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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London  by Mary K. Bercaw Edw...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Seven Perfect Things : A Novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde . About the book , from the publisher: Thirteen-year-ol...

Ailsa McFarlane was born in 1997 in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Snowdonia in the United Kingdom. After leaving school, she studied v...

From my Q&A with Gian Sardar , author of  Take What You Can Carry : A Novel : How much work does your title do to take readers into the ...

Sarah Pinsker is the author of over fifty works of short fiction, including the novelette "Our Lady of the Open Road," winner of ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career by Patricia Fara . About the book , from the publisher:...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Mary Jane : A Novel by Jessica Anya Blau . About the book , from the publisher: Almost Famous meets Daisy Jo...

From my Q&A with Linda L. Richards , author of  Endings : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? This book is...

Saul A. Lelchuk holds a B.A. in English from Amherst College and a master's degree from Dartmouth College. He divides his time between ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Charles Seife . About the book , from the publishe...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Jungle Up by Nick Pirog . About the book, from the publisher: “Please find me, Thomas! Please!” Two years a...

Anjali Enjeti is a former attorney, organizer, and award-winning journalist based near Atlanta. A graduate of Duke University, Washington ...

From my Q&A with Gin Phillips , author of  Family Law : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? This is my six...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman . About the book, f...

Kate Lister is a lecturer in the School of Arts and Communication at Leeds Trinity University. She is the author of A Curious History of Se...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler . About the book , from the publisher: Dahlia Adler's Cool for the ...

From my Q&A with Lynn Painter , author of  Better Than the Movies : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? T...

Audrey Blake has a split personality-- because she is the creative alter ego of Regina Sirois and Jaima Fixsen, two authors who met online ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War Against Japan by Steven Casey . About the book , from the p...

Jennifer Saint grew up reading Greek mythology and was always drawn to the untold stories hidden within the myths. After thirteen years as ...