BookTrib Guest Author

Susan Wiggs and The Beekeeper’s Ball

If you’re searching for an enchanting spring or summer read, The Beekeeper’s Ball is the perfect choice! Set amid the lush backdrop of Sonoma County, you will be swept away by the beauty of Bella Vista in Susan Wiggs’s sequel to The Apple Orchard, with its tranquil gardens, ripe apple…

BookTrib Guest AuthorMarch 29, 2015

Romance

Brenda Novak discusses finding your story’s core

I love nothing more than a hard-won happily-ever-after. Maybe that’s why I gravitate toward redemption stories. At some point, we’ve all done something we regret, created some challenge or obstacle we struggle to overcome. In This Heart of Mine, the latest addition to my Whiskey Creek series, Phoenix Fuller has…

BookTrib Guest AuthorMarch 21, 2015

Fiction

Susan Mallery on how friendship starts

Finding our one true, romantic love is important, but it’s not the only cornerstone relationship of a happy life. We have just as deep a need for friends. The craving for connection is fundamental and universal, and so we search for our tribe. The infinite variations of friendship fascinate me.…

BookTrib Guest AuthorJanuary 25, 2015

Nonfiction

A rabbi reveals the colorful history of the Jews of Asia

In his latest book, Pepper, Silk and Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East (Gefen Publishing House, 2014), Rabbi Marvin Tokayer regales the reader with stories of Jews who traversed the Far East—from Burma, China and Japan to all points in between—and who made significant contributions in ancient…

BookTrib Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2014

Nonfiction

Hearing the Voice of the Woman Behind the Veil

By Bina Shah If you go to a bookstore, chances are you'll see a lot of veiled women looking at you. They gaze mysteriously at you from behind veils covering their faces, revealing only large, dark, kohl-lined eyes. Their veils may be black, or they may be coloured and decorated…

BookTrib Guest AuthorNovember 3, 2014

Nonfiction

Defining her destiny in the face of domestic violence

Domestic violence still happens far too often. Despite national attention, it happens in homes every day in every state in our country. One out of every four women will experience domestic violence during their lifetime. I am one of those women. My story of abuse began at age 19. It…

BookTrib Guest AuthorOctober 16, 2014

Fiction

International author Bina Shah discusses Sindh, Sufism and storytelling

The original title of my novel A Season For Martyrs was meant to be Children of Sindh. Sindh is one of the four provinces that make up Pakistan, and it’s where I was born and where I live today. When I sat down to write the book, I envisioned an…

BookTrib Guest AuthorOctober 6, 2014

Nonfiction

The forgotten hero who helped save England in World War II

Harry Hopkins entered my life in my final year at St. Andrews University in Scotland when my tutor, who was from Texas, wanted me to assess the reputation of a man who had fallen “through a trapdoor in history.” I had never heard of Harry Hopkins before and nor, as…

BookTrib Guest AuthorOctober 1, 2014

Fiction

Kira Peikoff discusses how a life-changing event inspired her latest novel

When I was 7 years old, my father had a heart attack. Not one that killed him, thank God. He was rushed to the hospital in time for doctors to clear his blocked artery. No one was all that surprised. My dad had smoked three packs a day for 30…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 13, 2014

Miscellany

Anna Godbersen on fathers, daughters and life imitating art

by Anna Godbersen I suppose every writer has a life imitates art story, and this is mine. At the end of summer, I sent my agent a hundred pages of what I hoped would become my first novel for grownups, and flew to Greece. This should have felt triumphant and…

BookTrib Guest AuthorJune 10, 2014

Nonfiction

Graduation tips for parents of high school seniors

By Wendy Arronson June has arrived and millions of high school seniors are hunkered down studying for finals. With the finish line clearly visible and the days to graduation’s pomp and circumstance only a few weeks away, teens across the country are looking forward to a well-deserved celebration. While parents…

BookTrib Guest AuthorJune 5, 2014

Miscellany

When aliens attack: The Rule of Unintended Consequences in the garden

How would you feel if you were the person responsible for kudzu? Assuming for a second that the blame for the Vine that Ate the South could be pinned on just one person, and you were that person, would you feel guilty? Defensive? Or would you just not care? Or…

BookTrib Guest AuthorMay 6, 2014

Romance

It’s not what you write, it’s where you write it

By J. Kenner All my books have a place. And I don’t mean the setting. I mean The Place where the book was primarily written (I might switch locations now and then, but each book has a Center of Operations)—and that place is inextricably tied up in my mind with…

BookTrib Guest AuthorApril 1, 2014

Nonfiction

Animal psychic communicates with Rhoda Lerman’s pets, alive or dead

Click to learn more. By Rhoda Lerman No one is more skeptical than my husband about things mystical and inexplicable and unscientific. “Hocus pocus” is his word for these strange happenings. This is certainly true when it comes to calling animal psychic Mary Long on the phone and listening to…

BookTrib Guest AuthorMarch 11, 2014

Nonfiction

“I would rather be assassinated on this spot…”: Daniel Stashower on Lincoln, Presidents Day, and secret plots

by Daniel Stashower On the eve of the Civil War in 1861, Abraham Lincoln ignored a looming threat against his life and gave an emotionally charged speech in honor of George Washington’s birthday. “All imagination,” Abraham Lincoln was reported to say when confronted with threats against his life. “What does…

BookTrib Guest AuthorFebruary 17, 2014

Fiction

It’s like we were the same person: Colette McBeth on the power of female friendships

by Colette McBeth I met my best friend on my first day at a new school. We were eight years old. There was a spare seat next to a girl called Helene and my teacher instructed me to fill it. From that moment we slotted in next to each other,…

BookTrib Guest AuthorFebruary 14, 2014

BookTrib Guest Author

Susan Wiggs and The Beekeeper’s Ball

Brenda Novak discusses finding your story’s core

Susan Mallery on how friendship starts

A rabbi reveals the colorful history of the Jews of Asia

Hearing the Voice of the Woman Behind the Veil

Defining her destiny in the face of domestic violence

International author Bina Shah discusses Sindh, Sufism and storytelling

The forgotten hero who helped save England in World War II

Kira Peikoff discusses how a life-changing event inspired her latest novel

Anna Godbersen on fathers, daughters and life imitating art

Graduation tips for parents of high school seniors

When aliens attack: The Rule of Unintended Consequences in the garden

It’s not what you write, it’s where you write it

Animal psychic communicates with Rhoda Lerman’s pets, alive or dead

“I would rather be assassinated on this spot…”: Daniel Stashower on Lincoln, Presidents Day, and secret plots

It’s like we were the same person: Colette McBeth on the power of female friendships

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