Todays guest author, Tamar Cohen, comes from London, and is the author of The Mistress’s Revenge. She has published nine non-fiction titles and written for The …
first novels
Jamie Ford: Call in Sick More Often
I've been immersed in writing and remiss about organizing 1st Books, so this week, to kick off National Reading Group Month, I'm rerunning one of my favorite …
Tracy Seeley: Sailing this Book into the Wind
Tracy Seeley is a bay area writer-pal, whose memoir, My Ruby Slippers (released this spring from University of Nebraska's Bison Books), was called “elegiac, …
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Alma Katsu: From Writer to Spy to Writer
I'm delighted to be hosting Alma Katsu, whose debut novel, The Taker, is just out this week. Booklist calls it, "An imaginative, wholly original debut" and says …
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Kristina Riggle: Crazy Finally Worked
"Since I wasn’t getting published, I reasoned, and this outcome might be no different, I might as well enjoy the process." That's the approach this …
Eleanor Brown: When Your First Book Is Not Your First
I'm just thrilled this week to welcome Eleanor Brown, author of Weird Sisters, to 1st Books (and very excited we'll be participating in the Gaithersburg Book …
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