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Author’s Bio: Michelle Morgan Spady is a multi-genre author , entrepreneur, and former middle and high school English and Business teacher. Her passion is writing children’s and women’s contemporary fiction and non-fiction. Mrs. Spady is known to empower others by encouraging them to participate in her writing projects. Teens gain invaluable education in the process of illustrating, publishing and writing books. At this writing, she is enrolled at Dallas Theological Seminary pursuing a Master of Arts Degree in Christian Education with a focus in Women’s Studies.  When not studying or writing, she loves spending time with her husband and artist, son in Reston, VA. She also can’t live without God, family and something to write with or on! Deliah Lawrence: What inspired you to write your book? Michelle Morgan Spady: My current release was inspired by a seminary class titled, “Trinitarianism”. I had to do a class project. I created a PowerPoint and from the research (and good grad...

This is the second book I have read by Michael Cordell and I enjoyed the switch in genres: legal thriller (book 1) to a psychic thriller (book 2). So, let’s meet Matthew Davis, a transplant from Hatchett, Nebraska living in Brooklyn, New York working as a short order cook at a diner for a living. He shares a psychic connection with identical twin brother, Jake and when a sudden pain hits him violently one night, he knew that Jake was killed. It's been 10 years since Matt went back home to Hatchett and this time going back for Jake’s funeral conjured up feelings of regret for not keeping in touch with Jake and their mother and for leaving Claire, his high school sweetheart without giving her a reason. While certain things remained the same when he was high school, the town has now been infested with meth addicts, dealers and corruption.   When Matt first arrived in town, he was attacked at a gas station by someone who thought he was Jake. It was obvious Jake had pissed a lot ...

Author’s Bio: Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of Remembered , is an author, academic, host, and creative producer. Remembered (Dialogue Books 2019, Blackstone Publishing 2020 ), was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Winner of a Northern Writers Award in fiction (2017), Yvonne was commended for children’s writing in the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017) and has titles in Penguin Random House’s The Ladybird Tales of Superheroes and The Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thrones . Host of Bookable-Space African-American Lit-Literary Salon and Book-able Space Middle-Grade Book Club, Yvonne has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is a 2019 British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow, and Principal Lecturer—Humanities Business and Enterprise Lead at Sheffield Hallam University where she lectures in Creative Writing.  Deliah Lawrence: What inspired you to write your book ? Yvonne Battle-Felton: Remember...