With a handful of exciting new releases hitting the shelves this Tuesday, a visit to your local bookstore promises to be well worth the trip. This week, you can look forward to THE SELECTED, Patrick Cave's prequel to SHARP NORTH; Jennifer Echols's FORGET YOU, about a girl who's usually retentive mind fails her when she gets involved in a car accident; THE FOOL'S GIRL, Celia Rees's
Stieg Larsson's Millennium books are EVERYWHERE, including the Bookreporter.com Facebook wall. Here's a roundup of Stieg links:
-An interesting article from the Wall Street Journal on the many designs of the cover for THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO...
Last week I mentioned that you could tell it's summer simply by looking at the bestseller lists and seeing all the mystery/suspense/thriller titles throughout. Be they spies, sleuths, lawyers, thugs or a crusading journalist from Sweden and his cyber-hacking sidekick, they're all on the list.
In today's post, Christina Baker Kline, author of BIRD IN HAND and THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE shares the joys of her two very different book clubs. If you're anything like me, you'd love to be a fly on the wall for the New York group!
The life of a writer isn't always easy, but penning YA novels definitely has its perks. Below, Simone Elkeles --- aut
What do you do if you start reading a book and then realize you’re not enjoying it?
July 16, 2010, 718 voters
July 16, 2010
Last week I gave you some of my report from ThrillerFest, one of my favorite industry events of the year. Steve Berry at the Thriller Awards ceremony on Saturday night called it “Summer Camp for Thriller Writers,” and he was not wrong. The lineup of authors was just stellar, and the information that was exchanged was just terrific. More about what they had to say in a bit. That evening Steve also shared news that he and four other leading thriller authors --- David Morrell, Douglas Preston, James Rollins and Andy Harp --- will visit U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf as part of a USO trip they’re calling Operation Thriller. They plan to meet troops, talk fiction, inspire and spread cheer, and most importantly, show their gratitude. They will start the trip at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. before embarking on the week-long tour. And, of course, they’re bringing lots of advance copies of their forthcoming books. We will be sure to get you news about this event as it unfolds.
Name up to three books you initially did not like, but ended up loving after you decided to read all the way to the end.
July 16, 2010
Joining us for today's If You Ask Me... Q&A are Jessica from Edmonton, AB and 19-year-old Ashley King from Lexington, KY. Read their answers below as they discuss everything from classics like PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and ANNE OF GREEN GABLES to current hits like The Hunger Games and Sarah Dessen's ALONG FOR THE RIDE.
