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 [...]
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; [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Okay, so Alison Pace is my kinda girl. Not only does she have a literary soundtrack for her new novel, Pug Hill; she’s actually created a Pug Hill imix on itunes (and she’s not afraid to include Rod Stewart and The Cure on the same playlist). If you like the tunes you see below, just [...]
Touring this week on the Girlfriends Cyber Circuit is Alison Pace, whose new novel, Pug Hill, takes a stab at the inner circle of the canine elite.
from the jacket:
For Hope McNeill, pugs are love, unconditional friendship, happiness, and freedom-all qualities currently in short supply in her own life. Though she doesn’t have a pug [...]
when you could be having coffee, sex, or a nice hike through the Marin Headlands? And why the hell am I writing it? In the Annals of the Obvious, CNN reports that some people are, um, addicted to the internet, and the addiction is “adversely affecting their lives and their family’s lives.” Ahem, have you [...]
Ed has put up the Bat Segundo podcast of the May Queen panel, with editor Nicki Richesin and contributors Meghan Daum, Erin Ergenbright, Kimberly Askew, Heather Juergensen, and yours truly.
I also saw on Ed’s blog and elsewhere that Steve Almond has written an open letter to William P. Leahy, president of Boston College, in [...]
Tonight at the Booksmith on Haight, Susan Steinberg will read from her story collection Hydroplane. See my review here
note on disappearing comments: I’ve been getting about a zillion spamments lately. If your perfectly legitimate comment has disappeared, my apologies! I recently made a “catch this” list which may accidentally delete good comments. I’ll try to [...]
