Southern author Janie Dempsey Watts has written two novels: Moon Over Taylor's Ridge ​ and Return to Taylor's Crossing. Both were set in North Georgia, the area where she resides. But she’s also spent decades in California and traveled globally. Her newest work is a collection of short stories, Mothers, Sons, Beloveds, and Other Strangers ​, and the collection is divided, geographically, into three sections: stories set in the South, stories set in California, and stories in Europe.