Author Interview: Country singer Trisha Yearwood shares family recipes from new cookbook

Trisha Yearwood loves food — the warmth, the creativity, the memories certain dishes evoke. The country music star wrote her first cookbook, “Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen,” with her mother and her sister as a way to memorialize her father and keep him alive through their shared love of favorite recipes. “It was so …

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Author Interview: Tallahassee author Suzanne Allain talks about new Regency romance novel

It’s not often an author credits a car accident with jump-starting their writing career, but in Suzanne Allain’s case, that’s exactly what happened. “I was a computer programmer right out of high school and then became a technical writer,” the Tallahassee-based writer said. “It wasn’t until I was recuperating from a bad auto accident that …

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Author Interview: Bestselling writer Daniel Silva’s newest thriller influenced by unprecedented year

Over the past 18 months, we’ve seen things we never would have thought possible. We’ve watched a pandemic sweep across the globe. We’ve watched lives put on hold, families separated, policies change and change back again. We’ve watched an extremely contentious election. We’ve watched a crowd of protestors, many heavily armed, rush into the U.S. …

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Author Interview: Author shares a taste of old-time recipes in ‘Florida Cracker Cookbook’

Many people have probably heard of the five love languages: quality time, gift giving, acts of service, words of affirmation and physical touch. I would like to propose a sixth: food. Joy Sheffield Harris, author of “The Florida Cracker Cookbook,” agrees. “This project started because I wanted to find out why we eat what we …

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Author Interview: Tallahassee couple’s memoir tells entrepreneurial story in ‘Married to It’

If you or a loved one has graduated from high school or college within the past four decades, there’s a good chance you own a portrait taken by Bob and Gail Knight’s photography company. The Tallahassee couple built a business empire, now called Iconic Group, by photographing graduates as they matriculated, capitalizing on their unique …

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Author Interview: ‘Running Against the Devil’ author Rick Wilson talks politics at Midtown Reader

The bad boy of Florida’s Republican Party is back, with another fascinating read on politics… although this one could also be characterized as a self-help book for Democrats running in the 2020 Presidential Primary. Rick Wilson, author of “Running Against the Devil,” is hoping his newest book will be seen as a strategic plan for …

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