Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine

Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine

Hear interviews and readings from some of today’s hottest authors and learn more about the stories behind the stories you’ll find in each issue of WELL READ Magazine - THE online magazine for readers, writers, and booklovers of all genres.

Episodes

April 23, 2025 28 mins

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Jeffrey Blount

Jeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of four novels. Almost Snow White, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards, Hating Heidi Foster, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature, The Emancipation of Evan Walls, winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Award for African American fiction and other awards, and Jeffrey's latest no...

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Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Emily Carpenter

Emily Carpenter is the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of suspense novels, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, The Weight of Lies, and Every Single Secret. After graduating from Auburn with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication, she moved to New York City. She’s worked as an actor, producer, screenwriter, and behind-the-scenes soap opera assistant for the CB...

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March 7, 2025 35 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Shastri Akella

Shastri Akella’s debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published by Flatiron Books in the USA and Canada and by Penguin in India. He was a writing resident at the Fine Arts Works Center and the Oak Springs Garden Foundation. He is the winner of the 2022 FracturedLit Flash Fiction Contest and the 2023 Best Microfiction Contest. His writing has appeared in Guernica, Fairy...

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March 7, 2025 28 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview The Biscuit Queen!

Mary Martha Greene is a South Carolina native and government relations consultant who perfected her entertaining skills for making friends and engaging clients during her forty-year career. She divides her time between Beaufort and Columbia, SC. She is the author of the bestselling book, The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All and the sequel, The Cheese Biscuit Queen, ...

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March 7, 2025 27 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Kalela Williams Kalela Williams is an author, a proud auntie, a cat mama, and a "Black History Maven." She is the Director of the Virginia Center for the Book and directs the Virginia Festival of the Book and other events. She has created and produced literary events for the Philadelphia library system, a youth writing non-profit, a university poetry center, and other institutions. ...

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March 7, 2025 39 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Kimberly Brock

 

Kimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fiction, and The River Witch, recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award. She is the founder of Tinderbox Writers Workshop and has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national writing workshops including at the P...

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March 7, 2025 29 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Federico Eribia

Federico Erebia received the 2024 Lambda Literary Exceptional New Writer Award. His debut novel, Pedro & Daniel, follows two gay, neurodivergent, Mexican American brothers, over a twenty-four year span, who experience joy and laughter, despite years of abuse and oppression.  Pedro & Daniel has won numerous awards, starred reviews, and other accolades, includi...

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October 26, 2024 37 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce James Wade

 

James Wade is the award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth, All Things Left Wild, and River, Sing Out. He is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. James’s work has appeared in Southern Literary Magazine, The Bitter Oleander, Writers’ Digest, and numerous a...

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October 26, 2024 33 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Piper G. Huguley

Piper G. Huguley’s biographical historical fiction, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of...

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October 26, 2024 35 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Mimi Herman.

Mimi Herman is a Kennedy Center teaching artist and codirector of Writeaways writing workshops in France, Italy, Ireland, and New Mexico. She serves as vice-chair of the Board of Directors for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and has taught in the Masters of Education programs at Lesley University, served as the North Carolina Piedmont Laureate and bee...

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October 26, 2024 28 mins

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Curtis Chin A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press ...

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October 26, 2024 28 mins

Clay Smith is the literary director at the Library of Congress. In that role, he curates the lineup of the National Book Festival and oversees the Library’s ambassador-ships, which include the United States Poet Laureate and the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of Kirkus Reviews and the literary director of the San Antonio Book Festival and the Texas Book Festival and worked ...

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October 26, 2024 27 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce essayist, playwright, and cultural critic, Gwydion Suilebhan.

“…for me, the process I rely on is deeply entwined with my subject matter, and I’m never following a formula when I make art.”

Gwydion Suilebhan is a cultural critic, essayist, and play-wright. A lifelong arts advocate, he serves as both the Ex-ecutive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Project Director of th...

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February 13, 2024 43 mins

Annie McDonnell introduces Vanessa Lillie, author of the USA Today bestselling suspense novel, Blood Sisters.

 

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With so many articles today about how hard it is for men to show affection towards each other, let alone maintain those relationships, how very interesting to discuss male friendship. Especially for the month of February. You can’t say the word February and not think “Valentine” which is mostly about couples, and it is about love, but it’s also about the most important relationship there is - friendship.

Of course these two friends...

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February 13, 2024 28 mins

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Karen Schwettman, owner of FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock Georgia.

“…Attacks on books and freedom to read what one wants makes me more determined to be a welcoming place for all readers.” Karen Schwettman is the owner of FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock, GA. She began her career as an interior de-signer and has worked with Sherwin Williams, House Parts, and her own design firm, Ka...

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February 13, 2024 50 mins

Eoin was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1977. He grew up in the beautiful Dublin suburb of Dalkey, where he and his friends would jump into the icy waters of the Irish Sea (during summertime) to prove their manliness. Eoin had a fantastic time attending Blackrock College, where he played rugby (poorly) and did his best to coast his way through. Eoin’s first ambition was to play rugby for Ireland. Due to a lack of talent, he soon abando...

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February 13, 2024 20 mins

Jeffrey's new novel, Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way, graces January's cover.

“Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way is a mesmerizing look at one man’s fall from grace and the age-old struggle for redemption. James Henry Ferguson is a philanthropic Black businessman whose wounded ego leads him to a self-destructive act that destroys all he holds dear. Finding himself outcast and reviled not only by society but also by his beloved family, he ...

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February 13, 2024 41 mins

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Donna Everhart

 

Donna Everhart is the USA Today bestselling author of authentic, vivid Southern fiction, including the Southeastern Library Association Award-winning The Road to Bittersweet, Indie Next Pick and Amazon Book of the Month, The Education of Dixie Dupree, The Forgiving Kind, The Moonshiner’s Daughter, and The Saints of Swallow Hill. Her sixth novel, When the Jessamine...

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Join us, as we learn more about some of Annie’s favorite authors!

 

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