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Step into the Story is an online community for readers and writers, hosted by Donna Jones Alward and Barbara Tanner Wallace, best friends and authors who are passionate about quality fiction, especially historical and women's fiction. Together they've published nearly 100 books and sold 3 million books worldwide.
Each month they do a deep dive into a popular title as well as special programming, author interviews and more. In addition, their monthly Writing Room segment, features tips on writing top-notch fiction.
Finally, on the first Friday of every month, Barb shares her recommended reads on her show, Barb's Book Reviews.
Join them and celebrate all things books. #booktube #authortube #writingtips #bookrecommendations #bookdiscussion #bookreviews
Each month they do a deep dive into a popular title as well as special programming, author interviews and more. In addition, their monthly Writing Room segment, features tips on writing top-notch fiction.
Finally, on the first Friday of every month, Barb shares her recommended reads on her show, Barb's Book Reviews.
Join them and celebrate all things books. #booktube #authortube #writingtips #bookrecommendations #bookdiscussion #bookreviews
Step Into the Story Book Chat: When the World Fell Silent
It's a very special episode of Step into the Story. Sydney Young of #hfchitchat and Emily York, aka The Book Distiller, take over the studio to review Donna's historical fiction debut: When the World Fell Silent.
Spoiler Alert! They liked it.
From the Back Cover:
1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Nora Crowell wants more than her sister’s life as a wife and mother. As WWI rages across the Atlantic, she becomes a lieutenant in the Canadian Army Nursing Corps. But trouble is looming and it won’t be long before the truth comes to light.
Having lost her beloved husband in the trenches and with no-one else to turn to, Charlotte Campbell now lives with his haughty relations who treat her like the help. It is baby Aileen, the joy and light of her life, who spurs her to dream of a better life.
When tragedy strikes in Halifax Harbour, nothing for these two women will ever be the same again. Their paths will cross in the most unexpected way, trailing both heartbreak and joy its wake…
Grab Your Copy:
Amazon: bit.ly/3X4CKot
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3WNdEca
Bookshop.org: bit.ly/4dHx1KB
Connect with Donna: donnajonesalward.com
Connect with Syd Young: www.sydyoung.com
Connect with Emily York: thebookdistiller
Step into the Story is a community for readers and writers of historical fiction. Each month authors Donna Jones Alward and Barbara Tanner-Wallace feature book chats, interviews, reviews, and writing tips. Please like and subscribe.
Continue the conversation in the Step into the Story Facebook Community: / stepi. .
Donna's website: donnaalward.com
Barbara's website: barbaratannerwallace.com
Thanks for watching.
Spoiler Alert! They liked it.
From the Back Cover:
1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Nora Crowell wants more than her sister’s life as a wife and mother. As WWI rages across the Atlantic, she becomes a lieutenant in the Canadian Army Nursing Corps. But trouble is looming and it won’t be long before the truth comes to light.
Having lost her beloved husband in the trenches and with no-one else to turn to, Charlotte Campbell now lives with his haughty relations who treat her like the help. It is baby Aileen, the joy and light of her life, who spurs her to dream of a better life.
When tragedy strikes in Halifax Harbour, nothing for these two women will ever be the same again. Their paths will cross in the most unexpected way, trailing both heartbreak and joy its wake…
Grab Your Copy:
Amazon: bit.ly/3X4CKot
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3WNdEca
Bookshop.org: bit.ly/4dHx1KB
Connect with Donna: donnajonesalward.com
Connect with Syd Young: www.sydyoung.com
Connect with Emily York: thebookdistiller
Step into the Story is a community for readers and writers of historical fiction. Each month authors Donna Jones Alward and Barbara Tanner-Wallace feature book chats, interviews, reviews, and writing tips. Please like and subscribe.
Continue the conversation in the Step into the Story Facebook Community: / stepi. .
Donna's website: donnaalward.com
Barbara's website: barbaratannerwallace.com
Thanks for watching.
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Step Into the Story: Reading Challenge Check In
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Barb and Donna check in with a mid-year review of two reading challenge titles. THE LIBRARIAN OF BURNED BOOKS by Brianna Lebuskes and THE WITCH AND THE TSAR by Olyesa Gilmore. SPOILER ALERT: They were both five stars! THE LIBRARIAN OF BANNED BOOKS From the Back Cover: Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels ...
Step Into the Story Book Chat: The Queen's Faithful Companion
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Barb and Donna chat about Eliza Knight's latest book, THE QUEEN'S FAITHFUL COMPANION, a sweet novel about the bond between QE2 and her beloved corgi, Susan. FROM THE BACK COVER: A reigning queen... Elizabeth wasn't born to be queen. But when her uncle abdicates and her father steps in as king, everything in her life changes. There is one thing that never wavers, however: her endearing love of h...
