Q&A with Jeanne Walker Harvey

 

 

 

Jeanne Walker Harvey is the author of the new children's picture book biography Else B. in the Sea: The Woman Who Painted the Wonders of the Deep. It focuses on the life of artist Else Bostelmann. Harvey's other books include Ablaze with Color. She lives in Sonoma, California.

 

Q: What inspired you to write a children’s picture book biography of artist Else Bostelmann (1882-1961)?

 

A: I’m always looking for inspiring, interesting creative people to be the focus for my picture book biographies.

 

When I came across an article in Oceanography by the amazing scientist and oceanographer Dr. Edith Widder about the artist Else Bostelmann and her contribution to the 1930s deep sea expeditions by William Beebe in a bathysphere off the coast of Bermuda, I knew I wanted to write about her.

 

I love sharing stories about people that we may not know about, but who have contributed to major discoveries.

 

Else’s beautiful detailed paintings of previously unknown deep-sea bioluminescent creatures published in National Geographic allowed people in the Great Depression to experience a whole new and exciting world.

 

No one knew then what living creatures might exist in the deep sea, much like how we’ve looked up to space and wondered what might exist up there.

 

Her story is such a great example of art and science working together to enrich our understanding of the world – a STEAM story!

 

Q: How did you research her life, and what did you learn that especially surprised you?

 

A: When I write pictures of biographies, I always like to find primary sources. With the help of the research librarians at the Library of Congress, I was able to read articles written by Else Bostelmann describing her Bermuda adventures.

 

Also, The Drawing Center in New York published a detailed book accompanying an exhibit of drawings (including Else Bostelmann’s painting) from the Department of Tropical Research which sponsored the Bermuda expedition.

It was incredible to read about Else donning a heavy copper helmet with just a tube connected to a boat above her to provide air so that she could descend for her first time into the ocean.

 

Her bravery surprised me -- not only because scuba diving hadn’t been invented yet, but also because she was almost 50 years old when she undertook this adventure. And once she had descended into the ocean, which she described as a fairy land, she chose to paint what she saw.

 

This first-hand experience helped her understand the color spectrum and how certain colors, such as red, fade away and turn to grey in the deeper depths.

 

Q: What do you think Melodie Stacey’s illustrations add to the book?

 

A: Oh my! I can’t tell you how absolutely thrilled I am by Melodie’s incredible illustrations. She truly has captured the sense not only of Else’s experience of entering an underwater fairy land, but also of the otherworldliness of the deep dark sea and its eerie fantastical creatures seen from the window of the bathysphere.

 

Like Else Bostelmann, Melodie is a fine artist and created the illustrations with gouache, watercolor, pastels, and colored pencils. I just love studying each spread and relishing the details she’s included which add to the historical accuracy of the book.

 

Q: What do you see as Else Bostelmann’s legacy today, and what do you hope kids take away from the book? 

 

A: Else’s incredible paintings allowed millions of people who read National Geographic Magazine in the 1930s to experience a new world, the deep sea, and appreciate the possibilities of discoveries.

 

Else’s experiences show how one person can make a difference, and every person’s contribution is important behind a major discovery.

 

I hope Else B. in the Sea inspires children to want to learn more about our marvelous oceans and creatures, so much of which is still unknown, and then seek to care for and protect the oceans.

 

Q: What are you working on now?

 

A: I’m excited to share that I’ve been working on final edits of another picture book biography about a creative and inspiring person titled The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and the Architect I. M. Pei. 

 

The Glass Pyramid will be published in the Summer of 2025 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon and Schuster and illustrated by the incredibly talented Khoa Le.

 

Q: Anything else we should know?  

 

A: When one of my sons was young, he had a favorite book describing everything about strange sea creatures. He asked me to read it so many times at bedtime that it started falling apart.

 

Of course, it was such fun to share with him, many years later, the page in Else B. in the Sea that Melodie Stacey illustrated with all the eerie bioluminescent strange sea creatures and their whimsical names – – still right up his alley!

 

--Interview with Deborah Kalb. Here's a previous Q&A with Jeanne Walker Harvey. This post was created in partnership with Jeanne Walker Harvey. Enter this giveaway for a chance to win a copy of Else B. in the Sea: The Woman Who Painted the Wonders of the Deep. Prizes include a class set of 30 books, a Bostelmann painting on a notebook and bookbag, stickers, and signed/customized bookplates.

