The Remarkable Journey of Amanda Kyle Williams: Atlanta’s Rising Queen of Crime Fiction

December 2, 2015 · by Deb Miller | in Author Interviews, The Writing Life | tagged Amanda Kyle Williams, Atlanta in fiction, crime fiction, crime series, famous people who are dyslexic, humor and crime fiction, persistence and success, phonics and reading, reading as craft instruction, writing as pleasure and torment | 12 Comments

From adolescent non-reader to adult writer of crime thrillers, the story of award-winning author Amanda Kyle Williams is as inspiring as it is surprising. Throw in surviving a chemical addiction and endometrial cancer, and it becomes nothing short of miraculous. If you ask Williams how it happened, she’ll tell you it can only be explained […]

Book Club Evolved

January 7, 2015 · by Deb Miller | in The Club Scene | tagged 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Amanda Kyle Williams, Book Clubs, Book Clubs and Food, Bryce Courtenay, Edna Lewis, Erik Larson, Joan Didion, Scott Peacock, Selecting Titles for Book Clubs, Starting a Book Club, The Columbia Exposition, The Devil in the White City, The Gift of Southern Cooking, The Power of One, The Stranger You Seek, The Year of Magical Thinking | 9 Comments

The Pinetree Drive Good Neighbors Book Club, as conceived in 2007 by two good friends, was unique in design by most literary standards. Instead of reading and discussing one common title per month, the residents of the short street would be invited to read whatever they liked and convene monthly to present their choices via […]