“Her espionage novels have sold millions of copies, and they all start with one unbreakable rule: the conspiracy has to be believable. That’s not hard.” Thousands of Americans believe in conspiracy theories, and Gayle Lynds loves to write about them. Read, or watch, her interview with CBS Sunday Morning here to find out more about […]
Read moreHilary Davidson’s “My Side of the Matter” (from Killing Malmon) has won an Anthony Award for Best Short Story! Congrats, Hilary! See the full list of nominees and winners here.
Read moreWe are thrilled to announce that Gregg Hurwitz has won the 2018 ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult Novel for THE RAINS! Congrats, Gregg! See the full list of nominees and winners here.
Read more“That’s what crime is…crime is people being ripped from the world.” Tom Rob Smith (THE FARM, CHILD 44) speaks with the New York Times about writing for the TV show The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. He talks about exploring not only the loss of Gianni Versace and the other victims of Andrew […]
Read more“With large-scale recoding, you have to wonder whether new and improved genomes would make us someone different altogether.” Our own David Ewing Duncan learns how to live forever after speaking with George Church, a geneticist who studies DNA. Duncan describes how Church experiments with recoding and synthesizing DNA in various organisms, including humans, so that […]
Read moreRenee Shafransky takes the #1 slot for her debut novel, TIPS FOR LIVING, and Ann Howard Creel lands the #3 spot for her novel, THE WHISKEY SEA. See full list here
Read more“Dear Mr. Disney”— That’s how a 10-year-old girl named Catherine began her letter to the most powerful man in movies during the bitter, final months of 1963. She had experienced that year’s traumas like most children do, through the anxious whispers of adults, despair moving a few feet above her head. She wanted to tell […]
Read moreIf you’ve been hankering for the latest and greatest in Southwest reading, your wait is over. Southwest Books of the Year is back with the finest regional books of 2017, hot off the press and ready for you to sample. Look for them in your local library soon. As they have for more than 40 […]
Read moreNora Glasser, the plucky narrator of Shafransky’s assured first novel, leaves New York City for the Long Island town of Pequod after her marriage to famous painter Hugh Walker ends bitterly. More than two years later, she’s established herself in the community, writing a humorous column, “Tips for Living,” for the local paper. Then Hugh […]
Read moreFeaturing what is definitely Hallmark’s most wonderful cast to date — Dermot Mulroney, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Joan Cusack and Danny Glover — The Christmas Train is based on David Baldacci’s best-selling novel of the same name. Dermot stars as a jaded journalist named Tom who is traveling by train from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles. Along […]
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