Q&A with Aaron Arsenault

 

 

Aaron Arsenault is the author of the new middle grade novel The Academy, the first in his Climate Diaries series. He worked in the climate-tech industry, and he lives in Oakville, Ontario.

 

Q: What inspired you to write The Academy, and how did you create your cast of characters?

 

A: I was looking for something to read to my own kids about climate change that was inspiring, and I couldn’t find anything! What little there was in the genre seemed to be so negative and dystopian. I wanted to find something for them with a hopeful voice. So, I set out to do something about it and wrote my own!

 

The characters are a collage.  I wanted each to be unique in their own way, diverse, and quite different from one another. Since they come from such different backgrounds it makes not only for interesting dramatic tension, but it also means that just about any kid will see a bit of themselves in at least one or more of the characters.

 

I wanted them to be super relatable. Jax is an unusually bright, but typically mischievous California surfer kid born of middle-class parents. Grace comes from a strict home - her parents are high-profile type A people and are recently divorced. August is a very studious kid and the son of a single mom, and Kylie maybe a bit spoiled, but she’s a total free spirit and very affable.

 

Since I created them, I suppose I see a bit of myself in each kid, too, but they’re more heavily inspired by the people in my life. My illustrator Adrienn Harto did a fantastic job of implanting my early character designs into illustrations that really brought them to life. After spending the last five years with them, they almost feel real to me!

 

Q: Did you know how the novel would end before you started writing it, or did you make many changes along the way?

 

A: Yes and no. I did a pretty thorough outline prior to writing it so I could layout the three-act structure and decide where the major plot points would be. That helped a lot. That said, as I began writing, a lot of things came in from out of the woodwork.

 

Ultimately, what I didn’t have very good control of was the length. I ended up having to rework my ending to keep it around 300 pages and MG friendly. The benefit to that was that it allowed me to leave book one on a bit of a cliffhanger and gave me a great headstart on book two!

 

Q: Why did you decide to write for kids?

 

A: Because I think our kids could greatly benefit from more inspiration as it relates to climate change. Our kids are constantly bombarded with bad news about climate events. "Climate anxiety" is now a very real and growing phenomenon among young people. The statistics are actually quite staggering.

 

I want to change that. I figured by targeting kids at MG age when they are most impressionable and forming values that it would be the best time to help them reshape a more empowering set of beliefs related to climate change.

 

We want the next generation filled with hope and inspiration… They’ll be inheriting the planet soon!

 

Q: What do you hope kids take away from the story?

 

A: That climate change is something we’re managing, and eventually, will overcome. There is much being done now to address it, and many more great innovations just around the corner that have the power to truly reshape society.

 

With the series, I want to take kids on that journey and Book One is the first step. One day our kids will call the shots! As parents, the more we can incline them toward an empowered set of beliefs the more they will move beyond climate anxiety and start dreaming about a brighter future. 

 

It’s sad to think that our kids are growing up with less hope than we did. We absolutely must do something about it!

 

Q: This is the first in a series--what's next?

 

A: Several more books, I hope! I haven’t decided how many there will be, yet. I do have a book-to-book arc shaping up with respect to Powell Aitkins, the missing climatologist that I’ll need to get more definitive about sooner than later. 

 

Before I drill down on book two, I will probably need to sit down and design a major arc for the whole series. At that point I’ll know! There will definitely be a second one, that I know for sure!

 

I’ve got many more climate /environment related topics in my mind to explore so hopefully readers enjoy this one and I’ll get to write many more! I even have an idea for a spinoff YA series in the more distant future for one of the supporting characters! 😉

 

Q: Anything else we should know?

 

A: As I get older, I’ve gotten to know myself. As a writer, and as a person. Given that this is my debut novel, I wasn’t sure that I had it in me. I’ve dabbled as a writer over the years, took it in school and have been told it was an area I did well at, but I never would have imagined writing this novel even six or seven years ago. It’s crazy where life takes you!

 

My children are my biggest inspiration in everything I do. I tend to be a big thinker and over the years I’ve had a lot of ideas that were frankly harebrained that didn’t work out - but when I stumbled across this one, I just knew it was a story I had to get out there. It was a compulsion that I can’t really explain.