Step into the Story Featured Author Janis Robinson Daly
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Janis Robinson Daly, author of THE UNLOCKED PATH stops by to chat about her work and writing process. From the back cover: In 1897 Philadelphia, after witnessing her aunt's suicide, Eliza Pearson Edwards rejects her mother’s wishes for a society debut, and at a time when five percent of doctors are female, she enters a woman’s medical college. With the support of a circle of women and driven by...
Step Into the Story Book Chat: Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
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In honor of Canada's Indigenous People's Month, Barb and Donna dive into WANDERING STARS, Tommy Orange's follow up to his Pulitzer Nominated book, THERE THERE. The book, which is more literary than commercial fiction, is a departure from our usual reads. As a result, it sparks a lively debate respecting a theme vs. loving a boo From the back cover: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the ...
Featured Author Interview: Kimberly Sullivan
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Barb is joined by Featured Author Kimberly Sullivan, author of Rome's Last Noble Palace to talk about indie publishing, writing about feisty women, and the inspiration behind Rome's Last Noble Palace. Kimberly grew up in the suburbs of Boston and in Saratoga Springs, New York, although she now calls the Harlem neighborhood of New York City home when she’s back in the US. She majored in politica...
Book Chat: The Trouble With You by Ellen Feldman
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Barb and special guest Renee Ryan discuss THE TROUBLE WITH YOU by Ellen Feldman More Historical Women's Fiction than straight Hist. Fic., The TROUBLE WITH YOU tells the story of Fanny Fabricant, a young mother in the 1950s. When tragedy upends her life, she must go to work to support her family. Taking a job as a secretary for a radio serial producer, she comes face-to-face with the blacklistin...
Book Discussion: QUEENS OF LONDON by Heather Webb
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If you like the Roaring Twenties, caper books, Peaky Blinders, or Charles Dickens, then Heather Webb's QUEENS OF LONDON is for you. It's the story of Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants, Britain's first female crime syndicate. QUEENS OF LONDON is a strong, character-driven novel about the paths we choose to follow in life. The four main characters (all women) face crucial decisions that affec...
Step Into the Story Featured Author: Sara Ackerman
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Donna and Barb welcome USA Today bestseller Sara Ackerman who visits us all the way from Hawaii. Sara is the author of six historical fiction novels. Her latest book, THE UNCHARTED FLIGHT OF OLIVIA WEST, is a departure from her WW2 historical fiction. Inspired by a real-life air race from San Francisco to Hawaii, it's the story of a female aviator who challenges convention to pursue her dreams....
Step Into the Story Book Chat: The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
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Step Into the Story Book Chat: The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
Step Into the Story Featured Author: Embassie Susberry
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Step Into the Story Featured Author: Embassie Susberry
Step Into the Story Featured Author: Embassie Susberry
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Step Into the Story Featured Author: Embassie Susberry
Step Into the Story with Donna and Barb: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
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Step Into the Story with Donna and Barb: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Step into the Story Book Chat: Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
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Step into the Story Book Chat: Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
A #CanLit Icon - Donna Morrissey's THE FORTUNATE BROTHER, 1-Minute Review
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A #CanLit Icon - Donna Morrissey's THE FORTUNATE BROTHER, 1-Minute Review
Step into the Story Book Chat: Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
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Step into the Story Book Chat: Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
WHY AREN'T YOU READING QUEEN OF EXILES?
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WHY AREN'T YOU READING QUEEN OF EXILES?
Step Into the Story Boxing Day Special: Donna and Barb Announce the 2024 Reading Challenge
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Step Into the Story Boxing Day Special: Donna and Barb Announce the 2024 Reading Challenge
Step Into the Story Holiday Wrap-Up with Special Guest, Renee Ryan, author of The Paris Housekeeper
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Step Into the Story Holiday Wrap-Up with Special Guest, Renee Ryan, author of The Paris Housekeeper
Step Into the Story with Donna and Barb
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Step into the Story Book Chat: The Winter Guest by Pam Jenoff
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Step Into the Story Writing Room. Episode 15: What to Do After You Type The End
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Step Into the Story Writing Room. Episode 15: What to Do After You Type The End
Step Into the Story Featured Authors: Janet Raye Stevens on genre-bending, time travel and WW2
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Step Into the Story Featured Authors: Janet Raye Stevens on genre-bending, time travel and WW2
Step into the Story Book Chat: The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton
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Step into the Story Book Chat: The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton
Step into the Story Writing Room: Show Don't Tell - Six Tips
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Step Into the Story Featured Author: Madeline Martin
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Step Into the Story Featured Author: Susanna Kearsley
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Book Discussion: Three Words For Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
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Book Discussion: Three Words For Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
Step Into the Story Writing Room. Episode 12: Sagging Middles
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Step Into the Story Writing Room. Episode 12: Sagging Middles
Emily! I researched for a good 3 months, and then as needed during the writing.
