Yesterday I reviewed Mountainfit, a beautiful little book of essays by Meera Lee Sethi about her summer volunteering at a bird observatory in Sweden. If you missed the review, I’ll be happy to wait while you go check it out now. Want the short version? Read it. Beautiful, descriptive language that evokes the wildlife and […]
Please welcome Dr. Richard Mabry, author of the medical suspense novel, Lethal Remedy! SATURDAYS IN THE SOUTH Saturdays in the south—wow, that phrase conjures up a delightful picture: sleeping late, enjoying a leisurely breakfast, reading or catching a movie. For some people, maybe that’s accurate. For others, Saturday means shuttling kids to soccer games, attacking […]
Please welcome author Robin Caroll to the blog today! She is the author of Injustice For All, just released in January. She’s posting about something near and dear to Southern hearts–food! As a southern lady, food is very vital to me. It’s part of who we are in the South, as well as the preparation […]
Please welcome author Michael Hervey to the blog today! His first novel, Soundkeeper, is currently available for Kindle. It will be available as a nook- and iBook by the end of March, and in paperback by the end of April. “They went back outside and Silas locked up the office. Persimmon clouds with cinnamon edges […]
Please join me in welcoming Melinda McGuire, author of Josephine: Red Dirt and Whiskey, to the blog today! I have been so anxious to share her guest post with you! She made me “homesick,” for lack of a better word, for my younger days and endless, hot Saturdays. I’m not usually a person who lives […]
Please welcome Taylor M. Polites, author of The Rebel Wife, which was just released on Tuesday!
One piece of Huntsville, Alabama that I have always carried with me is the beautiful, antebellum […]
Today, please welcome author Susan Kelly to The Introverted Reader. She’s a fellow North Carolinian! As a senior in boarding school, in the very Southern city of Richmond, Virginia, I took a course titled “Southern Fiction,” and, as my teacher later described it, “fell into a hole,” which she intended as a high compliment. The […]
Today I welcome Kathryn Lively, author of Little Flowers, to the blog for the first post in my new Saturdays in the South feature! Hello, and thank you for joining me today. My name is Kathryn Lively and I guess you can say I am a Southerner. I have lived in the South all of […]
Today I have a guest post from author Stephanie Queen for you. Her newest novel, The Throwbacks, was just published this week! Congratulations, Stephanie! Be sure to look out for her previous novel, Between a Rock and a Mad Woman, as well. You know you ‘re in trouble as a writer when you interview one […]
The Classics By Caroline Taggart, Author of The Classics: All You Need to Know, from Zeus’s Throne to the Fall of Rome Do you know Latin? How about Greek? Odds are you know more than you think. The influence of these “classical” civilizations is incredibly widespread. The classics have left their mark on our language, […]
Today wraps up Banned Books Week. I have to admit that I was a little stumped for something to write. I feel like I’ve said everything I wanted to say with my opinion piece last week. I didn’t want to post more reviews. Staring at my computer screen and the cursor blinking insistently back at […]