Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine

ANNIE ASKS Mandy Haynes

"Mandy Haynes has written two short story collections with both smart and entertaining storytelling. The moment you open these books you have to read until the end. Each story leads you into another exciting one to read. It’s her voice! Mandy is original, she doesn’t let go of that Southern charm that had me at hello. It’s hers and hers alone. The first book “Walking the Wrong Way Home” and the second, “Sharp as a Serpent's Tooth - Eva and Other Stories”. She’s also written a novella, “Oliver”. She’s the editor of the anthology “Work in Progress”, and co-editor of the Southern Writers Reading reunion anthology, “The Best of the Shortest” that comes out later this year. The illustrious Mandy Haynes doesn’t stop there. She’s also the creator of this literary journal, WELL READ Magazine. " Annie McDonnell
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Keeping it Real with author Lesley Kagen

Lesley Kagen is an actress, sought-after speaker, and award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of nine novels. Whistling in the Dark (2007), Land of a Hundred Wonders (2008), Tomorrow River (2010), Good Graces (2011), Mare's Nest (2012), The Resurrection of Tess Blessing (2014), The Undertaking of Tessla (2014), The Mutual Admiration Society (2017), and Every Now and Then (2020).
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INSIDE VOICES with authors Steven Rowley and Byron Lane

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Steven Rowley, author of The Celebrants, and Byron Lane, author of Big Gay Wedding. Steven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR and Esquire Magazine as one of the Best Books of 2019, and The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for 2021 Novel of the Year and winner of The 22nd Thurber Prize for American Humor. His fiction has been published in twenty languages. His latest novel is The Celebrants. Byron Lane is an author, playwright, and screenwriter. His latest novel, Big Gay Wedding, is about a family and small town forever changed by a gay marriage. His debut novel is called A Star is Bored, about an uptight celebrity assistant struggling to manage his eccentric movie star boss, inspired in part by Lane's time as assistant to beloved actress Carrie Fisher. The New York Times Book Review hails: “Wildly funny.” And People magazine raves: “Funny, dishy, deeply affectionate... the force is with him.”
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LANGUAGE AND LAUGHTER Mandy Haynes talks with Carolyn Haines

Carolyn Haines is the USA Today bestselling author of over eighty books. She is the 2010 Harper Lee Award winning fiction writer and was inducted into the Alabama Writers' Hall of Fame in 2020. Carolyn was honored by a Lifetime Achievement Award with the Mississippi Writers Guild. She writes in a number of genres including crime, mystery, southern gothic fiction, psychological thriller, short fiction, and horror. She's also a hoot! In this interview, Carolyn talks about her love of scaring people, why she loves writing, and remembers her good friend Eugene Walter. Enjoy! #wellreadmagazine #betweenthepagespodcast #carolynhaines #mandyhaynes #eugenewalter #authors #authorinterview

ANNIE ASKS JENNIFER ANNE GORDON

Jennifer Anne Gordon is an award-winning author and popular host of the Vox Vomitus podcast. Her novel Beautiful, Frightening and Silent won the Kindle Award for Best Horror/Suspense for 2020, Best Horror 2020 from Authors on the Air, and a finalist for American Book Fest’s Best Book Award- Horror, 2020. It also received the Platinum 5 Star Review from Reader’s Choice as well as the Gold Seal from Book View. Her latest novel Pretty/Ugly won the Helicon Award for Best Horror for 2022, as well as the Gold Medal from Literary Titan. Jennifer is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association (where she served on the jury for the Stoker Awards), and is a A&E chair of the New England Crime Bake Committee.
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INSIDE VOICES - Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Neema Avashia

Neema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia to parents who immigrated to the United States from India. She has been a history and Civics teacher in the Boston Public Schools since 2003. Her essays have appeared in the Bitter Southerner, Catapult, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Her memoir, Another Appalachia, Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, was released to much acclaim in March 2022.

Annie Asks Amy Ferris

Annie McDonnell asks Amy Ferris some interesting questions...
Amy Ferris is an author, screenwriter, editor and playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions From A Midlife Crisis debuted theatrically (Off-Broadway) in 2012.
Ruth Pennebaker of The New York Times called her memoir "poignant, free-wheeling, cranky and funny." Amy co-edited, along with Hollye Dexter, the new anthology DANCING AT THE SHAME PROM. She has contributed to numerous anthologies including: He Said What? The Drinking Diaries, Exit Laughing, and The Buddha Next Door.
Amy is on faculty at The San Miguel de Allende Literary Festival, on the Advisory Board of The Women's Media Center, she serves on the Board of Directors at Peters Valley Art, Education, and Crafts Center, and is a founding Board member of the Scranton, PA based Pages & Places Literary Festival. She primarily writes about all things women-centric. While she often feels like she's in retrograde, she quite enjoys her life, and her fervent wish is that all women awaken to their greatness. She lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her husband.
 
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INSIDE VOICES - Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton in conversation with Zak Salih

Zak Salih earned his BA in English and Journalism from James Madison University, and his MA in English from the University of Virginia. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Foglifter, Epiphany, Crazyhorse, The Florida Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Millions, Apogee Journal, Kenyon Review Online, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. Let's Get Back to the Party is his debut novel. He lives in Washington, D.C.

ANNIE’S ANTICS with Meg Nocero

From Annie: "The author I choose each month is one that I believe was born to shine - this month I want to introduce the smart, motivational, inspiring, and wise author - Meg Nocero."

Donna Everhart reads Saints of Swallow Hill

Few writers evoke the complexities of the heart and the gritty fascination of the American South as vividly as Donna Everhart, whose lyrical new novel, set against the background of the Great Depression, is a powerful story of courage, survival, and friendship . . .