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Category Archives: Your Next Beach Read

Your Next Beach Read: Ellen Greenfield, author of “White Roses”

14 Friday Jun 2019

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More from Erik Decker’s Your Next Beach Read Blog.

Your Next Beach Read

In Your Next Beach Read, we want to introduce you to a new author every day in June in the hopes that you’ll find the next book you want to take with you to the beach, the pool, or the comforts of air conditioning.

Today’s author is Ellen Greenfield, author of White Roses.

What’s your name and where are you from?

Ellen Greenfield – born and raised in Brooklyn

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

14 - Ellen Greenfield author photoI started writing almost as soon as I could put letters and words together. I can actually recite for you (but you’ll be grateful that I won’t) the poem I wrote, called “A Dreamer’s World” that won my sixth-grade literary contest. First prize: A book on creating origami, complete with beautifully printed papers. I can still fold a mean crane!

Who are some of your influences?

I would say one…

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Your Next Beach Read: Tamara J. Madison, author of “Threed, This Road Not Damascus”

13 Thursday Jun 2019

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Here’s more from Erik Decker’s “Your Next Beach Read.”

Your Next Beach Read

In Your Next Beach Read, we want to introduce you to a new author every day in June in the hopes that you’ll find the next book you want to take with you to the beach, the pool, or the comforts of air conditioning.

Today’s author is Tamara J. Madison, author of Threed, This Road Not Damascus.

What’s your name (or pen name) and where are you from?

My name is Tamara J. Madison. I was born and raised in southern Indiana (Evansville) with both of my parents being my Kentucky roots. I have lived all over from Indiana to Strasbourg, France to Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Jersey City, and now I reside in Florida.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

13 - Tamara Madison - Headshot 5As a teenager, I wrote poetry and spoken word for community talent shows. I have long had a love for languages since hearing family members…

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Your Next Beach Read: Kerry Evelyn, author of “Love On The Edge”

08 Saturday Jun 2019

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Your Next Beach Read

In Your Next Beach Read, we want to introduce you to a new author every day in June in the hopes that you’ll find the next book you want to take with you to the beach, the pool, or the comforts of air conditioning.

Today’s author is Kerry Evelyn, author of Love On The Edge.

What’s your name (or pen name) and where are you from?

Kerry Evelyn. I grew up on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts in the college town of Dartmouth. I moved to Orlando 17 years ago to live in the sunshine.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

Kerry EvelynI’ve been writing my whole life. I had work published in high school publications and wrote for the school newspaper and became co-editor-in-chief my junior-senior year. I always thought I would go into journalism, but it was too heart-wrenching for me. I wrote feature articles…

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Your Next Beach Read: Nicole Callihan, author of The Couples

06 Thursday Jun 2019

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Your Next Beach Read

In Your Next Beach Read, we want to introduce you to a new author every day in June in the hopes that you’ll find the next book you want to take with you to the beach, the pool, or the comforts of air conditioning.

Today’s author is Nicole Callihan, author of The Couples.

What’s your name (or pen name) and where are you from?

Nicole Callihan. I was born Hefner, in North Carolina. Moved around a lot growing up. Went to high school and college in Oklahoma. Now, I’m in Brooklyn, New York, where I’ve been since the mid-1990s.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

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I started writing when I was fourteen, then really writing when I was twenty-one, then really, really writing when I was thirty-eight. Now, sometimes, I even revise. I started because I wanted to say all the things on paper that…

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Your Next Beach Read: Rie Anders, author of On Island

04 Tuesday Jun 2019

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Your Next Beach Read

In Your Next Beach Read, we want to introduce you to a new author every day in June in the hopes that you’ll find the next book you want to take with you to the beach, the pool, or the comforts of air conditioning. Today’s author is Rie Anders, author of “On Island.”

Where are you from?

Rie Anders, author of On Island Rie Anders

My name is Rie Anders, and I live in Houston, TX. I am originally from the Pacific Northwest, and I made it to Texas via Honolulu, HI seventeen years ago.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

My first memory of wanting to be a writer was when I was eight years old. My parents had a typewriter, and I set up a little “office” in the dining room where I could work. I proceeded to type out a short story about a rabbit and other forest…

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Your Next Beach Read: Ty Unglebower, author of There Is Pain Here

03 Monday Jun 2019

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Your Next Beach Read

What’s your name (or pen name) and where are you from?

Ty Unglebower. I’ve lived in Maryland my whole life.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

03 - Ty Unglebower author photoI’ve been writing in some fashion since at least high school, but I started fiction writing on a regular basis about ten years ago or so.

Who are some of your influences?

I’m influenced by the reading experience more than a specific author. I can say I’ve read more than one book by folks like Steve Berry and Louis Bayard.

What is your book about?

U.S. President James Garfield is dying from an assassins bullet. On his death bed he is recruited from a sort of afterlife to help retrieve souls of the departed that have been stolen. He accepts this offer as he dies, and the novel tells of his experience there.

Where did you get the idea?

Garfield…

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Your Next Beach Read: Barb Meyers, author of If You Knew

02 Sunday Jun 2019

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Your Next Beach Read

What’s your name (or pen name) and where are you from?

Barbara Meyers. Originally I’m from Missouri, but I now live in Central Florida.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

02 - Barb Meyers author photoI started writing fiction about 30 years ago. I’d been reading a lot of romance novels and after I read a particularly badly written one I threw it against the wall and declared, “I can write better than that.”

Who are some of your influences?

I don’t know if you’d call them influences, but there are certainly writers I admire and wish I wrote as well such as Sandra Brown, Karen Robards, Kathleen Woodiwiss, and C.J. Box, to name a few.

What is your book about?

A former adult film actress from LA, widowed and pregnant, relocates to a small Iowa town and discovers hypocrisy is alive and well in middle America.

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