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From my Q&A with Will Shindler , author of The Bone Queen : A Novel : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?...

Featured at Writers Read: Maria Tureaud , author of This House Will Feed . Her entry begins: Since Gothic horror is having a “moment,” I’m...

Daniel Poppick is a poet and novelist. His debut novel is The Copywriter (2026). He is also the author of the poetry collections Fear of ...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Alphabet Sleuths by Laura Jensen Walker . The entry begins: “Claire Reynolds hadn’t planned to kill a...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic by Alice Echols . About the book, from the...

At People magazine senior books editor Lizz Schumer tagged ten inspiring and educational nonfiction books to read this Black History Month ...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: A Study in Secrets by Jeffrey Siger . About the novel, from the publisher: A retired gentleman with a compl...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Winning It Back: Restoration Presidents and the Cycle of American Politics by David A. Crockett . About the ...

Katie Moench is a librarian, runner, and lover of baked goods. A school librarian in the Upper Midwest, Moench lives with her husband and do...

Featured at Writers Read: Wendy Walker , author of Blade . Her entry begins: I love reading outside the thriller genre whenever I can. Whi...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Caribbean Blood Pacts: Guatemala and the Cold War Struggle for Freedom by Aaron Coy Moulton . About the book...

Leodora Darlington is a writer from London with Ghanaian heritage. She received a distinction for her Masters in Creative Writing from Brune...

From my Q&A with Janet Burroway , author of Simone in Pieces : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? Si...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Her Cold Justice (Keera Duggan) by Robert Dugoni . About the book, from the publisher: To save a client acc...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID by Emily Mendenhall . About the book, from the pub...

A self-proclaimed hopeless romantic, Braidee Otto combines her academic background in Literary Studies with a deep passion for storytelling...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Bone Queen : A Novel by Will Shindler . The entry begins: Before I wrote The Bone Queen , all of my no...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Rhodesia by Trishula Rachna Patel . About the book, from the pu...

Rebecca Fallon is a New England-born Londoner and a graduate of Williams College and the University of Oxford. Family Drama is her debut ...

Featured at Writers Read: S. J. Rozan , author of First Do No Harm : A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery . Her entry begins: I've just fin...

Angela Montoya has been obsessed with the magic of storytelling since she was a little girl. She hasn’t seen a day without a book in her ha...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Un-Americanism: A History of the Battle to Control an Idea by George Lewis . About the book, from the publis...