I'm SO delighted to host Melanie Benjamin this week - not just because she's got a new book publishing this week, The Aviator's Wife, which I am already …
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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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Sarah Pekkanen: A Glass of Wine and a Little Courage
I'm having a nice little Gaithersburg Book Festival run lately, hosting Caroline Leavitt in January, Eleanor Brown in February, and now Sarah Pekkanen in March. …
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How Authors Can Get Bookscan Numbers
In case any authors out there don't already know it, you can get the Neilson Bookscan numbers for your books through Author Central on Amazon. I'll confess to …
On Slush Piles and Finding Agents
This photo of the decidedly undaunting St. Martin's slush pile (the bottom shelf), which Frances Dinklespiel posted about on her wonderful blog, Ghost Word, got …