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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Armed Guests: Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing by Sebastian Schmidt . About the book , fro...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: They Never Learn by Layne Fargo . The entry begins: I always “cast” every character in my novels before I s...

Kara Brand is a recent graduate of Lafayette College, where she studied Government and Law and worked for her college’s Writing Program and ...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Shed No Tears : A Novel by Caz Frear . About the book , from the publisher: Four victims. Killer caught. Case...

David Leavitt's fiction has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the LA Times Fi...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age (Literature Now) by Jessica Pressman . About the book , from the...

From my Q&A with Karen Brooks , author of  The Lady Brewer of London : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? ...

Stephen Miller was a regular contributor to Mystery News, writing the “In the Beginning” column about new crime-fiction writers for several ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life by William Ian Miller . About the book , from the p...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Three Mrs. Wrights : A Novel by Linda Keir . About the book , from the publisher: Mr. Wright has everythi...

Kelly Conaboy is a writer living in Brooklyn. She was most recently a writer-at-large at New York Magazine ’s The Cut. Before that she was ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright . About the bo...

From my Q&A with Darcie Wilde , author of  A Lady Compromised : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? Like th...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Dead Season by Tessa Wegert . The entry begins: I don’t typically pin photos of actors on my wall or p...

Michael J. Seidlinger is a Filipino American author of My Pet Serial Killer , Dreams of Being , The Fun We’ve Had , and nine other books. ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Consumer Citizen by Ethan Porter . About the book , from the publisher: Citizens are asked to buy, and ...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: This Virtual Night by C.S. Friedman . About the book , from the publisher: Returning to the universe of New...

Les Edgerton is the author of more than twenty books including the newly released Hard Times , as well as numerous short stories and screen...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943 by John Gooch . About the book , fro...

From my Q&A with Andrea J. Johnson , author of  Poetic Justice : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? The ti...