Interview with Booktrope Author Gale Martin

Interview with Booktrope Author Gale Martin

What inspired you to write your first book? This is an embarrassing story but posi-lutely true. I dated a guy in high school whose niece published a bestseller in 2005. Her debut novel became a major motion picture, too, one that plays all the time on TV. When I found...
Interview With Booktrope Author & Country Music Artist Jim Owen

Interview With Booktrope Author & Country Music Artist Jim Owen

1. What inspired you to write your first book? My first book came about because my wife was dying with cancer and I thought I should write a few things down for our great-grandchildren who were not even born yet, so they could have a little idea about the fine stock...
Biking Uphill: Book Two of the Alki Trilogy by Arleen Williams

Biking Uphill: Book Two of the Alki Trilogy by Arleen Williams

Synopsis: Biking home from the Los Arboles Sunday Market, a sunflower yellow teapot snug in her backpack, lonely college student, Carolyn Bauer sees a young teenager huddling under a eucalyptus tree. Carolyn shares her food and water with Antonia as they struggle to...
Spotlight: Work in Progress by Christina Esdon

Spotlight: Work in Progress by Christina Esdon

Synopsis: Psychologist Reese Morgan is a feisty workaholic who has devoted her life to helping seriously ill children. But work is just one of the many walls she has put up to protect herself from the legacies of childhood trauma and heart-wrenching grief. When the...
Interview with Booktrope Author Christina Esdon

Interview with Booktrope Author Christina Esdon

1. What inspired you to write your first book? Many years ago I was going through a very dark period. I was unhappy in many areas of my life and I needed an escape. While reading allowed me some escape, I found myself playing “what if”. “What if a...

Jennifer L. Hotes Reviews Work in Progress by Christina Esdon

Psychologist Reese Morgan is a feisty workaholic who has devoted her life to helping seriously ill children. But work is just one of the many walls she has put up to protect herself from the legacies of childhood trauma and heart-wrenching grief. When the family...
Dirt Nap (A Marnie Baranuik “Between the Files” Story)

Dirt Nap (A Marnie Baranuik “Between the Files” Story)

Synopsis: Jail probably would have been a better place to spend a Thursday afternoon, but when a preternatural expert is needed, there’s no one else who can fill Marnie Baranuik’s Keds. Beset by a rampaging stone monster and a furious quarry owner, trapped...