Category: Historical Novel

Interview with Michael Rose, Author of The Sorting Room

After a career as an executive at several global companies, Michael Rose began writing novels. Publishing fiction has been an ambition since childhood, but as he puts it “was something from the top tier of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and…

Meet Katheen Alcalá, Author of Spirits of the Ordinary

The central mystery of Katheen Alcalá’s Spirits of the Ordinary is this: how can a book have everything –breathtaking, living landscapes, gender-bending, gold fever, Indigenous wisdom without cliché or fetishization, Crypto-Jews, empowered women, and profound character arcs – yet still…