Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Ginny Kubitz Moyer!
Writes:
To me, historical fiction is the closest thing to time travel. I adore writing novels that capture the unique flavor of a particular time and place, and it’s a joy to take readers with me into the past. A GOLDEN LIFE moves from Hollywood in 1938 to the Napa Valley, immersing readers in the clothing, design, music, and movies of the era. It’s the story of Frances, a secretary for a movie studio, who takes a trip with her boss to find a reclusive ninety-year-old stage actress whose life is the subject of their upcoming film. Emotional journeys ensue, for everyone involved.
About:
I’m a California native who is fascinated by the history of my home state. It doesn’t show up very often in historical fiction, so I’m doing what I can to change that! My first novel, The Seeing Garden, takes place on a grand estate on the San Francisco Peninsula in 1910, and my new novel, A Golden Life, moves from southern California up north. In addition to historical fiction, I love dogs, rose gardens (actually, any kind of garden), vintage book covers, day hikes, coffee in the morning and black tea the rest of the day. One of my life goals? To have a library with floor-to-ceiling shelves, so I’ll never run out of book storage space (a girl can dream…).
I’m looking for a reader who loves:
- Black-and-white movies and classic stars like Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Hepburn
- Immersive settings, from the glamour and grit of a Hollywood studio to the golden hillsides of the Napa Valley
- Snappy dialogue that propels the story forward
- Road trips that change people’s lives
- Ninety-year-old women with strength and steel and wisdom
- An unlikely romance that grows slowly over time until it can’t be ignored anymore
- An ending that leaves you feeling hopeful about humanity
What to expect if we're compatible:
- Novels that whisk you back into the 1910s, the 1930s, or the 1940s.
- Heroines who go on journeys of love, loss, friendship, forgiveness, self-discovery - all those things that make us human
- Fascinating, complex relationships that crackle on the page. To me, nothing is more suspenseful than the interplay between humans with conflicting desires.
- Iconic California settings, whether it’s old Hollywood or World War II San Francisco
- Slow-burn love stories
- Supporting characters with their own complex and vibrant personalities (there’s no such thing as a minor character!)
Embark on a journey to 1930s California in Ginny Kubitz Moyer’s spellbinding historical novel in which a woman must choose between friendship and her own secrets.
It’s 1938, and twenty-five-year-old secretary Frances Healey is ready for a fresh start. Hoping to forget her painful past, she takes a job working for Hollywood producer Lawrence Merrill. She quickly becomes absorbed in VistaGlen Studios’s biggest project: a movie about Kitty Ridley, the legendary stage actress who disappeared from the public eye in 1895. The movie will be the making of Belinda Vail, a beautiful ingenue who is hungry for a breakout role—and also happens to be Mr. Merrill’s love interest.
But the real Miss Ridley has other ideas. Now ninety years old, she writes a scathing letter insisting the studio halt production of the film. Hoping to change her mind, Frances and Mr. Merrill embark on a trip to find the actress—only to land in a Victorian farmhouse in the Napa Valley. But as she learns the truth of Miss Ridley’s life, Frances finds herself confronting the very past she’s been trying to forget. And with the arrival of the ambitious Belinda, loyalties will be tested, bonds will be forged, and Frances will learn where true happiness lies. Set in Hollywood and the sun-drenched Napa countryside, A Golden Life explores friendship, forgiveness, and the power of honoring your own story.
Women's Fiction | Historical [She Writes Press, On Sale: September 24, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781647427221 / eISBN: 9781647427238]
Ginny Kubitz Moyer is a California native with a love of local history. Her novel The Seeing Garden, which won Silver in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for historical fiction, brings to life the vanished world of the San Francisco Bay Area's great estates. Her novel A Golden Life, which earned a starred Kirkus review, takes place in Hollywood and the Napa Valley in 1938. An avid weekend gardener, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two sons, and one rescue dog. Learn more at her website.
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