My 17-page 2025 Winter Reading Guide is live! The guide contains 45 recent and upcoming releases plus new titles in book series, fiction/nonfiction pairings, stellar mystery series and some anticipated spring and summer releases. All of these will make great reads for this winter and many are books you won’t see many other places; I strive to find those under-the-radar gems. If you are interested, fill out the Google form and submit a tip of your choosing.

Interview with Nicole Baart - THE LONG WAY BACK

Interview with Nicole Baart - THE LONG WAY BACK

In this interview, Nicole and I discuss The Long Way Back, social media and how it is impacting our lives today, using a multimedia format to write the story, how the title and cover came about, crafting a mother-daughter relationship, and much more.

In this interview, Nicole and I discuss The Long Way Back, social media and how it is impacting our lives today, using a multimedia format to write the story, how the title and cover came about, crafting a mother-daughter relationship, and much more.

Nicole's recommended reads are:

  1. Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
  2. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni

Check out my Summer Reading Guide for 2023 and my Houston Life segment.

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The Long Way Back can be purchased at my Bookshop storefront.     

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Nicole Baart is the mother of five children from four different countries. The cofounder of a nonprofit organization, One Body One Hope, she lives in a small town in Iowa. She is the author of 10 novels, including Everything We Didn’t Say, You Were Always Mine, and Little Broken Things.