Shelley Blanton Stroud

Author Interview with Maren Cooper by Shelley Blanton Stroud

In conversation with Author Shelley Blanton-Stroud, Author Maren Cooper discusses her writing journey and her latest thriller novel, Behind the Lies. She talks about her transition from a career in healthcare to becoming a writer, and how she discovered her…

An Interview With Carmen Amato

Carmen Amato is a retired Central Intelligence Agency officer and an award-winning mystery and thriller author. With experience as the head of a U.S. national intelligence tradecraft school, Carmen also led an intelligence collection program responsible for the Western Hemisphere.…

An Author Interview with Lou Kemp

Lou Kemp is a California-born author who now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and a herd of cats. Before becoming a full-time writer, Lou worked as an engineer and project manager. Her early writing work was in…

An Interview with Daryl Wood Gerber

Daryl Wood Gerber is the Agatha Award-winning, nationally bestselling author of of The Fairy Garden Mysteries, featuring a fairy garden shop owner in charming Carmel, California, The French Bistro Mysteries, featuring a former chef who is now an up-and-coming bistro…

An interview with Dana Killion

Dana Killion is a successful author known for her mystery series featuring protagonist Andrea Kellner, an investigative reporter based in Chicago. The five books in the series have been well received by readers and critics alike, with Killion’s latest book,…

Countdown to Christmas: Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Shelley Blanton-Stroud Christmas

Countdown to Christmas: Shelley Blanton-Stroud 🎄🔎Welcome to our first featured Author Shelley Blanton-Stroud! TRUE OR FALSE? Shelley hangs four polyester fast food uniforms in her closet. A bit about Shelley: Shelley grew up in California’s Central Valley, the daughter of…

Scot Mist by Catriona McPherson an interview with Shelley Blanton-Stroud

catriona mcpherson

Catriona McPherson was born in Scotland and lived there until 2010, before she immigrated to California where she lives on Patwin ancestral land. A former academic linguist, she now writes full-time. Her multi-award-winning and national best-selling work includes: the DANDY GILVER historical detective stories, the LAST…