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Frank Peretti: The Father of Christian Fiction Doesn’t Want to Look Back
Frank Peretti is known for his Christian supernatural thrillers, but is headed in new direction.
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A Portrait of the Artist: Betsy Franco
Betsy Franco—and let’s get it out of the way right here: she’s the mother of actor, writer, and polymath James Franco—was in New York City for three days this May presenting her debut adult novel, Naked (Tyrus, Oct.), at BookExpo America, where she signed 150 galleys for booksellers in a 30-minute autographing session.
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The Contemplating Stone: Robert Stone
Robert Stone published his first book, A Hall of Mirrors, in 1967.
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Crouch Plays Bird: Stanley Crouch
For much of the last 40 years, Stanley Crouch, the Los Angeles–born, New York–based author and journalist, has been writing about jazz, race, politics, and culture.
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For the Love of Language and Landscape: Paul Lynch
Paul Lynch is from the small town of Carndonough on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland.
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Looking Back and Moving On: Delia Ephron
Delia Ephron has a pedigree.
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‘Fifty Shades of Tan’: Amy Tan
Amy Tan jokingly refers to her forthcoming novel, The Valley of Amazement (Ecco, November) as “Fifty Shades of Tan”; it’s the first of her books to include sex scenes. Given the novel’s subject matter, she didn’t have much of a choice. Over the course of more than two decades and almost 590 pages, Tan follows the lives of a group of courtesans in early-20th-century Shanghai, set against the backdrop of a changing world.
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Newman’s Own: Kim Newman
“All our lives, we’ve known about the vampires, if only from books and movies. Los Angeles was the last place they were likely to settle. After all, California is known for its sunshine....”
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Amazing Grace: Amanda Lindhout
In 2008, while reporting in Somalia, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped for ransom by a group of insurgents and held prisoner for 460 days.
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A Comic Book for Social Justice: John Lewis
John Lewis says of the protest he helped lead against racial discrimination in Nashville in 1960, “[About 80] of us were arrested for sitting in at a lunch counter at a Woolworth’s store. We were denied service. And that arrest made me more committed, more determined to bring down those signs that said ‘White Waiting,’ ‘Colored Waiting.’ ”
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Questioning 'Reality': A.S. King
The Printz Honor-winner's fifth novel, Reality Boy, looks at the unwitting stars of unscripted television – the children whose family lives are broadcast to the world.
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First Fiction 2013: American Gothic - Ryan Bartelmay
“It took me every ounce of 10 years to write this book,” says Ryan Bartelmay, author of Onward Toward What We’re Going Toward.
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First Fiction 2013: In Cold Blood - Hannah Kent
Hannah Kent was a 17-year-old exchange student in Iceland when she first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last person to be executed in that country before the death penalty was abolished in 1928.
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First Fiction 2013: Welcome To the Future - Samantha Shannon
One can only imagine how daunting it would be to embark on the writing of a seven-part series, especially one set in the secret cell of a criminal underworld in the year 2059.
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First Fiction 2013: A Natural Storyteller - Abby Geni
Abby Geni’s credentials are impressive enough to catch any editor’s eye: graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, winner of the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, and was listed in 2010 Best American Short Stories—and her work comes with a raving endorsement from Dan Chaon.
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First Fiction 2013: A Thriller for The Modern Age - Drew Chapman
Within paragraphs of meeting 26-year-old bond trader Garrett Reilly, readers will know that The Ascendant is not their parents’ thriller.
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First Fiction 2013: A Landlord Knows All - Amy Grace Loyd
For years, Amy Grace Loyd worked on The Affairs of Others on weekends and on the subway to and from work—which might be why New York City feels like a flesh-and-blood character in her story.
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First Fiction 2013: The Intersection Of Science and Love - Graeme Simsion
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, believes a 16-page questionnaire will help him find the perfect partner—or at least the second date he’s never had. Then he meets the unlikeliest of candidates: Rosie, who is on a quest to find her biological father.
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First Fiction 2013: Testing the Ties that Bind - Emma Chapman
St. Martin’s Press executive editor Jennifer Weis first got the manuscript for How to Be a Good Wife from a colleague attending the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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First Fiction 2013: Literary Hat Trick - J.M. Sidorova
Moscow native J.M. Sidorova adhered to a time-honored routine while working on The Age of Ice: “Research, research, research—write. Repeat.”
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