For Readers
If you’ve heard it exists and can’t find it, you should probably just go straight to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The latest item to be uncovered there? A letter from Tennessee Williams to Eugene O’Neill,...
Cathy Park Hong’s autobiographical essay collection is keeping its place in the spotlight this spring. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning won a National Book Critics Circle Award in March, and now, according to Deadline, it’...
The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week ending May 1, 2021. 1. Sooley, by John Grisham. 2. Finding Ashley, by Danielle Steel. 3. A Gambling Man, by David Baldacci. 4. Fu...
We have a release date for the final Inspector Montalbano novel. Author Andrea Camilleri, who died in July 2019, had written this final installment a few years before his death, with the intention that it not be released until he was no longer able t...
For Authors
The May 2021 edition of Desmond’s Drops is up on Writer Unboxed. This month’s topics are how to avoid cliched writing, why you should try reversing the action in a scene that isn’t working, and how to keep the narrative tension up i...
Not to be alarmist, but choosing the wrong categories for your book (or any product) on Amazon can have a fairly bad ripple effect. The more it’s recommended to people who aren’t interested in it, the more Amazon thinks no one wants to bu...
Thriller authors Connor and Mark Sullivan don’t expect every novel to have a life literally hanging in the balance. But, they say, elements of suspense and tension will benefit any genre of novel, because that’s what keeps readers turning...
Seeing a headline about the social media mistake that can damage your author platform might strike some fear into your heart. But in a way, it’s actually good news. Penny Sansevieri’s biggest no-no for authors on social media, as it turns...
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