Today’s guest has a brand-new book out, with one of my favorite historical fiction covers in recent memory. You know how so many of the women on the covers of historical novels are turned away from the viewer? THE LAST BATHING BEAUTY is facing us head on, and she makes an impact. (You can see her for yourself by clicking over to Amy’s site here.)

Amy Sue Nathan’s new novel THE LAST BATHING BEAUTY is now available from Lake Union Press. LEFT TO CHANCE, THE GLASS WIVES, and THE GOOD NEIGHBOR were published by St. Martin’s Press, and available at your favorite online or brick-and-mortar bookstore. She’s been blogging since 2006, and launched the Women’s Fiction Writers blog in March 2011. She teaches writing workshops and freelance as a fiction editor and writing coach and is trained in the Story Genius method. Her stories and essays have appeared in print and online in over two dozen publications such as The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Parent, Writer’s Digest, Huffington Post, and online in New York Times and Washington Post blogs.

Amy’s #read99women recommendation is MR. AND MRS. AMERICAN PIE by Juliet McDaniel, “an often-hilarious and always-poignant portrait of the late sixties where the main character, Maxine, is faced with building a life away from posh Palm Springs, which is where she is finally able to learn her true value. This book sheds glowing light on unconventional families and being true to oneself at a time when many still thought both were bad ideas. But not Maxine!”