Love Off-Script: The Surprising Romance Between a Star and a Single Mom with author Shelby Saville

Online For Authors Podcast · Apr 15, 2025 · 24m

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Shelby Saville, author of the book And They Had a Great Fall. Shelby resides in a suburb west of Chicago. Despite her city living, she’s a small-town girl at heart. She grew up in a town of 2000 people where she spent her teenage years at her typewriter late into the night. Her stories brought her to a world beyond the 1.6 square mile radius of her town.

Her first writing job was for the Lacon Home Journal, where she covered the news of the town. She particularly loved writing obituaries, taking great care to convey the life of someone’s…