I’m following up on my most recent curation of quotes, links, and book information drawn from my regular Tweets about the Deborah Kalb book/author Q&As.
Deborah continues to do heroic work on these interviews, often posting several a day, with fiction and nonfiction authors. It’s easy to see why she’s developed a devoted following of authors, editors, publishers, publicists, librarians, and other book lovers.
Below you will find authors with links to their Q&A; book titles, and a quote from their interview with Deborah.
If you are in search of potential books for gift-giving, or ideas for books to read in 2023, these authors have got you covered!
Author: Devoney Looser
Book: Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
Author quote: “I’m a library rat, for sure, which means that researching this book always had great pleasures for me.”
Author: Andrea J. Stein
Book: Typecast
Author quote: “The first glimmer of Typecast came when I heard about a man who had made a short film about his relationship with his college girlfriend, about 10 years after graduating.”
Author: Catherine Hand
Book: Becoming a Warrior: My Journey to Bring A Wrinkle in Time to the Screen
Author quote: “I think it has endured because readers see themselves in Madeleine’s search for meaning.”
Author: Carrie Jarosinski
Book: Reclaim Your Story: Renew Your Health and Wellness through the Power of Storytelling
Author quote: “If we can reboot that messaging from within and build a foundation of trusting our body and our mind, we can harness the positive power of internal storytelling to launch and sustain behavior change.”
Author: Sorayya Khan
Book: We Take Our Cities with Us
Author quote: “Paintings are an important part of my book. This is especially true of the Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp’s Herder met een kudde schepen…”
Author: Shauna Robinson
Book: The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
Author quote: “Bell River is entirely fictional, but I do love visiting cities that have anything to do with famous authors. I’m a sucker for a museum or a site dedicated to an author!”
Author: Ronna Wineberg
Book: Artifacts and Other Stories
Author quote: “Artifacts are objects from an earlier time and have a history, but when collected, they are firmly rooted in the present and take on a different life.”
Author: Cole Haddon
Book: Psalms for the End of the World
Author quote: “My editor loves to call it a “triple disc concept album of a book,” which I’ve always really liked as a description.”
Author: Lisa Sherman
Book: Forget Me
Author quote: “Even though I do not, nor have I ever practiced criminal law, I think once a person has gone through law school, they simply cannot help looking at certain situations through a legal lens…for better or worse!”
Author: Larry Hart
Book: The Recruit’s Playbook: A 4-Year Guide to College Football Recruitment for High School Athletes
Author quote: “It’s especially helpful to low socioeconomic students with limited resources. I’ve always believed that knowledge/education is a great equalizer.”
Author: Sarah Adlakha
Book: Midnight on the Marne
Author quote: “It also explores human nature to a certain extent, and the human psyche. How knowing the possible outcome of a decision – having seen it in real life – can really test your moral fortitude.”
Author: C.W. Gortner
Book: The American Adventuress
Author quote: “What most fascinated me was that she was one of the first so-called American heiresses to marry into the British aristocracy, but her story doesn’t end there.”
Author: Katherine Linn Caire
Book: Accidental Sisters: The Story of My 52-Year Wait to Meet My Biological Sibling
Author quote: “I had to do A LOT of research, something I wasn’t really anticipating when penning a memoir. It was very important to me to put several events into historical perspective, which took much attention to detail.”
Author: Michael Goldberg
Book: Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey
Author quote: “He was one of the great guitar players, had been in one of the best punk bands, the Avengers, in the late ‘70s, and was the reason Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” had the chance to become a hit. He deserved to be remembered.”
Author: Alec Nevala-Lee
Book: Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Author quote: “At this point, most of us have started to realize that becoming a figure like Fuller—or Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk—is impossible without some kind of personal cost.”
Author: Nadine Matheson
Book: The Binding Room
Author quote: “On a practical level, my work as a criminal defence attorney has prepared me firstly, for writing to a deadline, but also the planning of a novel.”
Author: Kate Khavari
Book: A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons
Author quote: “Fortunately, University College London has a lot of historical information available, and their records department was really kind and gave me some documents that were really useful.”
Author: Susan Coll
Book: Bookish People
Author quote: “The book is a love letter to independent bookstores and to booksellers, especially. They build community in countless different ways. (Support your local indie!)”
Author: Thomas Kendall
Book: The Autodidacts
Author quote: “Support independent presses. That and it took me years to find a publisher and so to anyone reading this who is writing and being discouraged by the lack of support…don’t give up.”
Author: Jillian Medoff
Book: When We Were Bright and Beautiful
Author quote: “WWWBAB was a hard novel to write. People are already having strong reactions, which is gratifying because it means they’re thinking about it.”