 

Now that it’s “done” there has been a temporary sense of relief, but there are many more mountains to climb with this series. As a writer you’d better love what you’re writing about, particularly if it’s going to be a series… The writing part is only the beginning!

 

--Interview with Deborah Kalb

Q&A with Marisa Kanter

 

Photo by Sam Cheung

 

 

Marisa Kanter is the author of the new young adult novel Finally Fitz. Her other YA novels include As If on Cue. She lives in Los Angeles.

 

Q: What inspired you to write Finally Fitz, and how did you create your character Ava “Fitz” Fitzgerald?

 

A: So! Fitz actually makes her first appearance as a secondary character in my sophomore novel, As If on Cue, as one of the protagonist’s best friends. In Cue, Fitz is confident and self-assured and pretty much exists for comic relief.

 

As a reader, I’ve always been drawn to the “best friend who has it all together” characters and curious about their internal lives. I wrote Finally Fitz as an exploration of a fan-favorite secondary character who isn’t as put together as they come across through someone else’s eyes.

 

As If on Cue ends with Fitz getting into a summer fashion program in New York, which felt like a perfect lead-in to pick up her story. New York itself provided a ton of inspiration as well. I lived there for six super formative years and my heart is still very much in that city.

 

Q: In the book's acknowledgments, you write, “I started writing Finally Fitz during a moment in time when my mental health was at the lowest it had ever been.” Can you say more about the impact mental health--both yours and your character's--had on the novel?

 

A: Sure, yeah. As it turns out, it’s extremely difficult to write a book while you’re depressed. Who knew! I’ve always been anxious, but the depression that crept in while working on this book was new to me and honestly pretty scary. At first as much as I wanted to write, I couldn’t and then I just . . . didn’t want to write at all.

 

I started therapy while writing this book and I truly believe that I couldn’t have written Fitz’s journey with her mental health without first reckoning with and seeking treatment for my own mental health. I’m quite proud of both of us.

Q: Did you know how the novel would end before you started writing it, or did you make many changes along the way?

 

A: I knew how the book would end in the sense that it’s a romcom and therefore would end in an HEA (happily ever after) . . . but as to how Fitz would get her HEA? That evolved from draft to draft.

 

Act 3 tends to come together fairly late in the process for me, but once I finally got Fitz’s ending on the page it just felt right. After an arduous drafting process, the final scene might be the one that I’m the most proud of.

 

Q: What do you hope readers take away from the story?

 

A: Stop being so hard on yourself. As a teen, I put so much pressure on myself. Applied the word perfectionist to myself like a badge of honor. Didn’t understand the difference between being ambitious and having unreasonable expectations. Believed the worst thing I could do was fail.

 

Unlearning perfectionism, reckoning with the truth that it is so often a symptom of anxiety, has been an ongoing process.

 

If this resonates with any readers, I hope that Fitz’s story gives them permission to be nicer to themselves, to reassess their relationship with the word perfectionist, to seek help. And if you see Fitz maybe not in yourself, but in someone you know, check in on them.

 

Q: What are you working on now?

 

A: Currently working on my next novel that I cannot wait to share more about!

 

Q: Anything else we should know?

 

A: When I’m not writing I can be found watching reality television or crocheting (often simultaneously!).

 

--Interview with Deborah Kalb

Q&A with Tina Gabrielle

 

 

 

Tina Gabrielle is the author of the new novel Make Mine a Marquess. Her other novels include How Not to Marry a Duke. Also an attorney and mechanical engineer, she lives in New Jersey.

 

Q: What inspired you to write Make Mine a Marquess, and how did you create your characters Phoebe and Robert?

 

A: I loved writing Phoebe and Robert! Make Mine a Marquess is an enemies to lovers romance. It’s also the third book in my Daring Ladies series, although all my books are standalone reads. What makes the series special is the diversity in the books.

 

The heroines in the first two books, One Night with an Earl and How Not to Marry a Duke, are half Mediterranean and half English. In a twist, the heroine in Make Mine a Marquess is half English and half diverse.

 

Robert, the Marquess of Landon, is thought to be lost at sea. When he returns five years later, he seeks revenge by setting his sights on Phoebe, his enemy’s betrothed. But Phoebe is spirited and intelligent and not what he expects…

 

As for myself, I’m a first generation Armenian American. My parents owned a restaurant for 30 years in South Jersey and I grew up in the business. Food plays a large role in my culture.

