Book Lover’s Companion – The English Version

Host Edith welcomes returning guest Sheila Bugler to discuss her psychological thriller The Stepmother, released in September 2026. Bugler outlines the premise: Sarah arrives to pick up her nine-year-old twin stepchildren on the last day of term, discovers Mike has taken them without warning, can’t reach him, and receives a text saying, “Don’t go home....

Host Edith welcomes fantasy author Daniel Sheley to Book Lover’s Companion to discuss his character-driven dark fantasy novel The Soul Song (released April 18, 2026). Sheley explains the book’s eight third-person viewpoints, designed to let competing ideologies collide and keep heroism ambiguous. The story begins when a boy’s village is destroyed by battling dragons and...

Host Edith interviews author Lennox Caige about his 2025 political thriller An American Spectacle, which he calls “fiction with friction” because it draws on contemporary U.S. headlines after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. Caige explains his goal to spark discussion about reproductive rights—especially rape, incest, and unclear medical exceptions—by portraying flawed characters on...

Host Edith welcomes returning guest Francine Ehrenberg to Book Lover’s Companion to discuss Ehrenberg’s second novel, A Dangerous Screw Loose, published in August and written as a direct continuation of America’s Candidate, picking up minutes after book one ends. Ehrenberg explains reader demand to resolve cliffhangers and how book two expands the political thriller into...

Host Edith welcomes author and coach Lee Baucom to Book Lover’s Companion to discuss what it means to treat writing—especially fiction—as a business. They distinguish hobby writing from pursuing income, emphasizing that authors must wear multiple hats, particularly marketing as simply making readers aware and connecting the right audience to the right book. They cover...

Host Edith welcomes San Francisco author Rick London to Book Lover’s Companion to discuss his December 2025 novel The Dancing Wolfe Man (Volume One). London explains his pen name and how a vivid nighttime drive after a 1998 Super Bowl gathering inspired a werewolf story he later developed in 2024. Wanting to avoid a typical...

Host Edith welcomes returning guest and author Twila Mason to discuss Step by Step, book two in the interconnected-yet-standalone Desperate Hearts series. Twila explains that the novel follows Chrissy’s path to a “happily ever after” after the events of book one, beginning with her being chosen to paint a City of Chicago mural and meeting...

Host Edith interviews retired US Air Force officer and historical fiction/children’s author Steve Doherty about his novels inspired by a WWII covert operative he interviewed in 1995 (renamed Jonathan Preston), whose missions behind Japanese lines in the China-Burma-India theater were classified for 50 years. Doherty explains how Preston and teammate George Linka worked with British...

Host Edith welcomes returning guest Emma Woodhouse, a fiction and nonfiction author, to discuss two upcoming autumn releases: the historical novel “Anne Morgan: Hellish Beauty” (September) and the nonfiction “Criminal Women of Victorian London” (November). Woodhouse explains her fascination with overlooked working-class Victorian women and shares the story of Anne Morgan, a “witch” murdered in...

Host Edith welcomes returning guest Kimberly Sullivan and fellow editors/writers Elaine, Carolyn, Christy, Kay to discuss the anthology Feisty Deeds 2: Historical Tales of Badges and Bruises. They explain eligibility and guidelines within the Women’s Fiction Writers Association historical fiction affinity group, including a 3,000-word limit, historical settings (50+ years past), fictional female protagonists, and...