In This Issue...
- Recent Releases
- Women's Fiction::Family Dramas/Road Trips
- 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:
Debra Thomas (Luz) __________________________
Sarah Penner (The Lost Apothecary) ___________________________
Jill Caugherty (Waltz in Swing Time) ___________________________
Christina Consolino (Rewrite the Stars) ___________________________
KD Allbaugh (Face Down in Rising Sun) ____________________________
Jeanee Sacken (Behind the Lens) ____________________________
Beatryce Ruby (No Sweeter Touch) ___________________________
Gina WIlkinson (When the Apricots Bloom) ___________________________
Tiffany Meuret (A Flood of Posies) ___________________________
Elizabeth Chatsworth (The Brass Queen) __________________________
Shail Rajan (The Summer Breeze) ___________________________
L. Bordetski-Williams (Forget Russia) ___________________________
Christina Tsirkas (The Night Sender) ____________________________
Judith Teitelman (Guesthouse for Ganesha) ____________________________
Kathy Sechrist (Success is the Best Revenge) ____________________________
Joyce Yarrow (Sandstorm) ____________________________
Denny S. Bryce (Wild Women and the Blues) ____________________________
Kathryn Holzman (Real Estate: A Novel) ____________________________
Melissa Hunter (What She Lost) ____________________________
Florence Reiss Kraut (How to Make a Life) ____________________________
Geeta Schrater (Reaching Riverdale) ____________________________
Densie Webb (When Robins Appear) ____________________________
Bhaswati Ghosh (Victory Colony, 1950) ____________________________
KJ Dell'Antonia (The Chicken Sisters) ___________________________
Rachel Mans McKenny (The Butterfly Effect) ____________________________
Jaye Burke (Venice) ____________________________
Grace Sammon (The Eves)
Madeleine Van Hecke (Once You Know)
Paula Adler (Return to Magnolia Bloom)
Angela Terry (Charming Falls Apart) ____________________________
Katey Schultz (Still Come Home) ____________________________
Sarah McCraw Crow (The Wrong Kind of Woman) ____________________________
Mary Helen Sheriff (Boop and Eve's Road Trip) ____________________________
Regina Buttner (Absolution) ___________________________
Nguyen Phan Que Mai (The Mountains Sing) ___________________________
Ehsaneh Sadr (A Door Between Us) ___________________________
Valerie Taylor (What's Not Said) _________________________
Michele Levy (Anna's Dance) __________________________
Anita Kushwaha (Secret Lives of Mothers and Daughters) ___________________________
Barbara Conrey (Nowhere Near Goodbye) ___________________________
J.L Cole (Silver Heights) ___________________________
Susan Payne (Forever Kind of Woman)
A.H. Kim (A Good Family)
Tricia Zacher (Many a Sudden Change)
Amanda Brainerd (Age of Consent)
Lindsey Cook (How to Bury Your Brother)
Stephanie Newman (Barbarians at the PTA)
Pamela Raliegh (Sandshell Island)
Anju Gattani (Duty and Desire)
Tracey Enerson Wood (The Engineer's Wife) ____________________________
Jaqueline Kang (The Club) ____________________________
Carole Lahines (Someday Everything Will All Make Sense) ____________________________
Diane Barnes (More Than)
William Schreiber (Someone to Watch Over)
Dianne Romain (The Trumpet Lesson)
Lisa Braxton (The Talking Drum)
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)
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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!
The Way We Weren't
by Phoebe Fox
When Marcie Malone faces an unexpected crisis in her marriage, she walks out on everything in her life. In a run-down beach town she forms an unlikely alliance with an angry older man that forces both to face secrets and dark truths from their past—and decide whether to stay lost in the pain of the past or fight for healing and hope with the people they love most. For more information, please visit Phoebe's website.
The Road Remembered
by Kay D. Schmitz
Gerda Ziegler, the wife of a Nazi officer during Hitler's reign, meets Sam Ryan, an American soldier who rescues her from a German concentration camp and helps deliver her baby. But seventy years will pass before they both discover their life-altering connection. Experience their fears and heartaches, joys and triumphs as this story builds to its satisfying conclusion. For more information, please visit Kaye's website.
 Doctors and Friendsby Kimmery Martin
The lives of three doctors—friends since medical school who meet for an annual get together—are thrown upside down when a contagious virus begins to spread across the world in this eerily prescient and timely novel written before the COVID-19 pandemic. Martin's complex characters are infused with such raw emotion that they nearly jump off the page. --NEWSWEEK For more information, please visit Kimmery's website.
 The Cranberry Innby Barbara Josselsohn
When Laurel and her son arrive home for Christmas to help run the family inn, she’s shocked to find the place in disrepair and her father gone. Unsure of what to think, she reaches out to childhood friend Joel. Then she uncovers the reason why her father disappeared – and suspects Joel knew the truth all along. Is there any reason not to run away again? For more information, please visit Barbara's website.
The Secret Next Door
by Rebecca Taylor
Gossip flows, lies are exposed, and accusations are made as cracks run through the community's once solid foundations. The neighborhood's faith in exterior appearances is eclipsed by the secrets every house keeps. And as Bonnie and Alyson fight to keep their children safe and their messy personal lives from becoming neighborhood knowledge, it becomes clear that their neighbors might not be who they appear to be. For more information, please visit Rebecca's website.
 A Day Like Thisby Kelley McNeil
Annie Beyers has everything—a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed. In fact, nothing after waking from the crash is the same as Annie remembers. Five happy years of her life apparently never happened. For more information, please visit Kelley's website.
Women's Fiction: Family Dramas and Road Trips
November is here! In the spirit of holiday gatherings and the most traveled day of the year, enjoy these Women's Fiction titles featuring family and road trips.
The Crittenton Girls
by Joanne Simon Tailele
The Bird House
by Kelley Simmons
The Wilderness Between Us
by Penny Haw
Boop and Eve's Road Trip
by Mary Helen Sheriff
Alligator Lake
by Lynne Bryant
You and Me and Us
by Alison Hammer
A Song for the Road
by Kathleen Basi
A Million Reasons Why
by Jessica Strawser
The Tiger Mom's Tale
by Lyn Liao Butler
Whisper Me This
by Kerry Anne King
Hear Us Roar! Debut Author Podcast
Libby Hubscher is an author and scientist. She studied biology at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and holds a doctor of philosophy in molecular toxicology from North Carolina State University.
Her work has appeared online and in textbooks, scientific journals, and literary journals. Her short story “The Unwelcome Guest” was long-listed for the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2018. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, two young children, and a menagerie of pets.
Listen to the interview with Libby
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