Haunted woman claws her way back to reality by reconnecting with her magical powers in The Talking Cure, a supernatural Yuletide follow-up to The Big Cinch. Visit the Shop for links to stories. We sat down for a little chat with one of The Talking Cure protagonists recently, and now it’s time for the book’s author to interview herself with some questions thoughtfully provided by the good folks at Other Worlds Ink Blog Tours. Author Kathy L. Brown The Talking Cure is a supernatural noir murder mystery set in 1924. Committed to an insane asylum, Violet Humphrey is isolated on the Illinois prairie with only her own thoughts and a persistent new voice in her head for company.

Haunted woman claws her way back to reality by reconnecting with her magical powers in The Talking Cure, a supernatural Yuletide follow-up to The Big Cinch. Visit the Shop for links to stories. To write a novel like The Talking Cure, I dove deeply into the people, places, and cultures that shaped my characters’ challenges. I’ve talked about character creation for this book earlier. Another helpful practice is to write brief flash fiction backstory pieces. These stories not only fill in the facts of their past lives but also gave me a strong sense of how my paper doll people feel about what they’ve gone through.

Much like a real newborn, my latest book baby, The Talking Cure, has arrived a bit before its due date. We can all enjoy it now! Visit the Shop for links to stories. Haunted woman claws her way back to reality by reconnecting with her magical powers in The Talking Cure, a supernatural Yuletide follow-up to The Big Cinch. Sean Joye Investigations The Sean Joye Investigations series embeds readers in a magic-laced 1920s era St. Louis. The world has barely survived a brutal global war, disease pandemic, and rampant ethnic violence.

Pre-order The Talking Cure e-book now for November 25 delivery. Haunted woman claws her way back to reality by reconnecting with her magical powers in The Talking Cure, a supernatural Yuletide follow-up to The Big Cinch. Visit the Shop for links to stories. In my 1920s supernatural noir novel, The Talking Cure, Violet Humphrey, a young woman confined to the Elsass Institute, must claw her way back to reality by investigating a murder at the asylum. Under magical duress, Sean Joye, a frenemy from the first Sean Joye Investigations novel, …

Pre-order The Talking Cure e-book now for November 25 delivery. Haunted woman claws her way back to reality by reconnecting with her magical powers in The Talking Cure, a supernatural Yuletide follow-up to The Big Cinch. Visit the Shop for links to stories. My new novel, The Talking Cure, will be available November 25th. Over the next few weeks I’d love to share my journey into this bit of fiction with you. I found the story by listening to one of The Big Cinch’s secondary characters, Violet Arwald Humphrey. Although Violet has a strong voice, I quickly found that readers were looking for Sean Joye, the protagonist of…

Pre-order The Talking Cure ebook now for November 25 delivery. Haunted woman claws her way back to reality by reconnecting with her magical powers in The Talking Cure. A supernatural Yuletide follow-up to The Big Cinch. Visit the Shop for links to stories. My new novel, The Talking Cure, will be available November 25th. Over the next few weeks I’d love to share my journey into this bit of fiction with you. I found this story, and my way back to it whenever I got sidetracked, through setting. The Talking Cure…

More things I need to say to myself. Visit the Shop for links to stories. (Images courtesy Missouri History Museum, Pixabay, and author's collection) The exciting news is that I have a new book coming out; my second novel in the Sean Joye Investigations series. The title is The Talking Cure. The more mundane news is that, as events have transpired, its book promo will be amidst getting my late mother’s house ready to sell and settling many pesky estate tasks. My plate brims like a Thanksgiving Day Chinet platter…

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A Sense for Memory Part Two by R.H. Stevens (Zircona Works, 2025) The can’t-miss-it sequel to A Sense for Memory Part One, Part Two plunges the reader through a wormhole into a new realm of intrigue, adventure, and action. Disclosure: I initially read this book as part of my business relationship with Independent Book Review. This review also appears on that website. A Sense for Memory's Characters In A Sense for Memory Part One the reader cheers on the exploits of a tough Rej-Jir soldier/cop, Commander Qwatajawa, as she investigates the theft of a mysterious and powerful artifact.