Most 10-year-old boys spend afternoons riding bikes and playing sports. Me? I sat on the couch snuggled close to my grandmother and watched "The Young and the Restless," a popular TV soap opera. I was obsessed with the fictional Abbott family's cosmetic business and vowed that I would one day own my own company. I even picked a name, VS Vincenzo, my name and initials in Italian, which remains one of my product lines today. Then along came that over-the-top night-time saga, "Dynasty," and the …
January 2021 – Authors of the Month
Connor Judson Garrett is an award-winning poet, novelist, travel writer, copywriter, and Cofounder of Lucid House Publishing, a writer-centric bespoke book publisher. He is currently working on a sequel and a subsequent finale for what will be the trilogy that began with "Spellbound Under The Spanish Moss: A Southern Tale of Magic." Garrett dreams of and is blazing his way towards a career writing in a multitude of genres ranging from fantasy to science fiction, as well as, works in a …
Author of the Month – December 2020
Author Stephanie Chance Stephanie Chance is the owner & creator of Decorate Ornate, a one-of-a-kind store that’s filled from floor to ceiling with fabulous home decor from all over Europe. And, the owner and creator of Decorate Ornate Italy Tours, wherein she takes two groups of Americans to Italy and beyond twice a year. Click Here to Visit Her Website Mamma Mia! Sinners, Saints & Escapades Hop aboard with bestselling author Stephanie Chance and her …
Author of the Month – November 2020
Author Judithe Little Judithe is the author of two novels, The Chanel Sisters, to be released December 29, 2020, and Wickwythe Hall, award-winning historical fiction set during World War II. She grew up in Virginia and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. After studying at the Institute of European Studies and the Institut Catholique in Paris, France, and interning at the U.S. Department of State, she earned a law degree from the University of …
Author of the Month – October 2020
Author Grady Hendrix New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix has written about the confederate flag for Playboy magazine, covered machine gun collector conventions, and scripted award shows for Chinese television. His novels include HORRORSTÖR about a haunted IKEA, MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM, which is basically "Beaches" meets "The Exorcist", WE SOLD OUR SOULS, a heavy metal horror epic, and THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES. He's also the author of PAPERBACKS FROM HELL, …
Author of the Month – September 2020
Author Leila Meacham Leila Meacham is a writer and former teacher who lives in San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of the bestselling novels Roses, Somerset and Tumbleweeds. Dragonfly At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds - a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother …
Author of the Month – August 2020
Author Claire Fullerton Claire Fullerton hails from Memphis, TN. and now lives in Malibu, CA. with her husband and 3 German shepherds. She is the author of Little Tea, the August selection of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club. Claire is the author of 5-time award winning, Mourning Dove; Dancing to an Irish Reel; and A Portal in Time. Her novella, Through an Autumn Window, is included in the book, A Southern Season. Her work has appeared in Celtic Life International, Southern Writers Magazine, The …
Author of the Month – July 2020
Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate Author Judy Christie has had lunch at the White House with First Lady Nancy Reagan; met Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon; and ridden across a Southern city in a hot air balloon. She’s run marathons — 26.2 miles — in Alaska and at Disney World, been chased by a monkey on a city street, fished for piranha on the Amazon, and once got a black eye playing putt-putt at the beach. She’s always up for a good story and a good adventure. And no matter …
Author of the Month – June 2020
Author Cassandra King CASSANDRA KING is an award-winning author of five bestselling novels and two nonfiction books, as well as numerous short stories, essays, and magazine articles. Her latest book, Tell Me A Story (William Morrow 2019), is a memoir about life with her late husband, Pat Conroy. A native of LA (Lower Cassandra King is an award-winning author of 5 bestselling novels and 2 books of non-fiction, as well as numerous articles, essays and short stories. A native of LA (Lower …
Author of the Month – May 2020
Author Barbara Linn Probst BARBARA LINN PROBST is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, living on an historic dirt road in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her debut novel QUEEN OF THE OWLS (April 2020) is the powerful story of a woman’s search for wholeness, framed around the art and life of iconic painter Georgia O’Keeffe. QUEEN OF THE OWLS has been selected as one of the 20 most anticipated books of 2020 by Working Mother and will be the May 2020 selection for the Pulpwood Queens, a network of …
Author of the Month – April 2020
Author Susan Cushman Susan Cushman is author of three books: Friends of the Library (short stories), Cherry Bomb (novel), and Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s (memoir). She is editor of three anthologies: Southern Writers on Writing, A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be, and The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years! Her essays have appeared in four anthologies and numerous journals and magazines. She was co-director of the 2010 and 2013 Creative …
Author of the Month – March 2020
Author Karen Abbott Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of SIN IN THE SECOND CITY, AMERICAN ROSE, and LIAR TEMPTRESS SOLDIER SPY, named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Amazon. She has written for NewYorker.com, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and other publications. Her new book, THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK, is an instant New York Times bestseller, an Edgar Award Finalist for best fact …
Author of the Month – February 2020
Author Julie Kibler Julie Kibler is the bestselling author of Home for Erring and Outcast Girls and Calling Me Home, which was an IndieNext List pick, Target Club Pick, and Ladies’ Home Journal Book Club Pick, published in fifteen languages. She has a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism and a master’s degree in library science and lives with her family, including four rescued dogs and cats, in Texas. Home for Erring and Outcast Girls Synopsis An emotionally raw and …