 

My historical romances are unique because each includes Mediterranean recipes from my family’s restaurant in the back of the books. Think of shish kebab, hummus and tabouleh. Yum!

Q: Did you need to do any research to write the novel, and if so, did you learn anything that especially surprised you?

 

A: I have file cabinets dedicated to research! I write Regency period romance. I’ve been to London, but not in the 1800s! I’m also an attorney and I could research all day long. It’s a challenge to stop researching and start writing.

 

As for the Mediterranean aspect of my characters, I used my own background and family recipes. The best kind of “research!”

 

Q: How does this book relate to the others in the Daring Ladies series?

 

A: All my books are standalone novels but they feature glittering ballrooms as well as the less rich parts of the city where diverse members of London gathered and lived. The contrast is fascinating and historically accurate.

 

I was thrilled when How Not to Marry a Duke received fabulous reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. It was also a double winner in the prestigious NJ Romance Writers Golden Leaf award for best historical and best book by a NJ author.

 

Even more than thrilling at the reviews, I was happy readers liked the series. I hope they enjoy the upcoming Make Mine a Marquess as well.

 

Q: What do you hope readers take away from the novel?

 

A: First, I hope they love romance. Second, I hope they enjoy the cultural aspect and the recipes.

 

Q: What are you working on now?

 

A: I’m hard at work on another Regency historical romance. Details to come soon!

 

Q: Anything else we should know?

 

A: First, thank you for featuring me. Another interesting tidbit is that I also write cozy mysteries as Tina Kashian. Hummus and Homicide is the first book in my bestselling Kebab Kitchen series.

 

Readers can connect with me in my newsletter where I share upcoming releases, run contests to win romance books, and post recipes.

 

--Interview with Deborah Kalb

April 22

 

 

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
April 22, 1873: Ellen Glasgow born.

Q&A with Ann Callaghan Allen

 

 

 

Ann Callaghan Allen is the author of the new book Holocaust Refugees in Oswego: From Nazi Europe to Lake Ontario. She also has written the book The Madame's Business. She retired from teaching at Le Moyne College's Department of Communications and Film Studies in Syracuse, New York.

 

Q: What inspired you to write Holocaust Refugees in Oswego?

 

A: It started about a year ago with a Facebook post, of all things! My husband was on the board of the local Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum at the time.

 

He was hoping to get more people from Oswego and Central New York to learn about the museum, to visit, and to learn about the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter, which was the only shelter established in the US during World War II for victims of Nazi oppression.

 

While much had been written about the refugees who lived at the Fort, not as much was known about the people who lived in the area at that time who interacted with the refugees. I suggested this might be a new focus for the museum to draw visitors.

 

Then a few weeks later I saw a Facebook post from a man named Ron Spereno whose father, Joe, apprenticed with one of the refugees, a man named Jake Sylber. Ron’s father learned the tailoring business from him, and eventually bought Sylber’s tailor shop and operated it for more than 20 years in downtown Oswego.

 

I said to my husband, see, I told you so. (I love to do that;) There are probably more stories like this still to be told.

 

Then I took it one step further. I found a story in the local Palladium-Times from the mid-1950s telling Jake Sylber’s story. He was a tailor in Paris when war broke out; joined the French army; ended up at the battle of Dunkirk; captured by the Germans and put on a train to certain death in a Nazi concentration camp; jumped from a window of that train; made his way back to Paris; joined the resistance fighters; finally made his way with his family to Italy where they were selected to come to the emergency refugee shelter at Fort Ontario.

 

I said to myself after reading this story, wow, I wonder what Joe Spereno, Sylber’s Oswego apprentice who eventually bought the tailor shop, was doing during that time. I got in touch with Joe Spereno’s son, Ron, to find out.

 

The story of how these two young men, separated by geography, religion, language, culture, and experience, would ultimately cross paths in a most unlikely place because of the war, launched me on the path to write the book.  

 

Q: How did you research the book, and what did you learn that especially surprised you?

 

A: Once I had this idea of individual paths crossing, people who, except for the extraordinary circumstances of the War, would never have gotten to know each other, I looked for other stories linking the Oswegonians and the refugees.

 

I was able to speak with six people, now all in their 90s, who were teenagers at the time and who shared great stories with me. They were very special resources.

