There are over 150 authors in the Cafe and Bookstore and I wanted to keep it to key pieces of information such as buying links, recent review, website and covers. However, I know that readers also like to know more about the background of authors.
In this series during June and July I will share the bios of all the authors in the cafe in a random selection. I hope that this will introduce you to the authors in more depth and encourage you to check out their books and follow them on their blog and Twitter.
Meet Cathy Cade
Cathy lives with her husband and dogs, mostly in the Cambridgeshire Fens and sometimes across the fence from London’s Epping Forest. Following a career in libraries where creative writing opportunities were limited to annual reports, she now produces a different kind of fiction.
Cathy’s short stories have been published in ‘Scribble’ magazine and Chris Fielden’s ‘To Hull and Back 2018, Short Stories’. Her stories and rhymes also appear in the anthologies ‘Where the Wild Winds Blow’ and ‘A Following Wind’, from the Whittlesey Wordsmiths’ creative writing group (both available from Amazon.)
Her verse owes more to Pam Ayres than G K Chesterton. Examples can be found at Commaful (see https://commaful.com/play/cathycade/) and on WordPress at cathy-cade.com.
Instead of budgets and report deadlines, her targets now involve wordcounts and competition deadlines, but she is having more fun.
Books by Cathy Cade
A recent review for Witch Way
Cathy is an excellent writer. The well written short stories and poetry in this book are varied and eclectic, the product of a wonderfully fertile imagination.
My favourite but only just, is probably Witch Way, I loved it from the moment of my first reading and have reread it several times.
Cathy Cade, buy : Amazon US – And: Amazon UK – Follow Cathy: Goodreads Website: Cathy Cade – Facebook: Cathy Cade Wordsmith.
Meet Noelle Granger
Noelle A. Granger grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in a rambling, 125-year-old house with a view of the sea. Summers were spent sailing and swimming. She was also one of the first tour guides at Plimoth Plantation. Granger graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a bachelor’s degree in Zoology and from Case Western Reserve University with a Ph.D. in anatomy. Following a career of research in developmental biology and teaching human anatomy to medical students and residents, the last 28 years of which were spent at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, she decided to try her hand at writing fiction. The Rhe Brewster Mystery Series was born.
In addition to the Rhe Brewster Mystery Series, Granger has had short stories, both fiction and non-fiction, published in Deep South Magazine, Sea Level Magazine, the Bella Online Literary Review, and Coastal Style Magazine, and has been featured in Chapel Hill Magazine, The News & Observer, The Boothbay Register, and other local press. Granger lives with her husband, a cat who blogs, and a hyperactive dog in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She spends a portion of every summer in Maine.
Books by Noelle Granger
One of the recent reviews for The Last Pilgrim
What a fascinating read, especially with the 400th anniversary of the departure of the Mayflower this year. I had no idea about all the hardships the Pilgrims/Separatists had to endure, and if they had not made it then we wouldn’t be here today. Her book makes you feel present at that time right along with the new settlers to the Americas. This is an entertaining way to learn the history of our great country.
Noelle A. Granger Buy: Amazon US – And: Amazon UK – Blog: Sayling Away – Goodreads:Noelle A. Granger – Twitter: @NAGrangerAuthor
Meet Claire Fullerton
Claire Fullerton hails from Memphis, TN. and now lives in Malibu, CA. with her husband and 3 German shepherds. She is the author of Mourning Dove, a coming of age, Southern family saga set in 1970’s Memphis. Mourning Dove is a five-time award winner, including the Literary Classics Words on Wings for Book of the Year, and the Ippy Award silver medal in regional fiction ( Southeast.) Claire is also the author of Dancing to an Irish Reel, a Kindle Book Review and Readers’ Favorite award winner that is set on the west coast of Ireland, where she once lived. Claire’s first novel is a paranormal mystery set in two time periods titled, A Portal in Time, set in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
She is a contributor to the book, A Southern Season with her novella, Through an Autumn Window, set at a Memphis funeral ( because something always goes wrong at a Southern funeral.) Little Tea is Claire’s 4th novel and is set in the Deep South. It is the story of the bonds of female friendship, healing the past, and outdated racial relations. Little Tea is the August selection of the Pulpwood Queens, a Faulkner Society finalist in the William Wisdom international competition, and on the long list of the Chanticleer Review’s Somerset award. She is represented by Julie Gwinn of the Seymour Literary.
Books by Claire Fullerton
One of the recent reviews for Little Tea
Barbara Kingsolver says. “Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.” That is exactly what Claire Fullerton has done with LITTLE TEA. As a reader, you will live as a southerner in Como, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, and Heber Springs, Arkansas. You will experience the physical surroundings, understand the needs and wants and prejudices of the multigenerational population, and most of all you will go to the heart of a privileged southern woman, her deep abiding friendships and her special awareness of the embedded issues of race. LITTLE TEA is a story for our time.
