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‘Guilty Minds,’ A Conversation with Joseph Finder

Joseph Finder is the bestselling author of twelve previous novels, including The Fixer and Suspicion. His bestsellers Paranoia and High Crimes both became major motion pictures. His awards include The Barry, Gumshoe, and The International Thriller Writers Award for his novel, Killer Instinct. His new Novel is Guilty Minds.

Guilty Minds, the third book in the Nick Heller series, has Nick Heller called to Washington, DC to defang a potentially explosive situation. The Chief Justice of the Supre...

‘The Black Widow,’ A Conversation with Daniel Silva

Daniel Silva is the international award-winning author of the Gabriel Allon series which has topped the New York Times’s bestseller list many times These books about this art restorer, assassin and spy have been translated into twenty-five languages. Before becoming a novelist, Daniel Silva was the Chief Middle East Correspondent for UPI in Egypt, and the Executive Producer of CNN’s Crossfire.

In The Black Widow, ISIS has detonated a bomb in Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabr...

Acclaimed Authors Talk About Procrastination

I’ve had the opportunity to interview some of the most acclaimed authors on the planet. I enjoy asking them questions often tailored to their unique writing styles or fictional characters. There are some questions that apply almost universally to writers. One of my favorites is:

Do you procrastinate? And how do you deal with the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate?

Here are excerpted responses from very successful and prolific authors.

Don Winslow: If I procrastinate or don’t write, I...

‘The Innocents,’ A Conversation with Ace Atkins

Ace Atkins, while working as a crime reporter for the Tampa Tribune, earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his coverage of a cold case from the 1950s. At age 27, his first novel, Crossroad Blues, was published and be became a full-time novelist at age 30.

MEMPHIS, TN.,12/1/07–Author Ace Atkins poses in the Arcade Resturant in Memphis. Photo/Jay Nolan

The Innocents is the sixth installment of his critically acclaimed Quinn Colson series. After a stint in Afghanistan where he trained local pol...

‘I Am No One,’ A Conversation with Patrick Flannery

Patrick Flanery earned a B.F.A. in film at NYU and worked in the film industry before moving to the U.K, where he completed a doctorate in Twentieth-Century English Literature at Oxford. He has written for the Washington Post and the Times Literary Supplement, and is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Reading. I Am No One is his third novel.

I Am No One features Jeremy O’Keefe, a divorced, middle-aged history and film lecturer at NYU, who has returned from the U.K. after spe...

‘As Good As Gone,’ A Conversation with Larry Watson

Larry Watson received his BA and MA from the University of North Dakota and his PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. His fiction, published in many foreign editions, has received multiple prizes and awards. His short stories and poems have appeared in various journals. He taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for twenty-five years before joining the faculty at Marquette University in 2003 as a visiting professor.

As Good as Gone, his 10th novel, is set in the 1960s...

‘Redemption Road,’ A Conversation with John Hart

John Hart, a bestselling author, is the only writer ever to win the Edgar Award for consecutive novels. He’s also won the Barry Award, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and the North Carolina Award for Literature, among others.

Redemption Road features Elizabeth Black, a North Carolina detective accused of murdering two kidnappers and rapists after their bodies are discovered riddled by 18 bullet holes.

The novel also focuses on Adrian Wall, a former police officer who was convicted of murd...

‘Wilde Lake,’ A Conversation with Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman began writing novels while working as a reporter. Seven “Tess Monaghan” books were published before she left journalism in 2001. Her bestselling novels, which are considered to be literary crime fiction, have garnered the Edgar, the Anthony, the Agatha, and the Shamus Awards, among other honors.

In Wilde Lake, Luisa “Lu” Brant has just been elected State’s Attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a position previously held by her father. After Lu’s husband dies suddenly, she and her...

‘The Assistants’ A Conversation with Camille Perri

Camille Perri was a books editor for Cosmopolitan and Esquire magazines and has also been a reference librarian. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from NYU and a Master of Library Science degree from Queens College. She wrote the first draft of The Assistants while working as the Assistant to the Editor in Chief of Esquire.

The Assistants features Tina Fontana, a 30 year old executive assistant to the billionaire CEO of Titan Corporation. She’s great at her job, but after 6 years of making...

‘Don’t You Cry,’ A Conversation with Mary Kubica

Mary Kubica is the bestselling author of The Good Girl and Pretty Baby. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and American Literature from Miami University in Ohio.

Her third novel, Don’t You Cry, features a dual narrative focusing on a young woman, Quinn Collins, and an 18 year old man, Alex Gallo. Quinn’s roommate, Esther, disappears from their Chicago apartment, leaving Quinn wondering what happened to her. She finds a strange letter addressed to Esther, which makes her question i...