 

In 1994, the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the refugees in Oswego, a number of video interviews were done with the refugees and the Oswegonians who experienced this event. They are digitally preserved at Oswego State University, and those were key to literally giving voice to the story.

 

Newspaper accounts from that time that are digitally preserved and primary source materials from the Emergency Refugee Shelter held by Fort Ontario, the Oswego County Historical Society, and the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum were very helpful as well. 

 

What surprised me was the level of support the community offered to these 982 Holocaust refugees. Oswego is not a perfect community. There is no perfect community. Believe me, I looked for the flaws!

 

In 2001 there was a made for TV film released titled "Haven" about Oswego and the refugee shelter. Besides containing factual inaccuracies, it portrayed Oswego people as mostly anti-Semitic, anti-refugee. This could not have been further from the truth. A great many people, from all parts of Oswego, stepped up to support the refugees.

 

So this is also a setting of the record straight for my hometown. 

 

Q: What do you see as the legacy today of the refugee program in Oswego?

 

A: I began this project while the refugee crisis was raging along our southern border, but I delivered the manuscript before war broke out between Hamas and Israel. The disturbing rise in anti-Semitism since then continues to shock me. 

 

Personal experience is a powerful informant of attitude and for me, the legacy of the refugee program in Oswego is that when those Oswegonians decided to bridge barriers of distrust or fear and get to know the refugees through personal experience, the integration of 982 refugees in a population of about 20,000 worked.

 

The current superintendent of Fort Ontario calls this time in the city's history "Oswego's finest hour" and he is absolutely right.  

 

Q: What impact did it have on you to write this book, and what do you hope readers take away from it?

 

A: When I read or listen to the news today, the refugee crisis, the situation between Israel and Hamas, they seem like such complex and insurmountable problems. How can I, one person, make a difference in such events?

 

The late Walter Greenberg, who was a school-age boy when he arrived at the shelter, reflected on the importance of the Fort Ontario story.

 

He said, “I think it’s important to study what happened, not because of us 982 refugees, but more important, historically, what happened to a country and more specifically to a world which I [believe engaged in] ‘world amnesia.’ I think so much was overlooked conveniently by good people. The bad guys are easy to identify. The question is, what could the good guys have done to make it a little bit easier...for more people to survive?” 

 

The lesson I take from this book is that if I think first about the humanity that binds us all, I can at least make a difference in the life of one other person. And that person can make a difference in my life. And that’s not just a lesson for me or for Oswego or for Central New York. It’s a lesson for the world.   

 

Q: What are you working on now?

 

A: Right now I am keeping very busy doing book events, something I know you can appreciate! I really enjoy that part of the process because I meet so many interesting people I wouldn't otherwise get to know.

 

I hope to get this story out beyond upstate New York because I think there are lessons applicable in it for so many other communities struggling with the refugee issue today. I am certainly willing to travel far and wide to do this! 

 

Q: Anything else we should know?

 

A: Yes, and this gives me the opportunity to pitch buying the book! The book is available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and also from independent bookstores.

 

My personal favorite is Oswego's Riversend Bookstore (www.riversendbookstore.com) and they will ship the book just like the big retailers. The publisher is The History Press and they have copies available as well. 

 

--Interview with Deborah Kalb. Here's a previous Q&A with Ann Callaghan Allen.

Q&A with Heather Murphy Capps

 

 

 

Heather Murphy Capps is the author of the middle grade novel Indigo and Ida. It focuses on the journalist and activist Ida B. Wells. Capps is also a journalist and educator. She lives in Virginia. 

 

Q: What inspired you to write Indigo and Ida, and how did you create your character Indigo?

 

A: Indigo and Ida was born from the lyrics of one of my very favorite songs: “Galileo,” by the Indigo Girls. I had always wanted to write a book that started with those first stirring lines: “Galileo’s head was on the block … his crime was looking up the truth…”

 

In earlier versions of the book, those lyrics were what Indigo was spray painting on the sidewalk, but I wasn’t able to get permission to reprint them, which is why the version that published used lines from Winnie the Pooh—which is now in the public domain.

 

My goal was to write about the courage it takes to use your voice and speak your truth.

 

I also wanted to write about changing friendships and friendship loss—a sad truth that we all know happens throughout life for various reasons. Middle school is when those kinds of shifts get real, and I wanted to explore that.

