Literary Fiction

Set Sail With 4 Books That Take Place at Sea

This month in BookTrib, we are celebrating women’s fiction titles that showcase characters on boating or sea journeys. The sea offers a setting that is a character in itself who can be your character’s savior, or torment them, or destroy them. This journey might last months, a year, a day,…

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationJuly 24, 2023

Fiction Miscellany

Is Forgiveness Ever Easy? Two Authors Get to the Heart of It

We all love a climactic moment of reconciliation when one person proclaims to another “I forgive you!” in a scene that ends with joyful tears, a loving embrace, and the apparent release of some kind of pixie dust that obliterates all pain. While I long to trust the magic and…

Diane ParrishJuly 19, 2023

Fiction

Short Stories Reckon With the Confederacy’s Dark Legacy

Ann Beattie is a genius at creating characters that are three-dimensional and relatable, and she sets them down in surprisingly familiar situations like planting tulips or a family squabble. Readers can easily immerse themselves in Beattie’s worlds. So when she comes out with a new collection of short stories, that’s…

Sherri DaleyJuly 18, 2023

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured

One Man’s Story of Heaven, With Three Different Endings

Mortality isn’t an easy topic to tackle. But that didn’t stop Dave Wolffe from penning After Here (Palmetto Publishing), his speculative and thought-provoking story of life after death. Following the character of Joe Golden, Wolffe fills Heaven with loved ones and strangers who have passed before Joe, all there to…

BookTribJuly 10, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

A Sāmoan-Scottish Girl’s Brave Navigation of Family, Faith and Irreparable Scars

Steven A. Yagyagan’s latest novel, Heather: Tuu Maia Lou Lima Give Me Your Hand, is an imaginative retelling of the real story of Heather Tauvela, a woman who overcame tremendous hardship and trauma to build a new life for herself and her children. When Heather asked Yagyagan to share her…

BookTribJune 29, 2023

Miscellany

Celebrating the Work of Great American Writer Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, considered by many one of America’s greatest writers for his graphic and bleak depictions of the United States and its borderlands in novels like Blood Meridian, The Road and All the Pretty Horses, died on Tuesday at age 89. Over a nearly 60-year career, McCarthy, said by critics…

Wyatt SemenukJune 16, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Touching & Imaginative Journey to Find Peace Beyond Suffering

Not sure whether there is an afterlife? You’re not alone. In fact, if you google the question, you will find 16.8 million entries, all with opinions, theories and images of what the afterlife looks like. In the world of the arts, there are plenty of depictions of what comes next…

Jim AlkonJune 8, 2023

Fiction

Full-Blooded, Moving Historical Debut Featuring Legendary Chinese Pirate Queen

Rita Chang-Eppig's debut historical novel is a lyrical tale of a legendary pirate queen and her struggle to maintain power in the South China Seas. Brimming with poetic language and vivid depictions of life in all its facets, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury Publishing) is a…

Kiersten BjorkMay 30, 2023

Book Club Network Fiction Miscellany

Oprah Makes Her 100th Book Club Selection

Today, Oprah’s Book Club announced the 100th selection since the book club’s launch in 1996. The latest pick is Hello Beautiful (The Dial Press) by Ann Napolitano. Oprah announced her 100th Book Club selection on CBS Mornings, alongside author Ann Napolitano, where she discussed the impact of the book club…

BookTribMarch 14, 2023

Fiction

Woman Returns Home to Uncover Family History — And Fails Spectacularly

New York Times best-selling author Marie Bostwick has succeeded impressively with her latest novel Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly (William Morrow). It deserves to be a summer blockbuster! The dedication neatly summarizes the book’s theme: “To the Spectacular People, those who figure out how to keep going when they feel like…

Linda HitchcockMay 25, 2023

Fiction

Retelling the Story of Little-Known Warrior, Lover & Hero of Greek Mythology

A sad pattern has emerged throughout history — women are often silenced and their stories remain untold. But that pattern has slowly changed over the past century, and you may even notice many authors today giving voice to the previously voiceless. This trend is especially true in retellings of Greek…

Katie BloomerMay 18, 2023

Fiction Miscellany

AuthorBuzz: A Tale of Familial Love and a Novel About the Connective Power of Books

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley (Blue Box Press) Dear Reader, 1928, ParisA boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. He flourishes as they show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak about who he really…

AuthorBuzzMay 8, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Mythological Romp Ripe in Mystery, Mayhem & Music

In Karen Michalson’s novel The Maenad’s God, nothing is what it seems. At once a take-down of the police procedural, FBI detective and lead protagonist Pete Morrow introduces us to his office with sardonic flair: complaints of union-ignored asbestos and a memory of being sworn in after ad-libbing his way…

C RunyonApril 25, 2023

Fiction Recommended Romance

Touching Novel About Old Friends Shows It’s Never Too Late for Forgiveness

Helen Iannucci Spencer thought she could outrun her past, but somehow, it keeps catching up to her. What feels like a lifetime later, she thinks she has buried everything that happened between her and her childhood friend, Cal Crosby. But when the past comes barreling into her life in the…

Megan BeauregardApril 11, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Poignant Exploration of Love, Grief & the Life We Live After Loss

What kind of life can you expect to live after the love of your life is taken from you so violently? What would you do if faced with their killer? How could you possibly move on and love again? Jefferson R. Blackburn-Smith explores those very questions in his latest novel,…

Katie BloomerApril 10, 2023

Fiction

Heartbreaking Story of Greek Mythology’s Most Hated Woman

Kings tend to become heroes to future generations. Heracles, Perseus, Jason, Theseus … songs about them are sung, and their cruel deeds are turned into sunlight. As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. Perhaps my favorite trend in recent years is the growing need for authors to give…

Katie BloomerMarch 22, 2023

Set Sail With 4 Books That Take Place at Sea

Is Forgiveness Ever Easy? Two Authors Get to the Heart of It

One Man’s Story of Heaven, With Three Different Endings

A Sāmoan-Scottish Girl’s Brave Navigation of Family, Faith and Irreparable Scars

Celebrating the Work of Great American Writer Cormac McCarthy

Touching & Imaginative Journey to Find Peace Beyond Suffering

Oprah Makes Her 100th Book Club Selection

AuthorBuzz: A Tale of Familial Love and a Novel About the Connective Power of Books

Mythological Romp Ripe in Mystery, Mayhem & Music

Touching Novel About Old Friends Shows It’s Never Too Late for Forgiveness

Poignant Exploration of Love, Grief & the Life We Live After Loss

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