The Story Craft Cafe Podcast

Today’s author interview guest is Ashley Farley, author of Only One Life. A reunion between an estranged mother and daughter opens a world of secrets in a poignant novel by the bestselling author of Magnolia Nights. Julia Martin grew up wealthy, […]

Today’s author interview guest is Kelsey Rae Dimberg, author of Girl in the Rearview Mirror. “With hairpin twists and immense psychological acuity, Kelsey Rae Dimberg’s Girl in the Rearview Mirror is as seductive as the glamorous, privileged family at its center—and as […]

Today’s author interview guests are Margaret Murphy and Helen Pepper, the writing duo knows as Ashley Dyer. Their new book The Cutting Room is out now. Detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver, introduced in the electrifying Splinter in the Blood, […]

Today’s author interview guest is Diana Altman, author of We Never Told. It’s the 1950s and the Hollywood lifestyle is at its height. Sonya’s mother is the epitome of her time. Violet is glamorous and beautiful. She puts on a […]

Today’s author interview guest is Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown (The American Revolution Series). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to […]

Today’s author interview guest is Stewart O’Nan, author of Henry, Himself. A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new […]

Today’s author interview guest is Mike Maden, author of the new Tom Clancy Jack Ryan Jr. thriller Enemy Contact. Jack Ryan, Jr.’s race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend in this […]

Today’s author interview guest is Jane Green, author of The Friends We Keep. As seen on The Today Show! The Friends We Keep is the heartwarming and unforgettable new novel from Jane Green, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sunshine Sisters and The Beach House.  […]

Today my author interview guest is Herve Tullet, children’s author and creator of the new book I Have An Idea. From one of the true creative geniuses of this generation comes a unique meditation on and celebration of the magic […]

Today’s author interview guest is Holly Peterson, author of It’s Hot In The Hamptons. From the author of the summer hit It Happens in The Hamptons comes an unforgettable new novel about the women who live and love in the Hamptons. In […]

Today’s author interview guest is W. M. Akers, author of the new book Westside. “Bracing, quite possibly hallucination-inducing, and unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before…The illegitimate love child of Algernon Blackwood and Raymond Chandler.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The Alienist meets The City […]

Today’s author interview guest is Rachel Renee Russell, author of The Dork Diaries and the Misadventures of Max Crumbly. From #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries author Rachel Renée Russell comes the third book in a series about Max Crumbly and […]

Today’s author interview guest is Lauren Willig, author of The Summer Country. A brilliant, multi-generational saga in the tradition of THE THORN BIRDS and NORTH AND SOUTH, New York Times bestselling historical novelist Lauren Willig delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious […]

Today’s author interview guest is Amy Mason Doan, returning to talk about her new book Summer Hours. Commencement meets The Graduate in this sparkling novel about a secret affair, the summer it all unravels, and the reunion a decade later that will be […]

Today’s author interview guest is Helen Cullen, author of The Lost Letters of William Woolf. “Enchanting, intriguing, deeply moving. The Lost Letters of William Woolf concerns itself as much with lost love as it does with lost letters.” —Irish Times *** Lost […]