Write Around the Corner

We visit the Williamsburg Botanical Garden and talk with New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn. We’ll learn about the intrepid lepidopterist, Veronica Speedwell, star of Raybourn’s Victorian mystery series.

When you hear the name Pancho Villa do you think bandit, or hero, or scoundrel, or maybe, Robin Hood for the poor peasants in Mexico? Explore a complex Pancho Villa in Cameron MacKenzie’s debut novel, The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career.

We visit with Kristin Wright in Brookneal. Her southern gothic novel, Lying Beneath The Oaks, is twisty, romantic and full of suspense.

We visit the Settlers Museum in Atkins to talk with Jim Minick about his book, Fire is Your Water, Winner of the 2017 Appalachian Book of the Year for fiction. This novel explores what it means to heal and what it means to have faith in God and in each other.

On the docket this week is Martin Clark’s latest legal thriller, The Substitution Order. We talk with the best-selling author and retired judge in the courtroom of the Patrick County Courthouse in Stuart, VA.

We travel to St. Paul and the Mountain Heritage Museum and Gallery where we’ll talk with Frank Kilgore about his book, Far Southwest Virginia: A Postcard and Photographic History.

We’ll talk with science fiction writer K. E. Lanning about The Melt Trilogy which explores humanity and the future.

Walt Whitman has often been called “the poet of democracy, America’s Bard.” We’ll visit with Jean Huets in Richmond to discuss With Walt Whitman, Himself. Her book celebrates the 200th anniversary year of Whitman’s birth by taking you into his world and times through words and pictures.

This episode finds us in neighboring North Carolina to talk with Kim Michele Richardson about her multi-award winning novel, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, a riveting journey through Appalachia with a pack horse librarian in 1936.

For five years, beginning in 1959, Prince Edward County closed its public schools in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision. More than 2,000, predominately black students, were denied a formal education and lives were forever changed. We travel to the Moton Museum in Farmville to talk about The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story.

We visit with Linda Kay Simmons in Moneta to talk about her novel, Lightning Shall Strike. It tells a haunting story that spans multiple generations in rural Virginia.

Find out about the Lindsay Harding Mystery Trilogy. It's a dose of southern life, history, and murder all interwoven with a dash of humor!