Claire Fullerton, Buy: Amazon US – and: Amazon UK – Follow Claire on : Goodreads – website: Claire Fullerton – Twitter: @Cfullerton3
Thank you for dropping in today and I hope that you have enjoyed meeting more of the authors in the Cafe and Bookstore and discovering their books. Thanks Sally.
I lived in Soham for several years, went to school in Ely and my grandarents lived in Whittlesey – who knows if my path has crossed with Cathy’s! I made the mistake of reading the open pages of Witch Way on Amazon and I know I’m going to have to buy the book. I already have Noelle’s The Last Pilgrim, and I’m sorely tempted by Little Tea. If I could just have an extra 72 hours a day…
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You better get in line Alex..we are all after that extra bit of time… but…we do what we can…hugsxx
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Little Tea is absolutely brilliant, Alex. And I love Noelle’s writing.
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Thanks for the recommendation, Judith!
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Hi, Alex. When you visited your grandparents, you may have seen the railway carriage home on the Whittlesey-Peterborough road. The leader of our writing group lives there and has written a memoir – The Railway Carriage Child – also on Amazon as a paperback by Wendy Fletcher. It’s a fascinating glimpse into Whittlesey’s history.
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I’m a little sad that I didn’t notice them – my grandarents moved when I was 15. The Railway Carriage Child sounds intriguing, though!
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Apparently they’ve been there since the 1920s. Two Great Eastern railway carriages converted into a home.
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Many thanks, Alex. I appreciate your patronage. Sally is so great at helping publicize authors and right now she’s needed more than ever – terrible environment to be marketing a book. I do hope you emjoy TLP.
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Reblogged this on Judith Barrow.
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Thanks, Judith. I very much appreciate any help in getting the word out about my book!
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Thank you, Sally. Just finished Little Tea. Read it twice to savour the whole story. Will review in the next week. xx
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Fantastic Judith and will keep an eye open to share in an update..hugsx
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A fabulous group once again, Sally
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Thank you John..hugsxxx
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Thank you, Sally. MUCH appreciated!
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Pleasure Noelle..hugsx
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Another great bunch of authors, Sally. And you found some tantalizing reviews!
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Thanks Diana… hugsx
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Thanks for your comment, Diana!
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Fabulous books and reviews. Congrats to Noelle and Claire and Kathy. ❤
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Thanks Debby..♥
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Thanks, Debbie!
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Little Tea is on my TBR, but The Last Pilgrim sounds very interesting too. Thank you for sharing the information, Sally!
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Like to make sure that you are stocked up with books Michael..hugsxx
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Always Sally! There will be time to read, i am sure.
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I have such fun with ya’ll, Sally! Debbie alerted me to this post and I hopped right over! The dynamic duo strikes again! Thank you so much Sally. I appreciate you SO MUCH!
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Pleasure Claire.. always happy to have you over here mingling.. hugs ♥
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Lovely books, Sally. I am looking forward to reading The Last Pilgrim and the other two also sound terrific.
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Thanks Robbie…I am looking forward to The Last Pilgrim too… something to look forward to…hugsx
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Thanks, Robbie. I hope you enjoy TLP. Reviews welcome!
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Wonderful to meet these excellent authors – I’m very interested in Noelle’s series. Congratulations, everyone, on these great reviews. Toni
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Thank you very much Toni…hugs xx
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Thanks, Toni! TLP was a real shift from my mystery series but it was a book that needed writing. I hope I did Mary Allerton proud.
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Many, many thanks, Sally. And now I have two more authors to add to my TBR mountain.
If ever the sun comes out again here in the UK I’ll be mothballing the laptop for a while and getting out there with my reading specs on.
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Lol.. I know the feeling Cathy.. we have had winds and gales with just the odd day of sunshine for the last three weeks.. I am desperate too to get out into the garden with my books…hugs
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I hope you enjoy the book, Kathy. I have a tottering TBR pile of my own!
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Reblogged this on Author Don Massenzio and commented:
It’s time to meet the authors via this post from the Smorgasbord Cafe and Bookstore featuring Cathy Cade, Noelle Granger and Claire Fullerton
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Thanks, Don. In this miserable environment for a book release, I welcome all the help I can get to promo my book. I do appreciate it!
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You’re welcome. I can empathize for sure.
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Reblogged this on Writing Wrinkles and commented:
Many thanks to Sally’s wonderfully eclectic Smorgasbord for including my books in her blog (..and I now have two more authors to add to my TBR mountain).
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Thanks for sharing Cathy..x
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