P.C. ZICK

May 7, 2014

Author Wednesday – Therin Knite

Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome science fiction/mystery writer, Therin Knite. Therin is a college student, whose first novel Echoes was published this year. Welcome, Therin. It’s exciting to have such an accomplished college student as a guest today. It makes me wonder when you first discovered your voice as a writer. Age…

May 2, 2014

Book Review Friday – Savannah’s Bluebird

Lori Crane has done it again. She’s written another southern historical novel with unforgettable characters. Savannah’s Bluebird is set in the years after the stock market crash in 1929 in Biloxi. The delightful story of the bluebird and its relation to true love stands at the center of this charming and magical tale of the…

April 30, 2014

Author Wednesday – Lori Crane

Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome Lori Crane, the author of several books of historical southern fiction. Lori visited Author Wednesday last year and I reviewed her novel, Elly Hays for Book Review Friday. I’m so happy she returned today to tell us a bit about her new release, Savannah’s Bluebird. Welcome, dear friend.…

April 25, 2014

Book Review Friday – Anne Rivers Siddons

“Trails in the Sand is Southern drama on the scale of Anne Rivers Siddons, where family secrets lie as deep as a mangrove swamp, skeletons molder in the woodwork, and the honeyed smiles of Southern belles mask seething resentment. -Clare Chu, Amazon top 100 reviewer” When I received this review for my novel, I beamed…

April 23, 2014

Author Wednesday – Marisella Veiga

Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today, I welcome a dear friend. Marisella Veiga and I met in 2005 at a luncheon for networking women. There was only one spot left in the large room when I arrived. I sat down to a beautiful, dark-haired woman with a welcoming smile. “I’m Marisella Veiga, and I’m a writer,”…

April 19, 2014

Real Life Seeps into #Fiction

I’m often asked if real life seeps into my novels. As we head into the anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, I’ve thought about how much of my life seeped into the writing of Trails in the Sand. During April 2010, two significant manmade disasters occurred in the United States. Both…

April 18, 2014

Book Review Friday – The Aviator’s Wife

Last week, I reviewed Underground Angel by Dr. Sheryl White, which is an historical novel about the very real and heroic figure Laura Smith Haviland. I recently read another historical novel about a real person, which again brought someone who seemed fictional into focus as an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances. The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie…

April 16, 2014

Author Wednesday – Albert Isaac

Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome author Albert Isaac who writes science fiction as well as humorous essays on life. His novels are Endless and its follow-up Utopia Revisited, which he recently published. In this novel, Astronaut Kyle Lucas Metheny becomes an unlikely savior when his experimental flight goes terribly wrong. He awakes in…

April 11, 2014

Book Review Friday – Underground Angel

Underground Angel by Sheryl D. White, Ph.D., touched my heart so many ways that I’m finding it difficult to begin this review. Dr. White deftly takes the historical figure, Laura Smith Haviland, and lovingly creates a novel depicting the life and times of a woman noted for her unwavering dedication to the abolition of slavery.…

April 9, 2014

Author Wednesday – Sheryl White

Welcome to Author Wednesday. It is with great pleasure that I introduce today’s author, Sheryl White. The subject of her work of historical fiction, Underground Angel, is close to my heart. Dr. White writes about the very real Laura Haviland who worked tirelessly in the 1800s for abolition, suffrage for women, and education for all…