by editor | Oct 17, 2017 | Articles, Author Events
By Jennifer Dwight Murder Under the Fig Tree, the second book in Kate Jessica Raphael‘s inestimable Palestine murder mystery series, has just been published by She Writes Press. Luan Strauss’s Laurel Book Store in downtown Oakland, CA, recently hosted a well-attended...
by editor | Jul 26, 2017 | Articles, Author Events
Barry Eisler, beloved and prodigious author of thrillers, celebrated the release of his thirteenth novel, Zero Sum, at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, CA recently. During the introduction, author Keith Raffel aptly compared Eisler to John le Carré for his...
by editor | Jun 20, 2017 | Author Events
By Jennifer Dwight Carolina De Robertis sat at her desk, overwhelmed by grief. President-elect Trump’s “victory” was only three days old. The probable ramifications of this dolorous event on all the hard-won civil rights gains of the past fifty years racked Carolina’s...
by editor | May 23, 2017 | Author Events
By Jennifer Dwight Book Passage in Marin County’s Corte Madera was the site for Amy S. Peele’s comic and compassionate introduction of her debut novel, Cut, to a crowd of nearly one hundred people last month. Standing-room-only is rare at any book launch, but Peele’s...
by editor | May 12, 2017 | Author Events
By Jennifer Dwight The tall and gracious Professor Emerita, Judith L. Newton, held the book launch celebration for her debut novel one recent evening at Books Inc. in Berkeley. The star of the evening was Oink, A Food for Thought Mystery (She Writes Press), the first...
by editor | Apr 24, 2017 | Articles, Author Events
By Jennifer Dwight | @jennifer_dwight Author and satirist, Ron Currie recently entertained his following with tales of his newly-released novel, The One-Eyed Man (Penguin Rand House 2017) and its curious protagonist, “K,” who is a sort of modern-day Diogenes. K., a...
