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May 14, 2004

May 14, 2004

I work home in New Jersey on Fridays (no Jersey jokes please). It's easier for me to write here and I have an aversion to New York traffic on a Friday when everyone in the city seems to head out to their country house. Usually this is the day that every lawn service picks to mow. The entire day is punctuated with vrooooooom of the mower, which they drive like we are at Indy, and the edging tools. (We mow our own lawn these days.) Today my neighbor decided to thin the trees on his property. After 6 hours of chainsaws and chipping, I have decided I like the lawn guys better. At least they leave faster!

Interview: Marian Keyes, author of The Other Side of the Story

May 7, 2004

May 7, 2004

Bookreporter.com contributing writer Bethanne Kelly Patrick talks to Marian Keyes, whose latest novel THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY introduces readers to three women who each encounter problems with the men in their lives. Keyes discusses why she chose to write a book about the publishing industry, her thoughts on the Chick Lit genre and her involvement in a Russian children's orphanage.

Interview: Rick Riordan, author of Southtown

May 7, 2004

May 7, 2004

Bookreporter.com's Carol Fitzgerald and Wiley Saichek talk to Rick Riordan about SOUTHTOWN, his fifth novel featuring private investigator Tres Navarre. Riordan shares details concerning the writing of the book, provides background information on the series' protagonist and reveals how his students (Riordan is also a middle-school English teacher) react to his "other" job.

May 7, 2004

This week our lineup has five interviews. The first is with Rick Riordan, the author of SOUTHTOWN, who is one of our suspense/thriller authors. Bethanne Patrick interviewed Marian Keyes where she talks about THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY. Ridley Pearson shared an interview with us where he talks about THE BODY OF DAVID HAYES. And we have interviews with two debut authors who I am just wild about, Katherine Leiner, who wrote DIGGING OUT and Carl Lennertz, whose CURSED BY A HAPPY CHILDHOOD hit stores this week.

May 2004

This newsletter arrives in your mailboxes a tad later than usual again this month. We needed a few extra days to make some of the changes that were suggested last month when a group of you "test drove" our Register Your Group form. To those of you who replied, thanks for your ideas and suggestions. We are ready to start registering groups. You can click on the link below to Register YOUR Group. In the months to come registered groups will be eligible for special book prizes and other offerings, so sign up now!

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Interview: Lauren Kelly, author of Take Me, Take Me With You

Apr 30, 2004

April 30, 2004

Lauren Kelly, author of TAKE ME, TAKE ME WITH YOU, talks to Wiley Saichek and Carol Fitzgerald from Bookreporter.com. She shares insight into the writing of the book, as well as why this novel is being written under a pseudonym (and shares another pseudonym as well).

Interview: Clinton McKinzie, author of Crossing the Line

Apr 30, 2004

April 30, 2004

Clinton McKinzie, author of CROSSING THE LINE, talks to Bookreporter.com's Suspense/Thriller Author Spotlight Team (Carol Fitzgerald, Joe Hartlaub and Wiley Saichek). He explains how his extensive background in law enforcement aided him in writing the book and discusses his passion for rock climbing, which has been incorporated into his novels.