In This Issue...
- Recent Releases
- Women's Fiction: with Historical Elements Reads
- Hear Us Roar! Debut Author Podcasts
Read ON!
Welcome to WFWA's reader-focused newsletter, Read ON!
Check your inbox on the last Wednesday of every month for new women's fiction books that you'll want to read!
Check out our series of author-interview podcasts!
Quick links to past episodes:
Sherri Leimkuhler (What's Left Untold)
Elizabeth Gauffreau (Telling Sonny)
Kelly Duran (Can't Take It Back)
Jae Hodges (The Rose and the Whip)
Jamie Beck (If You Must Know)
Sharina Harris (Im)perfectly Happy
Kathleen West (Minor Dramas and Other Catastrophes)
Alison Hammer (You and Me and Us)
Sally Suen (Crystal Cove)
Diane Byington (If She Had Stayed)
Donna Koros Stramella (Coffee Killed My Mother)
Rebecca Hodge (Wildland)
Barbara Linn Probst (Queen of the Owls)
Joanne Kukanza Easley (Sweet Jane)
Linda Rosen (The Disharmony of Silence)
Michelle Davis (Learning to Bend)
Kimmery Martin (The Queen of Hearts)
Heather Frimmer (Bedside Manners)
Marianne Hansen (The Unscripted Life of Lizzy Dillinger)
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Find Great Books on Goodreads
Did you know all of the women’s fiction books by WFWA members are on a Goodreads shelf? You can find them here.
Recent Releases
We now have a special Monthly Highlights shelf on Goodreads, where you can get full information on the books listed below. Thanks for reading, reviewing, and sharing with your friends!
What's Not Said
by Valerie Taylor
When a middle-aged woman learns her husband is chronically ill, her divorce plans collapse. That is, until she pokes around his pajama drawer and discovers his illness is the least of his deceits. As she struggles to justify her own indiscretions, their secrets collide head-on, revealing a tangled web of sex, lies, and DNA, forcing her to decide whose life to save—her husband’s or her own.
For more information, please visit Valerie's website.
Dragonflies at Night
by Anne Marie Bennett
At the heart of Dragonflies at Night is a tender, bright, romantic love story, and woven through it is the fact that those who leave this world for the next one are never really gone. The dragonfly is a symbol of the long-lasting connection between the main character, Savannah, and her mother who died when she was a teenager.
For more information, please visit Anne Marie's website.
 Truth of the Matterby Jamie Beck
Following her divorce, Anne Sullivan moves with her troubled daughter, Katy, to Potomac Point. When renovating her grandparents’ old house, she discovers a vintage recipe box containing hints about her beloved grandmother’s hidden past. She’s drawn into exploring the clues despite dealing with Gram’s dementia and Katy’s alarming anxieties. Uncovered secrets shatter past beliefs and help each woman begin to live her best life.
For more information, please visit Jamie's website.
A Borrowed Life
by Kerry Anne King
When her controlling husband dies suddenly, a repressed woman dares to explore a wider life and a new love despite the efforts of her daughter to hold her back. “Earthy, unpredictable, and wildly enjoyable.” —Barbara O’Neal, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids
For more information, please visit Kerry Anne's website.
Women's Fiction: Autumn Settings
Pumpkin Spice? Tea? Coffee? Grab your favorite hot cup, watch the leaves fall, and curl up with a seasonal read.
Mixed Signals
by Diane Barnes
The Process of Fraying
by Jess Neal Woods
Hurricane Season
by Lauren K. Denton
All the Difference
by Kaira Rouda
The Talking Tree
by Judith Keim
Where We Fall
by Rochelle B Weinstein
The Secret Ingredient of Wishes
by Susan Bishop Crispell
This I Know
by Eldonna Edwards
Heavy Weather
by Normandie Fischer
Charleston Green
by Stephanie Alexander
Hear Us Roar! Debut Author Podcast
Lisa Braxton is the recipient of a 2020 Outstanding Literary Award from the National Association of Black Journalists for her debut novel, The Talking Drum. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Vermont Literary Review, Black Lives Have Always Mattered, Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Book of Hope.
She is a fellow of Kimbilio, a fellowship for fiction writers of the African diaspora, and an Emmy-nominated former television journalist. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Media from Hampton University, her Master of Science degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University and is a former newspaper and television journalist.
Listen to the interview with Lisa.
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