tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59282119347714076832024-03-18T00:05:31.766-05:00Writers ReadVivian Darkbloomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890686845513992399noreply@blogger.comBlogger3360125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-41364367759569349992024-03-18T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-18T00:05:00.238-05:00Chris NicksonChris Nickson is the author of eleven Tom Harper mysteries, eight highly acclaimed novels in the Richard Nottingham series, and six Simon Westow mysteries. He is also a well-known music journalist. He lives in his beloved Leeds.
Nickson's newest Simon Westow mystery is The Scream of Sins.
Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. Nickson's reply:
At the moment, a variety of thingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-62122746999132798152024-03-04T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-04T00:05:00.129-06:00Cara BlackCara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 21 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. Black has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal, which Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-76217388186359104012024-03-01T09:05:00.001-06:002024-03-01T09:05:00.240-06:00Wendy ChurchWendy Church is the author of the Jesse O’Hara and Shadows of Chicago Mysteries series. The first book in the Jesse O’Hara series, Murder on the Spanish Seas, was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten Debut Mystery/Thriller novels of 2023, and received a starred review.
Church's newest books are Murder Beyond the Pale, the second Jesse O’Hara mystery, and Knife Skills, the first Shadows of Chicago Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-33191833847457203152024-02-27T01:05:00.001-06:002024-02-27T01:05:00.135-06:00Ellen O’CloverEllen O’Clover writes stories about finding your people, falling in love, and figuring it all out (or trying to, anyway). Her debut novel, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux, came out in 2023 with HarperCollins/HarperTeen, and her second book, The Someday Daughter, is just out in bookstores.
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. O’Clover's reply:
The last book I read and can’t stop Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-23668963449609875182024-02-24T10:05:00.001-06:002024-02-24T10:05:00.123-06:00Suzanne RedfearnSuzanne Redfearn is the #1 Amazon bestselling author of six novels: Where Butterflies Wander, Moment In Time, Hadley & Grace, In an Instant, No Ordinary Life, and Hush Little Baby.
Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages and have been recognized by RT Reviews, Target Recommends, Goodreads, Publisher’s Marketplace, and Kirkus Reviews.
Redfearn has been awarded Best New Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-17188838189125519122024-02-22T15:05:00.001-06:002024-02-22T15:05:00.131-06:00David MenconiDavid Menconi is an author, critic and journalist in Raleigh, North Carolina. A longtime newspaper writer, he has also written for Billboard, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and Spin. His fifth and newest book is Oh, Didn’t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music, a history of the venerable folk/bluegrass label that has been home to everyone from Alison Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-60976231174284917532024-02-21T02:05:00.001-06:002024-02-21T02:05:00.136-06:00D.W. BuffaD.W. Buffa's new novel is Lunatic Carnival, the tenth legal thriller involving the defense attorney Joseph Antonelli. He has also published a series that attempts to trace the movement of western thought from ancient Athens, in Helen; the end of the Roman Empire, in Julian's Laughter; the Renaissance, in The Autobiography of Niccolo Machiavelli; and, most recently, America in the twentieth Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-304288093723232782024-02-16T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-16T00:05:00.131-06:00Margot LiveseyMargot Livesey was born and grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. She is the author of a collection of stories and nine other novels, including Eva Moves the Furniture, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, and The Boy in the Field. She has received awards from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is on the faculty of the Iowa Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-12169349874148261552024-02-14T15:05:00.001-06:002024-02-14T15:05:00.129-06:00David HandlerDavid Handler is the Edgar Award-winning, critically acclaimed author of several bestselling mystery series.
In 1988 he published The Man Who Died Laughing, the first of his long-running series of mysteries starring ghostwriter Stuart Hoag and his faithful basset hound Lulu. The newest entry in the series is The Woman Who Lowered the Boom.
Recently I asked Handler about what he was reading. TheUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-21770252045622814152024-02-08T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-08T00:05:00.125-06:00Roxana RobinsonRoxana Robinson is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices.
Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, The Southampton Review, Ep!phany and elsewhere. Her work has been Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-22401035522285592442024-02-04T16:05:00.001-06:002024-02-04T16:05:00.133-06:00Amina AkhtarAmina Akhtar is a novelist and former fashion editor. Her satirical first novel, #FashionVictim, drew critical acclaim. Kismet, her second book, was set in the stunning and creepy world of wellness.
