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Mary Lisa Gavenas on Mary Kay Ash, Direct Selling, and Building a $2 Billion Empire
Mary Kay Ash built a $2 billion cosmetics empire out of a 500 square foot Dallas storefront. She was the first woman ever to chair a company on the New York Stock Exchange and the only woman included…
EP. 48 Libby Page on Grief, Book Suggestions, and Writing This Book Made Me Think of You
A grieving young widow receives a phone call on her birthday. Her husband, Joe, died five months earlier. But before he did, he arranged something extraordinary: a year’s worth of books, one for…
EP. 47 Grant Ginder | So Old, So Young | The Tiny Decisions That Became Their Lives
Today I’m speaking with Grant Ginder about his latest novel, So Old, So Young. I feel like I really get millennials and their anxiety-driven yet somehow still hopeful character. The book follows six…
EP. 46 Allison Pataki on It Girl: Before Taylor Swift, There Was Evelyn Nesbit
What do Taylor Swift, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna and a teenage girl from Pittsburgh in 1900 all have in common? More than you’d think.In this episode of Elena Meets the Author, I’m talking to New York…
EP. 45 Allegra Goodman on This Is Not About Us: Apple Cake, Sisterhood, and the Rubinstein Family
It all starts with a squabble over an apple cake. When one sister bakes a much better cake than the other, the estrangement that follows ripples across three generations of the Rubinstein family for…
EP. 44 Filling the Blank Space After Loss: Jason Rosenthal on My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
Today I am speaking to Jason Rosenthal, whose memoir, My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, is a story of true love, true loss, and how to truly live again after that loss.It all began with an…
EP. 43 Robert Dugoni on The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, Faith, and Writing Stories That Stay With Readers
In this episode of Elena Meets the Author, I speak with critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Amazon bestselling author Robert Dugoni, whose books have sold…
EP. 42 Haley Cohen Gilliland on A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Today I’m speaking to the remarkable author and journalist Haley Cohen Gilliland, whose nonfiction book A Flower Traveled in My Blood reads like a novel, but is entirely true.Haley’s book - which The…
EP.41 Brigitte Dale and the Courageous Suffragettes: A Conversation on The Good Daughters
Today, I’m speaking to Brigitte Dale about her debut novel, The Good Daughters. It is a powerful, beautifully written story that takes us back to early 20th-century England, when women from all…
EP. 40 Unveiling The Trade-Off with Samantha Greene Woodruff
In this episode of Elena Meets the Author, I’m joined by the talented Samantha Greene Woodruff to talk about her gripping historical novel The Trade-Off.Set against the backdrop of the 1929 Wall…
EP. 39 Exploring 'All That Life Can Afford' with Emily Everett
In this new episode of Elena Meets the Author, I’m joined by debut American novelist Emily Everett to talk about her novel All That Life Can Afford.We talk about how Emily’s own experiences shaped…
EP. 38 Inside an Independent Bookstore with Lisa Scully of Locust Valley Books
In this special holiday episode of Elena Meets the Author, I’m joined by Lisa Scully, the owner of the wonderful Locust Valley Bookstore on Long Island.Lisa shares her journey into independent…
EP. 37 Unveiling the Feather Detective: A Journey into Forensic Ornithology with Author Chris Sweeney
New episode out now! In episode 37 of Elena Meets the Author, I speak with award-winning journalist and debut biographer Chris Sweeney about his fascinating new book, The Feather Detective: Mystery,…
EP.36 Unveiling Hidden Histories: A Conversation with Fiona Davis on The Stolen Queen
In this episode of Elena Meets the Author, I talk to the brilliant and bestselling author Fiona Davis about her new novel The Stolen Queen, a dual-timeline mystery that moves between 1936 Egypt and…
EP.35 Exploring Comic Tragedies with Debut Author Katie Yee
In this episode of Elena Meets the Author, I had such a fun and fascinating chat with Katie Yee, the debut author of Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar. Her novel has been compared to Nora…
EP.34 Exploring Humor in Tragedy with Annie Hartnett
In this episode, I sit down with Annie Hartnett, the bestselling author of The Road to Tender Hearts, to talk about finding humour in heartbreak and the power of storytelling to carry us through…
EP.33 Letters, Life, and Literary Magic with Virginia Evans
This week I’m joined by the wonderful Virginia Evans, whose debut novel The Correspondent captured my heart. And I don’t say that lightly. Her main character 73-year-old Sybil Van Antwerp is the…
EP.32 Elena Meets the Publisher: A Conversation with Gretchen Young
I am so excited to share this episode of Elena Meets the Author with you! I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Gretchen Young, a powerhouse in publishing and the inspiring founder of…
EP.31 Exploring Vanessa Beaumont's The Other Side of Paradise
In this episode of Elena Meets the Author, I sit down with debut novelist Vanessa Beaumont to talk about her evocative and richly layered novel, The Other Side of Paradise. Set in post–World War I…
EP.30 Elena Meets the Bookshop Owner: A Conversation with Diane Garrett
In this special episode of Elena Meets the Author, I step away from my usual author interviews to chat with Diane Garrett, the warm and wonderful owner of Diane’s Books in Greenwich, Connecticut.…
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