Winner of the 2025 American Writing Awards Podcast of the Year in Fiction and the 2024 Positive Change Podcast Awards for Best Host and Best Book Podcast. Tune in to be introduced to new and upcoming authors in a wide variety of fiction genres – from historical to fantasy to mystery to thriller to romance – as well as inspirational memoirs.
Online for Authors is the only podcast with a host that personally reads and reviews indie-written fiction and inspirational/memoirs for avid readers who want to add books for their TBR beyond what they can find on the NYT best sellers list. As an award-winning host, Teri M Brown’s goal for Online for Authors is to introduce avid readers to characters they’d like to invite to lunch. If you read more than 40 books per year and want to veer away from the NYT Best Seller’s List or want to expand beyond your preferred genre, Online for Authors can help you discover novels written by Indie-Authors to add to your to-be-read list.
Teri M Brown is an author of character-driven fiction and lives for the moments her characters speak their stories to her. Recognizing that other authors also have interesting lives and reasons for writing, Teri uses Online for Authors as a space for these authors to shine. Avid readers listening to Online for Authors will have the opportunity to discover new authors, amazing characters, and “can’t stop reading” stories.
If you are looking for the next book on your “to be read” pile, then this is the podcast for you. Listen as authors discuss their latest work (no spoilers!), the impetus behind the storyline, how/where/why they write, what’s coming up next, and more! These conversations are in-depth because, unlike many hosts, Teri takes the time to read and review each novel before interviewing her guests. She believes that by doing so, she can guarantee a good fit for her audience as well as an interesting and inquisitive interview.
Additionally, the first Saturday of each month, Teri releases what she affectionately calls OFAU – Online for Authors University. These once-monthly episodes feature writing tips for authors in all stages of their careers and speaks directly to her desire to mentor others. Whether someone wants to know about editing, marketing, book awards, being a guest on a podcast, or how notebooking can help you overcome writer’s block, writers and aspiring writers will find useful tips to move their writing to the next level.
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My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Lana McAra, author of the book Tara’s Dilemma. Lana McAra builds career authors. She is an award-winning, bestselling author and ghostwriter of more than 50 books with over one million copies sold. Founder of Vendela Publishing, she works with writers who want to build long-term careers and reach readers beyond the algorithm. Lana has spent more than two decades teaching fiction writing and speaking to writers about the business of publishing. She is a professional editor, book coach, and ghostwriter.
Lana has won the national Christy Award, The Literary Titan Silver Book Award, The Book Excellence Award, and a 5-Star rating at Reader’s Favorite for her historical novel Reaping the Whirlwind by Rosey Dow. She won the Global Book Award and took 3rd place in the BookFest Award for The Englewood Medium, and she won the Silver Royal Palm Literary Award for her book, How to Write a Novel That Sells. Her mystery series, Colorado, sold more than 250,000 copies.
In my book review, I stated Tara’s Dilemma is a romance by Lana McAra. If you love a good romance, this one fills the spot. Tara is in dire need. Her brother is deathly ill, her parents are dead, the Civil War took her wealth and position in life, and she has nowhere to turn.
Then, Mark Chambers puts a help wanted ad in the paper that changes everything. Tara finds herself in a fake marriage and headed to Colorado.
Of course, no story is without its villian. And it is this villian that might ruin Tara’s plan for her brother – and eventually, her hope for herself.
The story was enjoyable, filled with twists and turns, and a blossoming affection that Tara is sure not returned. Will her brother get well? Will Mark keep his land? Will Tara ever know true love? Read it to find out!
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