Hey Syd! Nurses were not allowed to be married... even in wartime! Yes, there was a fight for women's rights. I'll do a blog!
I knew you’d know!!
This was a great interview for us fans of Embassie's books!
@@5missen Embassies is great. Can’t wait for her new one.
Recommended Fiction - Indigenous Reads (Canadian): EMPIRE OF WILD and THE MARROW THIEVES, Cherie Dimaline; FIVE LITTLE INDIANS, Michelle Good; THE BERRY PICKERS, Amanda Peters; SPLIT TOOTH, Tanya Tagaq; MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES, Waubgeshig Rice
I need to read this novel! Great conversation.
What did you say was the meaning of the title? THANKS.
Loved THE LAST LOVE BOAT and QUEENS OF LONDON - that is Heather's newest book. I didn't read the other one you mentioned.
Love this discussion....thank you.
very good done. Step- :)
Thank you!
Super helpful! Thank you so much ! ❤
I'm glad you liked it!
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Thank you !! Fantastic!
So great having Angela with us even with the tech glitches.
So exciting!
The episode references a research piece by the website Quarkndagger. You can view it here: quarkndagger.com/sci-fi-writers-ultimate-guide-to-research/
Totally agree about generational trauma! Great book. I loved it. 😍
Queen of Exiles sounds like it'll be similar to Island Queen in that we'll get a super strong, independent woman mingling in society.
Renee's book was a great book to start off the year. Check it out!
Thanks for your review, Barb! I really enjoyed your take on The German Wife.
Thank you for the kind words!
Books mentioned in this episode include Writing Unforgettable Characters by James Scott Bell, Character and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card, and Writing Compelling Fiction by Shirley Jump
Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this book. I loved Dear Mrs. Bird. One of my favorites last year.
The Librarian Spy is wonderful as is Operation Mincemeat. Definite must reads
I loved Dear Mrs. Bird. I laughed and cried almost at the same time.
AJ Pearce has a very sly wit. Both Donna and I really loved the book.
Yeah Lindsey..
Lindsey is wonderful. We discovered we have a lot of the same reading tastes. No wonder we love her channel.
Do make sure you read Madeline Martin's The Librarian Spy but don't try doing that on the edge of your seat. If you are going to read nail biting thrillers about young women spies in the Second World War, make sure you are sitting comfortably. Mind you, I recall my librarian filed away Ben Macintyre’s WW2 espionage thriller Operation Mincemeat and Len Deighton’s Cold War classic Ipcress File as cook books. She even archived Mick Herron’s sardonic spy thriller Slow Horses next to George Orwell’s Animal Farm and filed Bill Fairclough’s espionage epic Beyond Enkription under cryptography before she completed her MI6 induction program. Of course, you may not know that Beyond Enkription features Sara Burlington who was a British spy in occupied France in World War 2 and in real life actually married the owner of an antiquarian bookshop; needless to say it was a front. It’s a must read for espionage cognoscenti just as The Librarian Spy is.
Do make sure you read Madeline Martin's The Librarian Spy but don't try doing that on the edge of your seat. If you are going to read nail biting thrillers about young women spies in the Second World War, make sure you are sitting comfortably. Mind you, I recall my librarian filed away Ben Macintyre’s WW2 espionage thriller Operation Mincemeat and Len Deighton’s Cold War classic Ipcress File as cook books. She even archived Mick Herron’s sardonic spy thriller Slow Horses next to George Orwell’s Animal Farm and filed Bill Fairclough’s espionage epic Beyond Enkription under cryptography before she completed her MI6 induction program. Of course, you may not know that Beyond Enkription features Sara Burlington who was a British spy in occupied France in World War 2. It’s a must read for espionage cognoscenti just as The Librarian Spy is.
I love to see you laughing and smiling together - Donna's laugh is contagious! Thanks for gifting us the list of books to look forward to in 2022!
You are so welcome! We can't wait until you come back on Theresa!
Thanks for having me on Off the Shelf! I love these conversations among friends about the books we are reading!
Any time! WE love having you!