Fatima Farheen Mirza on 'A Place for Us' and Sarah Jessica Parker

Posted on 07/16/2018 at 02:20 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Having a publisher take interest in your debut novel would be quite the thrill on its own. So having the publisher in qu...

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Shobha Rao discusses her debut novel "Girls Burn Brighter"

Posted on 07/07/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

"Girls Burn Brighter" author

Shobha Rao’s debut novel, Girls Burn Brighter, was Amazon Book Review’s pick for best book of March and one...

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Have Amazon Prime? Read these ebooks for free

Posted on 07/01/2018 at 10:00 AM by Jeffrey Bruner

A perk of Amazon Prime is members can read one of six Kindle ebooks for free. Here are the offerings for July: Crime fic...

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What it's like designing a "Harry Potter" cover

Posted on 06/29/2018 at 08:14 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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When illustrator Brian Selznick was asked to design the twentieth-anniversary covers for the Harry Potter series, his fi...

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Watch the trailer for “Beautiful Boy”

Posted on 06/30/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Amazon Studios posted the trailer for its upcoming movie Beautiful Boy on Wednesday. The film, based on the bestselling...

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Author Kristin Hannah on "The Great Alone"

Posted on 06/25/2018 at 04:58 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writer of "The Nightingale" and "The Great Alone"

Author Kristin Hannah followed up her smash hit The Nightingale with The Great Alone, which also made quite a splash. Am...

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Tatjana Soli discusses her inspiration for 'The Removes'

Posted on 06/23/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

New York Times bestselling author of "The Removes"

How would you react if your ordinary life fell apart overnight? That’s the world author Tatjana Soli most likes to...

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Interview with memoir writer Tara Westover

Posted on 06/21/2018 at 06:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writer of "Educated"

It's hard to imagine a young Tara Westover ever expecting Amazon to select something she'd written as the best b...

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The best books of 2018 (so far)

Posted on 06/19/2018 at 10:51 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Can’t wait until the year’s end for the best-of lists? Well, Amazon has a present for you! The Amazon Books...

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Interview with Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke

Posted on 06/14/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke

Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke has a lot on her plate. But somehow, she managed to find time to talk to Deadline abo...

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