by editor | Jul 26, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, News + Features, Writing Inspiration, Writing Process
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 | Articles, Author Events, News + Features, Writing Process
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 12, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, News + Features
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, Author Interviews
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...
by editor | Mar 31, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, News + Features
By Jennifer Dwight The San Francisco Bay Area’s iconic book store, Book Passage, was the setting for many a teary eye one recent afternoon when Ariel Levy’s audience shared their deep connections with her new memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply (Random House 2017). Ms....
