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May 4, 2017
A Review That Makes Me Glad I Wrote The Book
A continuation of the discussion about mental health begun in the book, Bedlam’s Door, Mark Rubinstein, MD, brings incite into another 21 stories revolving around issues that pervade the lives of so many people. Beyond Bedlam’s Door, is a compassionate look into the trials and tribulations of those who suffer from mental illness.
Dr. Rubinstein shows, once again, the humanity of the people who live with a var...
April 28, 2017
‘Golden Prey,’ A Talk with John Sandford
The writer John Sandford (USA) by Beowulf Sheehan, July 9, 2015, New York, New York. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan
John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. After turning to fiction, he’s written many bestselling books, including twenty-seven Prey novels, his most recent being the just-released Golden Prey. He’s also penned four Kidd novels; nine Virgil Flowers novels; three standalone novels, and three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook....
April 18, 2017
‘Fallout,’ A Conversation with Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky is the award-winning author of the V. I. Warshawski detective novels. In 1982, when Sara wrote Indemnity Only, she revolutionized the mystery novel by creating a hard-boiled woman investigator.
Growing up in rural Kansas, Sara came to Chicago in 1966 to do community service work in the neighborhood where Martin Luth
er King was organizing. Sara felt that summer changed her life; and after finishing her undergraduate degree at the University of Kansas, she returned to make Chicago...
April 17, 2017
Write What You Know: Why It May Not Be the Best Way To Go
We’ve all heard the old dictum: “Write what you know.”
It’s generic advice often given to authors, especially those who are writing a first novel of even a work of non-fiction.
While there’s an element of truth in such advice, there’s much more to writing books than sticking with those areas with which you are familiar by virtue of training or education.
As a physician, forensic psychiatrist and novelist, it would be easy for me to write about medicine, psychiatry and courtrooms—all of whic...
March 22, 2017
‘Vicious Circle,’ A Conversation with C.J. Box
C.J. Box, the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen Joe Pickett novels, has millions of fans. In addition to the Joe Pickett series, he’s written five standalones, and a short story collection, Shots Fired. He’s won multiple awards for his fiction. His books have been
translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Wyoming.
Vicious Circle, the 17th novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, returns to the storyline begun two novels ago in Endangered. Joe and his family must d...
March 21, 2017
“Mississippi Blood,” A Conversation with Greg Iles
Greg Iles is known to readers everywhere. His first novel. Spandau Phoenix, was published in 1993 and became a bestseller. He has since had many chart-toppers. In his fourth novel, The Quiet Game, he created Penn Cage and placed him in Natchez, the oldest city on the M
ississippi River.
He has written the Natchez Burning Trilogy featuring Penn Cage. The first two novels are Natchez Burning and The Bone Tree.
Mississippi Blood is the last volume in the trilogy. In it, we find mayor and forme...
March 13, 2017
Now More Than Ever: The Most Important Book of Our Time
Arnold Newman, with a Ph.D. in conservation biology, is the Founder and Executive Director of the International Society for the Preservation of the Tropical Rainforest. For over five decades, he has been an advisor to 80 countries in which tropical rainforests are located, and this work has taken him to all continents where these forests exist.
His book Tropical Rainforests is viewed world over as the lead book on our endangered habitat and its survival for the Third Mi
llennium. It is very li...
March 7, 2017
‘Say Nothing,’ A Conversation with Brad Parks
Brad Parks, a former newspaper reporter, is the only author to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. Say Nothing is his 7th novel.
Say Nothing features Scott Sampson, a federal judge who’s held in great esteem. He has a lovely wife and two great kids. One morning, Scott and his wife, Alison, discover that their six-year-old twins have been kidnapped. Scott receives a call warning him to decide exactly as he’s told in a drug case he’s ab...
March 3, 2017
‘Bone Box,’ A Conversation with Faye Kellerman
Faye Kellerman is the bestselling author of 30 previous novels, most of them featuring the husband and wife team of Peter Decker
and Rina Lazarus. Faye and her husband, Jonathan Kellerman, are the only married couple ever to appear on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously for two different novels. And both are authors very long-running series.
Bone Box, the 28th installment of the Decker/Lazarus series, begins with Rina making a shocking discovery of bones found in the woods of he...
February 28, 2017
‘Ripper,’ A Conversation with Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell is known to millions of readers as the award-winning and bestselling author of the Kay Scarpetta series. In 2001, she was pulled into a real-life investigation of her own—the long-unsolved “Jack the Ripper” murders that appalled and fascinated London in the late 1800s. Applying old-fashioned as well as modern forensic techniques to a century old crime, Patricia Cornwell’s research led to the publication of Portrait of a Killer, in which she identified the renowned British pa...
