Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

David Bell is the New York Times-bestselling author of sixteen novels including his most recents: TRY NOT TO BREATHE and SHE’S GONE. His work has been translated into numerous foreign languages, included on several bestseller lists, nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times, and, in 2013, won the prestigious Prix Polar International de Cognac for best crime novel by an international author. KILL ALL YOUR DARLINGS was also nominat...

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Rasheed Newson, television writer, producer, and author of My Government Means to Kill Me. Rasheed Newson is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he wrote movie reviews for the school newspaper, The Hoya. During his time in Washington, D.C., he also worked in the communication and media departments for several non-profit organizations, including the Coalition for Juvenile Ju...

Annie McDonnell asks Mike Eberhardt, audible narrator, voice over actor, and owner of Super Fun Studios, some fun questions! You'll also get to watch and listen as Mike "performs" several characters from one of the fantastic novels he's narrated.

Enjoy!

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Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Leslie Zemeckis, a best-selling author, actress, and an award-winning documentarian of Behind the Burly Q, which ran on Showtime, Bound by Flesh, debuted No. 5 on Netflix and the multi-award-winning Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer. Next up is her award-winning documentary Grandes Horizontales, about courtesans in Napoleon’s Second Empire. She is the author of three best-sellers: Behind ...

“I’ve come to love Suzie and her gloriously messy life, and her brother Ethan, and her friends Caesar and Frankie, and her Uncle Gavin. Even Wilson the dog…”

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Christopher Swann, author of the Faulkner Family series

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Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Richard Mirabella. Richard Mirabella is a writer and civil servant living in Upstate New York. His stories have appeared in Story Magazine, American Short Fiction, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. He's the author of the novel Brother & Sister Enter the Forest.

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"Mandy Haynes has written two short story collections with both smart and entertaining storytelling. The moment you open these books you have to read until the end. Each story leads you into another exciting one to read. It’s her voice! Mandy is original, she doesn’t let go of that Southern charm that had me at hello. It’s hers and hers alone. The first book “Walking the Wrong Way Home” and the second, “Sharp as a Serpent's Tooth -...

Lesley Kagen is an actress, sought-after speaker, and award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of nine novels. Whistling in the Dark (2007), Land of a Hundred Wonders (2008), Tomorrow River (2010), Good Graces (2011), Mare's Nest (2012), The Resurrection of Tess Blessing (2014), The Undertaking of Tessla (2014), The Mutual Admiration Society (2017), and Every Now and Then (2020).

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Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Steven Rowley, author of The Celebrants, and Byron Lane, author of Big Gay Wedding. Steven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR and Esquire Magazine as one of the Best Books of 2019, and The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for 2021 Novel of the Year and winner of The 22nd Thurber Prize f...