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Literary Love Triangles: Team Oscar, Team Carl—or Team Jacquette?

Posted on August 5, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Favorite Authors, Movies, TV, Books, Newsletter

Book Two in the Butterfly Games series turns up the heat on Jacquette, Oscar, and Carl. Here are the literary love triangles inspiring the story.

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Cover of historical fiction novel The Lost Girl of Craven County by Emily Matchar to accompany interview by Kelly Scarborough

Emily Matchar Q&A

Posted on February 6, 2026 in Favorite Authors, Interviews, Monthly Blog

Having read and loved Emily Matchar’s debut historical novel, I was so pleased when she agreed to join me for a conversation about her upcoming historical fiction release, The Lost Girl of Craven County. Kelly: Emily, your background is in journalism…

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Cover of historical novel Napoleon's Mirage by Michelle Cameron

Q&A with Michelle Cameron: On Napoleon’s Mirage and the Illusions We Hold

Posted on July 11, 2025 in Favorite Authors

I love Napoleonic tales, especially those with far-flung settings distant from Bonaparte’s seat of power in Paris. Having already read and loved Michelle Cameron’s Beyond the Ghetto Gates, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy of Napoleon’s Mirag…

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Q&A with Jude Berman: On The Vow, Angelica Kauffman, and Reimagining a Forgotten Icon

Posted on May 8, 2025 in Favorite Authors

This month, I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Jude Berman—historian, novelist, and all-around master of time travel (of the literary kind, that is). Her novel The Vow reimagines the life of 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman, a name that…

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