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Jody Gehrman is a native of Northern California, where she can be found writing, teaching, reading, or obsessing over her three cats most...

From my Q&A with Darin Strauss , author of The Queen of Tuesday : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? Tou...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Wright Sister : A Novel by Patty Dann . About the book , from the publisher: An epistolary novel of hist...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Tyranny of Greed: Trump, Corruption, and the Revolution to Come by Timothy K. Kuhner . About the book , from...

Jude Cook is the author of Byron Easy , which was published by Heinemann in 2013. He writes for the Guardian , The Spectator , Literary Rev...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: You're Next by Kylie Schachte . The entry begins: You’re Next is about sixteen-year-old detective Flo...

Johnny Shaw ’s novels have been set in the California settings of Indio, Calexico, Thermal, Holtville, Blythe, El Centro, Plaster City, and ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: #HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice by Ronald Niezen . About the book...

Matt Haig is an author for children and adults. His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive was a number one bestseller, staying in the British top t...

From my Q&A with Celia Rees , author of Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook : A Novel : How much work does your title do to take readers...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Monsters We Make : A Novel by Kali White . About the book , from the publisher: For fans of Rene Denfeld...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: A Desperate Place : A McKenna and Riggs novel by Jennifer Greer . The entry begins: When I wrote A Desperate...

Karolina Waclawiak is the author of the novels How to Get into the Twin Palms , The Invaders , and Life Events . At The Week magazine she...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line by Michael Kagan . About the book , from ...

From my Q&A with Patty Dann , author of The Wright Sister : What non-literary inspirations have influenced your writing? I am very i...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Mirage by Julie E. Czerneda . About the book , from the publisher: The second book in the Web Shifter’s Lib...

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, as well as a founding ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Misplacing Ogden, Utah: Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations by Pepper Glass ....

Kate Reed Petty 's new novel is True Story . At CrimeReads she tagged " seven thrillers that go behind the camera to expose what t...

From my Q&A with Kali White , author of The Monsters We Make : A Novel : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story...