Bridget Kinsella reports in Publishers Weekly today on a contest Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park is running to kick off its new Mystery and Mayhem reading series. The series will begin this Thursday with Barry Eisler, author of The Last Assassin. …the customer who has bought the most books during the week leading up to the event will have his or her name appear as a character in the author’s next John Rain mystery. The contest is part of the Menlo Park, Calif. independent’s revitalization plan that started last fall when the store reopened.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
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Leo Cuellar recently interviewed me for Mary. We talked about process, making the move from writing short stories to novels and vice versa, and research, among other things. My favorite question of Leo’s and one I’ve never been asked before was: Can you say something about what your new novel is about without mentioning characters; just setting, feeling/idea(s) and comparisons to other works of art? I’ll mention Nick Cave’s album “The Boatman’s Call”, in particular a song called “Brompton Oratory”. The original title of the novel, A Little Bit Later, is from a Wilco song. I’ll also mention the...
Shanna Swendson’s Literary Soundtrack
Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit member Shanna Swendson stopped by to reveal her literary soundtrack for Once Upon Stilettos, just out from Ballantine. Read more about the book at Shanna’s website or on her blog. I don’t usually listen to music when I’m actually writing because I find it too distracting, but I do often make a “soundtrack” of songs that remind me of elements in the book that I listen to when I’m not actually writing to help stir my brain. Some songs from this book’s soundtrack include: “Under Your Spell” from the Once More With Feeling (the Buffy musical)...
bat segundo #41, & the dwight shrute bobblehead
Ed Champion interviews Carrie A.A. Frye and Yannick Murphy. Also, the new of Gulf Coast is now out. A meaty, 280-page affair featuring, among other things, a review of Holiday Reinhorn’s story collection Big Cats. She was one of twelve of us living in the fellows’ house at Sewanee about three years ago. Good writer, and how often do you meet an author who can claim that her husband has his own notorious bobblehead?
America’s Report Card
We’re pleased to report that John McNally follows The Book of Ralph with a new novel, America’s Report Card, which “takes on domestic espionage, the American school system, and the mutative nature of love.” The book will be released by Free Press in July. Advance praise for America’s Report Card: “At last – a post 9/11 novel with imagination, guts and integrity, and one that actually shows real people being sucked into the American nightmare. John McNally is a marvelous writer and should be applauded for producing this timely, stylish and often hilarious book.” Irvine Welsh, author of TRAINSPOTTING...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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