Switch places, careers, romances? Yes please. In this latest novel from Author Melody Carlson, we also chat about what it's like when you just can't seem to be content where God has you. Is it possible to be like the Apostle Paul and be "content in all things", or did that guy just need a big "good for you, Paul?"
Apr 02, 2024•18 min•Season 5Ep. 18
A look into the history of classical art and the WOMEN who helped to make our world beautiful. Plus! We chat about Erin Bartels latest release "The Lady With the Dark Hair". Join us!
Mar 28, 2024•24 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Steven James and your MadLit Musings podcast host, Jaime Jo Wright, sit down for a chat about story, theme, and should readers take anything away from a fictional story?
Mar 26, 2024•23 min•Season 5Ep. 16
Head into the wild west with CINDERELLA? Why yes! Karen Witemeyer takes us on ride with a fun, fairy tale retelling told in classic Witemeyer romantic style!
Mar 12, 2024•24 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Ever wonder what the 8 souls were thinking when they entered the ark and left the world as they knew it behind? Don't miss this intriguing chat with Author Jill Eileen Smith as we explore the story behind the Ark and the Great Flood.
Mar 05, 2024•26 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Join Jaime and Tracie as they shoot the breeze and even forget to sign off the podcast as they chat about everything under the western sun! It's doozy and filled with laughter. You won't want to miss it!
Mar 01, 2024•23 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Victorian era romance mixed with Steampunk and a zoo of adorable animals? Yes, please. Not to mention, a sense of quirky humor, a dash of intrigue, and you have a new and very original twist along the veins of Around the World in 80 Days. Join Jaime Jo Wright as she chats with Author Angela Bell on this delightfully geared adventure!
Feb 27, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 11
We go there! Come along with Tara Johnson and your MadLit Musings podcast host as we discuss specifically IRISH slavery, but also the ramifications of forgetting the past and the impacts it still has on story and truth today.
Feb 20, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 10
It sounds heavy, but Roseanna M. White incorporates some of the ugly of history while introducing a novel of espionage and romance too! Enter into the dark streets of 1909, as the privileged and underprivileged intersect!
Feb 15, 2024•29 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Villains, psychopaths, and the gradual slide into violence. What makes a villain tick? Is writing about one at all disturbing? Chat with Jaime Jo Wright and Patricia Bradley as they deep dive into her latest release and the villains that make her books tick.
Feb 13, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Jaime Jo Wright travels to other worlds with speculative author Cathy McCrumb. Find out more about this strange new place that has cats! And giant bugs! And so much more!
Feb 06, 2024•25 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Listen in as Jaime Jo Wright chats with Sarah Sundin about her latest WWII release! As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside. When German bombs set London ablaze, BBC radio correspondent Hugh Collingwood reports ...
Feb 06, 2024•25 min
Is there a place for trauma in fiction? And what about all the historical eras where trauma completely obliterated a people's way of life? Can fiction be too romantic or should trauma be represented differently? Join Jaime Jo Wright and Laura Frantz as they chat about her latest release "The Seamstress of Acadie" and fiction
Jan 30, 2024•35 min•Season 5Ep. 5
A WWII story about saving children that you may have never heard! Join us!
Jan 16, 2024•24 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Because it's streusel it's delicious, and this podcast takes a deep dive into heritage, the wisdom of the legacy left by our ancestors, and delightful recipes!
Jan 11, 2024•23 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Can you get throat shot and survive? Lynette Eason has all the answers and more to this chat about high octane romantic suspense and her latest release "Double Take". Listen, and don't look back!
Jan 09, 2024•17 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Okay, so maybe don't lie, but writing a whodunnit is all about every character hiding a lie, and owning it. Join Jaime Jo Wright as she chats with Author Erica Vetsch about Regency mysteries. Step back Jane Austen, there's another author in the manor. At least that's Jaime's pride and prejudice!
Jan 04, 2024•31 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Explore the romance and the merriment of Christmas and just good wholesome love stories for all year round! You can't go wrong with an Emily Conrad novel!
Dec 14, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 87
Have tea with Julie Klassen and and your host, Jaime Jo Wright, as she welcomes the Queen of inspirational Regency. Were the royals truly financially broke? What about that dead parrot? And a shirtless publisher wrapped in a towel? It's all clean, but it's all in there! Join us!
Dec 12, 2023•27 min•Season 4Ep. 86
A lot can go awry when Jaime Jo Wright and Bethany Turner get together. Talking rom-com and serial killers as well as the doctrine of baptism. What could go wrong with this podcast?
Dec 07, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 85
MadLit Musings has been HIJACKED this week! With Jaime Jo Wright busy making coffee, her teenage daughter Chloe along with the silly subterfuge of Pepper Basham, hijacked the podcast and are bringing all the ooey-gooey romantic chatter to this otherwise more well-balanced show . . . take a listen quick, before Jaime finds out!
Dec 05, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 84
Join Jaime Jo Wright and Leslie Gould as they not only discuss Leslie's latest release, but also how PTSD and mental health was explored and treated during WW2 as well as how it related to Nazi prisoners of war in America.
Nov 28, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 83
Hanging onto emotional trauma from high-school (lol!) and overcoming romantic and serious DISLIKE! Join Jaime Jo Wright as she chats with Sunrise Publishing author, Rachel D. Russell on her latest romantic release!
Nov 28, 2023•17 min•Season 4Ep. 82
What? We can't wear reds and emerald greens? Not in the Gilded Age. Stop by and listen to this humorous and entertaining chat with Author Jen Turano and Jaime Jo Wright!
Nov 21, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 81
Join Jaime Jo as she chats it up with 3 of 10 authors in a new Christmas Suspense novella collection out for a LIMITED TIME ONLY!
Nov 18, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 79
It's not an easy topic to discuss, but Angela Hunt so tenderly devotes her latest release to it and she and Jaime Jo take time to have a serious conversation about suicide, suicide prevention, and how it affects those in our lives.
Nov 17, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 80
What is better this time of year, than a Christmas suspense novella collection? Jaime Jo Wright sits down with Author Kendall Hoxsey to chat about her DEBUT release and all the twinkly and suspicious things inside!
Nov 17, 2023•30 min•Season 4Ep. 78
When Jaime Jo Wright sits down with Author Chris Fabry, they get real about the loss and grief of the silent and long goodbye that comes with Alzheimer's. They also discuss Fabry's new release. In Saving Grayson , bestselling and award-winning author Chris Fabry takes us into a world of love and loss, dementia and startling clarity, hope and despair. We shake our heads (and sometimes laugh) at Gray's crusty antics. We share his fear of what's to come. And we root for him and those who love him t...
Nov 09, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 77
Join Jaime Jo Wright on today's episode, as she remembers the Holocaust and the fight for survival and freedom in Poland with Author Amanda Barratt. Celebrating Amanda's new release, "The Warsaw Sisters", and a daring network of women risking their lives to shelter Jewish children.
Nov 07, 2023•20 min•Season 4Ep. 76
Just in time for spooky season comes the literary Gothic novel and all its delicious and wistful beauty from Author Kris Waldherr. Join your host, Jaime Jo Wright, as she chats about Kris's novel, "Unnatural Creatures" and story of the women of Frankenstein. A beautiful, melancholy read that is the perfect accompaniment o the classic novel!
Nov 02, 2023•24 min•Season 4Ep. 75