Catriona

Exclusive interview with author Jeanette Baker and a review of her newly rereleased historical time travel novel *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 7/13/2011 – “While visiting Stirling Castle in Scotland, I climbed the stairs to the watchtower where Margaret Tudor, daughter to Henry VII of England and wife to James IV of Scotland, waited for her husband to return from the Battle of Flodden Moor,” says author of Catriona Jeanette Baker. “The battle was particularly difficult (more…)

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Elizabeth I, the queen of Shakespeare

Exclusive interview with author Margaret George and a review of her new novel about Queen Elizabeth and life in the age of Shakespeare *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 7/12/2011- “The number one question people ask is: ‘Was she really a virgin?’ ,” says Elizabeth I author Margaret George. “They seem obsessed with this and worried that she missed out on some fun. They keep asking me for proof that she was one way or the other, which is of course impossible to judge hundreds of years later.”

“My novel about Elizabeth starts where most stop, at the Armada,” says George. “To me that is the most interesting part of her reign. She is at the height of her power but most in danger of (more…)

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Phoenix Rising, A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences

Exclusive interview with co-authors Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine, with a review of their new steampunk novel *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 6/21/2011-“I have been itching to write something in a steampunk setting since discovering this sub-genre of science fiction,” says Phoenix Rising co-author Tee Morris. “Pip wanted to try a podcast-for-pay model, and offered up the idea of a spinoff to this book that had barely a chapter and a half completed. We were going to (more…)

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Exclusive interview with author Gabrielle Donnelly and a review of her new book The Little Women Letters, a bond of sisters that spans generations **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 6/16/2011 – “Orchard House, the house in Concord, Massachusetts, where Louisa May Alcott lived while she was writing Little Women, was her model for the March family home,” says The Little Women Letters author Gabrielle Donnelly. “The house is now a Little Women museum. It’s as magical a place as it sounds. Walking inside is like stepping into the pages of Little Women itself.”

The idea for The Little Women Letters came from an editor at Michael Joseph who asked, what would happen if Jo March’s great-great-granddaughter found a cache of her ancestor’s letters? (more…)

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Exclusive interview with author Jo Beverley and a review of her new novel An Unlikely Countess *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 5/19/2011 –“I can’t remember why I decided that Cate’s brother was a collector of rare trees,” says An Unlikely Countess author Jo Beverley. “When I was describing the park at Keynings as Cate returns home, I put in a weeping willow for a bit of mourning imagery. The weeping willow was only just being introduced to England. It was failing to thrive, even in the south.”

An Unlikely Countess draws the reader right in. Beverley builds the world (more…)

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Exclusive interview with author Diane Haeger and a review of her new novel about Henry VIII’s mistress *** 3Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 5/12/2011 – “Bess Blount really was so much more than a footnote in the history books,” says The Queens Rival author Diane Haeger. “I became passionate about telling her story.” Blount was the mother of Henry VIII’s son Henry Fitzroy. She was one of the two women to bear the king a living son.

The Queens Rival drops you right into Blount’s life. Blount leaves her home at Kinlet to join the court of Henry VIII at age 12 to be a lady-in-waiting (more…)

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Exclusive interview with author Bianca Turetsky and a review of her new book Time Traveling Fashionista about a 12-year-old girl who time travels back to be on board the Titanic  **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

The Time Traveling Fashionista, traveling back in time to see the fashions on the Titanic

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 5/9/2011 –“My original idea was that Louise would wake up in the life of a Miss Baxter on the Titanic,” says Time Traveling Fashionista author Bianca Turetsky. The weird part was that the more research I did…there actually was a first class passenger traveling onboard the ship named Mrs Baxter.”

The Time Traveling Fashionista is about Louise Lambert, a fashion conscious seventh grader who likes vintage clothing. When Louisa tries on one of the dresses she’s transported (more…)

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Exclusive interview with novelist Sonya Sones and a review of her new novel about what happens to women as they get older *** 3 stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

A novel of motherhood and menopause, The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 5/4//2011 – “I was trying to write the YA novel in verse I owed Simon and Schuster,” says The Hunchback of Nieman Marcus author Sonya Sones. “But every time I sat down at my computer, out popped another poem about going through menopause, or about my imminent empty nest, not exactly subjects that teens would find enthralling.”

“After a while, I finally just gave in and let (more…)

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Exclusive interview with Kenji Yoshino and review of his novel on Shakespeare and justice **** Four Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 5/4/2011 – “As word trickled out that I was working on a book on justice in Shakespeare, I got a increasing sense of how many Shakespearean justicers, to use a term from Lear, there are,” says A Thousand Times More Fair author Kenji Yoshino. “In Manhattan, a group of lawyers and judges have been meeting to read a Shakespeare play aloud together each month. They are now on their second run through the canon.”

Yoshino’s approach is to make controversial statements to stimulate thinking (more…)

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Exclusive interview with novelist Laura Childs and the latest book in her Tea Cozy Mysteries *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Scones and Bones, where is Blackbeard's skull?

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 5/2/2011 – “The title popped into my head a couple of years ago and I thought it was both wicked and delicious,” says Scones & Bones author Laura  Childs. “So I started piecing together a story that involved my main character, Theodosia, who runs the Indigo Tea Shop. She attends a Pirates & Plunder show in Charleston , South Carolina, and gets pulled into the theft of a bizarre diamond and gold drinking cup fashioned from the skull of the notorious English pirate Blackbeard.”

Scones & Bones is the story of Theodosia Browning, proprietor of Charleston’s city’s Indigo Tea Shop. She’s also a sleuth. A skull cup with diamonds is stolen at the Heritage Society’s Pirates and Plunder show right in front of (more…)

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