Kathryn Berla talks about her new novel – the Kitty Committee, a haunting novel of obsession, regret and the search for absolution. “I usually write about redemption or I like to write about redemption. There is usually an aspect of that in all of my books. So I feel like Grace, ( the main character) Read More

“It’s a dangerous story about a dangerous place..” Roger Johns talks about his newest mystery novel – River of Secrets. “Baton Rouge has a lot of elements to it that seemed…at some instinctive level more accommodating to stories of the kind I wanted to tell…. When you write a mystery it has to work like Read More

“I often did try to kind of look up at the clouds and imagine that I was moving them myself. .. (a ) little glimmer of this idea of a character, a long, long time ago”. Cai Emmons talks to Writers’ Voices about her new book – Weather Woman. ” I wanted her power to Read More

Christina Dalcher on her new novel – Vox. “It’s a dystopian novel about what happens when a particular faction gains power and decides to silence a large portion of the population…. I did write Vox with a particular faction being in charge and a particular faction being oppressed, but it could have gone the other Read More

Marie Unanue talks with Monica and Caroline about her new children’s book – The Adventures of Phatty & Payaso, Central Park. “Characterlab.org (has) researched children.. they have come up with the character skills that are missing in today’s children…Empathy is such a hard skill to teach, because you have to ask the child to be Read More

“I suspect that most if not all the people we have thought of as evil…I suspect that there has been some extreme malfunction going on in their brains, that is what I believe.” Writers Voices talks with Sue Klebold on her book – A Mother’s Reckoning – Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, Sue is Read More

Barb Hall speaks with Writers Voices about the creation of – Women and the Land. A book celebrating women farmers of Iowa. Some of the women came to farming; “follow(ing) in their mother’s’ footsteps,” others left the farm swearing never to return only to find their way back “because something was missing”. The conversation highlights Read More

“I always thought I wanted to embark on this incredible journey of writing a novel…” Writers Voices interviews Kate Hamer on her new book – The Doll Funeral. The topics ranging from the process of getting published, “The more I talk to everybody that’s published, the route to publication is always very circuitous, and takes Read More

It began with a photo album, looking at pictures of the past brought it all back, the thoughts, the feelings, the perspective of that time, “The book just flowed out of me from there.” Rhoda Orme-Johnson speaks with Monica about her new book Inside Maharishi’s Ashram. A memoir about the early days of the TM Read More

I am much more interested in the truth, in words being used to advance the truth, or advance goodness, and so I do prefer to write.” Sonia Taitz talks with Writers Voices, about writing and her latest novel, Great with Child. “Writing is a little bit like dreaming. When you have a dream a lot Read More