barry

This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with Nancy Foley.  She is the author of I Am Agatha, a novel about a woman navigating life after her partner develops dementia.  The novel explores themes of family, grief, memory, art, and family secrets.

True Grit by Charles Portis

Orange is Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Wilson 

Lives of the Saints by Nancy Lemann and Geoff Dyer

They by Helle Helle

This week on the KPL podcast we welcome back author, Liza Tully.  The Forty-Year Grudge is the second book in the Merritt & Blunt series.  The two women are back to solve a murder at a reunion for Aubrey Merritt's sorority.  Great pacing and well-plotted, the book will keep you guessing until the end. 

The Job: True Tales from the life of a New York City Cop by Steve Osborne

This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with Edward Schmit about his debut novel, The Open Era.  The story is about two pro tennis players who begin a romance during the US Open.  One is openly gay and the other is not.  The two must navigate their feelings while still playing a match against each other. The book also delves into mental health and the toll it can take on a person. 

Author Reads

Dearly Departed by Chip Pons

International Relations by  Zac Hammett

The KPL Podcast is back with another great episode. This week we spoke with Wade Rouse about his first novel under his own name.  He also writes under the pen name Viola Shipman.  That's What Friends Are For pays homage to the Golden Girls but also takes on heavy topics, such as aging, homosexuality, the importance of the gay community, and grief with wit and humor. 

Author Reads

The Lost Book of Lancelot by John Glynn

Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson

Awake by Jen Hatmaker

The End of My Life is Killing Me by Annabelle Gurwitch

This week on the KPL podcast we spoke with bestselling author Ruta Sepetys about her latest novel, A Fortune of Sand. Set in 1920s Detroit, about Marjorie Lennox, the youngest daughter of a wealthy automotive family, who joins a mysterious arts program and uncovers dark secrets about her family and the program itself, inspired by real events.

Author Reads

Whistler by Ann Patchett

Scar Island by Dan Gemeinhart

This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with Laura Kamoie, the coauthor of A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams.  This historical fiction takes leads you through Abigail Adam's life as is goes from wife to mother, to first lade, and then founding mother.  This book is an eye opening study of the women of the American Revolution. 

Author Reads

Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

Astral Library by Kate Quinn

The KPL Podcast is back with another great episode with historical fiction writer Donna Jones Alward.   Her latest novel, Ship of Dreams, is set aboard the Titanic  and follows two passengers as they navigate complicated relationships and dream of brighter futures. But when the Titanic strikes disaster, their lives and their plans are forever changed.  

Author Reads and other books 

When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward

Titanic Styles: dress and fashion on the voyage by Grace Evans

The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War by Leslie Low

The Fourth Princess: A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai by Janie Chang

The Third Wife of Faraday House by BR Meyers

A Widow's Charm by Caitlyn Paxson

On this week's episode of the KPL Podcast we have Rachel Moore.  Her latest novel Safari Murder Party is fun, fast paced ride through both the corporate world and the natural world.  A billionaire media mogul dies and his will states that his company and wealth will go to the last survivor of the corporate retreat group.

Author Reads

Half City by Kate Golden