 

Finally, I knew I wanted to write from the perspective of a biracial girl growing up in Minnesota—which is my lived experience.  I named my character Indigo after the song that starts her story.

 

Q: How did you research the novel, and did you learn anything that especially surprised you?

 

A: I read primary sources deeply – Wells’s autobiography, Crusade for Justice, as well as her Memphis diary, as much of her newspaper reporting as I could access, and her two seminal investigative pamphlets on lynching: “Red Report” and “Southern Horrors.”

 

My biggest surprise about her life is something I learned before I dug into my research: her experience at the Woman’s (sic) Suffrage Parade of 1913.

 

Wells was instrumental in publicizing and drawing participation from Black women in the parade—but when the actual day came for the women to march, Alice Paul (the primary organizer, who was white) asked Wells and the other Black women to march in the back of the parade.

 

I was really struck by the layers of pain I imagine Wells must have felt when she realized Paul didn’t have the courage to value their friendship or acknowledge the truth that the fight for women’s rights should have extended to ALL women.

 

Another notable moment in my research wasn’t so much a surprise as it was a sad confirmation of my observation that at a fundamental level, we are still wrestling with the same prejudices today that Wells faced more than a hundred years ago: racism and sexism.

 

Our 21st century debates express themselves in modern contexts, but the mistrust and blatant discrimination are the same; we just don’t seem to be able to move on.

Q: What do you see as Ida B. Wells’ legacy today?

 

A: She lit the way for Black women to be taken seriously as investigative reporters and effective social justice activists—not that it’s been easy, but she was brave enough to be among the first, and we all stand on her shoulders.

 

Another thing I admire about Wells is that she was truly an independent thinker and was never one to “go along to get along.” She spoke her truth even if it wasn’t what other thought leaders were saying at the time—she truly trusted her own research and her own instinct. I love that standard and example she set for all of us today.

 

Q: The Kirkus Review of the novel called it a “satisfying story that demonstrates how the past can shed light on the present.” What do you think of that description?

 

A: I was absolutely thrilled when I read that review and so grateful that Indigo’s and Ida’s story was so thoroughly understood.

 

Yes—Ida’s story is incredibly important not just because of her legacy of investigative reporting and social activism but also because as I mentioned earlier, the issues she was writing about in the late 19th century and early 20th century are so sadly similar to those that play out every day our world today.

 

We are still living in a time when Black men get accused of crimes and violence simply because they are Black. We are still living in a time when Black people are held to a different standard and are too often (incorrectly) presumed guilty, less competent, less deserving of dignity and respect.

 

If nothing else, I hope that the more of us that see those ties are moved to be changemakers. If we want to end the awful endless loop of the kinds of painful moments of the past, the ones Wells and others recorded for us, we must do something different. And of course, in her words, we must continue to “shine a light on the truth.”

 

Q: What are you working on now?

 

A: My sophomore novel, The Rule of Three, releases this August—I am very excited about that! The Rule of Three is also an Upper MG novel, about a baseball player named Wyatt.

 

Biracial Wyatt just wants to play baseball and survive middle school, but he’s battling near constant thinly veiled racial insults from the mostly white students in his school, and his best friend doesn’t have the courage to defend him.

 

Then he suddenly develops the ability to create smoke around him as a response to stress—a trait he shares with his father—and discovers that his newfound ability is connected to a painful family history.

 

At first, isolated and angry, he goes vigilante and uses his smoke to scare off bullies and protect people like him who get taunted. But eventually he realizes he and his father both need to heal.

 

This story of baseball, family, and friendship is special to me, and I hope others will love Wyatt as much as I do.

 

Q: Anything else we should know?

 

A: I love talking about reading and writing and books—and I am always open to speaking at schools, libraries, book festivals, conferences, you name it!  Feel free to visit my website: https://heathermurphycapps.com, and let’s plan a visit!

 

Also: if you have read my book, I invite you to leave a review on Amazon. Reviews there go a long way toward helping authors make their books visible. It doesn’t even have to be a long review – just a sentence or two. This goes for all authors—we always encourage our readers to leave those all-important reviews.

 

And thank you in advance, and thanks for this fun interview, Deborah! I enjoyed it, and I’m so grateful to share some time with someone who loves books.

 

--Interview with Deborah Kalb