Akhtar has worked at Vogue, Elle, the New York Times, and New York Magazine, where she was the founding editor of the women’s blog The Cut. She currently lives not too far from the Sedona vortices.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-79351794358983596522024-01-30T12:05:00.001-06:002024-01-30T12:05:00.240-06:00M. A. McLaughlinM.A. McLaughlin is the award-winning author of a historical mystery trilogy: Claire's Last Secret, A Shadowed Fate, and Forever Past, all set around the Byron/Shelley circle in nineteenth-century Italy. Her novels have been published by Severn House (U.K. and U.S.) and Thomas Schluck (Germany), earning starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, as well as a gold medal for historical fiction in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-25926034298612909922024-01-17T09:05:00.001-06:002024-01-17T09:05:00.128-06:00Adam SimcoxAdam Simcox is a London-based filmmaker who's shot commercials for brands such as McLaren, Primark and Vice, and music videos for Britpop veterans as well as fresh on the scene alt-country stars. He began his film career by writing and directing three features: the first sold to Netflix; the second and third won awards and critical acclaim at festivals worldwide. He is a graduate of the Curtis Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-80885214558776866872024-01-13T16:05:00.003-06:002024-01-14T06:39:13.757-06:00D.W. BuffaD.W. Buffa's new novel is Lunatic Carnival, the tenth legal thriller involving the defense attorney Joseph Antonelli. He has also published a series that attempts to trace the movement of western thought from ancient Athens, in Helen; the end of the Roman Empire, in Julian's Laughter; the Renaissance, in The Autobiography of Niccolo Machiavelli; and, most recently, America in the twentieth Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-10049105369540082932024-01-09T13:05:00.001-06:002024-01-09T13:05:00.131-06:00Vicki DelanyVicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the U.S. She has written more than forty books: clever cozies to Gothic thrillers to gritty police procedurals, to historical fiction and novellas for adult literacy. She is currently writing four cozy mystery series: the Tea by the Sea mysteries for Kensington, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-85109838162572775552024-01-05T13:05:00.003-06:002024-01-06T06:56:22.564-06:00Grant EnnisGrant Ennis is the author of Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health and the Environment. He has more than 20 years’ experience in international humanitarian affairs, environmental policy, and public health.
Ennis is a distinguished alumnus of both the University of the Pacific and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
His new book is Dark PR: How Corporate Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-54100239890951320252024-01-02T08:05:00.001-06:002024-01-02T08:05:00.140-06:00M.M. DeLucaM. M. (Marjorie) DeLuca spent her childhood in the beautiful cathedral city of Durham in North-Eastern England. She attended the University of London, Goldsmiths College, studied psychology, then became a teacher. She immigrated to Canada and lives in Winnipeg with her husband and two children. There she also studied writing under her mentor, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Carol Shields.
She Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-28672866855678517952023-12-29T12:05:00.001-06:002023-12-29T12:05:00.131-06:00Raymond BeaucheminRaymond Beauchemin was born in Western Massachusetts and has lived in Boston, Montreal and Abu Dhabi. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario. He has worked as an editor for the Boston Herald, Montreal Gazette, The National and the Toronto Star. He is the author of Everything I Own, a novel.
Beauchemin's new book is The Emptiest Quarter.
Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-80409918566425254522023-12-26T13:05:00.001-06:002023-12-26T13:05:00.141-06:00Edward M. LernerEdward M. Lerner worked in high tech and aerospace for thirty years, as everything from engineer to senior vice president, for much of that time writing science fiction as his hobby. Since 2004, he has written full-time.
His novels range from near-future techno-thrillers, like Small Miracles and Energized, to traditional SF, like Déjà Doomed and his InterstellarNet series, to (collaborating Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-34339120396003859202023-12-22T09:05:00.001-06:002023-12-22T09:05:00.123-06:00Michael O'DonnellMichael O’Donnell is the author of the novel Above the Fire. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and other publications. O’Donnell has been a member of the National Book Critics Circle since 2005. An attorney by profession, he lives in the Chicago area, where he practices law. He earned his bachelor’s degree with distinction Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-57018302688020124432023-12-20T08:05:00.001-06:002023-12-20T08:05:00.133-06:00Chris McKinneyChris McKinney was born and raised in Hawaiʻi, on the island of Oahu. He has written nine novels, including The Tattoo and The Queen of Tears, a coauthored memoir, and the screenplays for two feature films and two short films. He is the winner of the Elliott Cades Award and seven Kapalapala Poʻokela Awards and has been appointed Visiting Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-66345917027706780962023-12-17T14:05:00.001-06:002023-12-17T14:05:00.127-06:00D.W. BuffaD.W. Buffa's new novel is Lunatic Carnival, the tenth legal thriller involving the defense attorney Joseph Antonelli. He has also published a series that attempts to trace the movement of western thought from ancient Athens, in Helen; the end of the Roman Empire, in Julian's Laughter; the Renaissance, in The Autobiography of Niccolo Machiavelli; and, most recently, America in the twentieth Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-74627400390127532022023-12-09T12:05:00.001-06:002023-12-09T12:05:00.144-06:00Tracy ClarkTracy Clark is the author of the Detective Harriet Foster crime fiction series, including Fall (2023) and Hide (2023). She is a two-time Sue Grafton Memorial Award-winning author and the 2022 winner of the Sara Paretsky Award. The four novels in her Cass Raines series (2018-2021) have also been honored as Anthony Award and Lefty Award finalists and have been shortlisted for the American Library Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-17606179974590305062023-11-28T10:05:00.001-06:002023-11-28T10:05:00.158-06:00S.J. RozanSJ Rozan, a native New Yorker, is the author of at least eighteen novels and six dozen short stories. Her work has won the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity awards for Best Novel and the Edgar for Best Short Story. She’s also the recipient of the Japanese Maltese Falcon Award and has received the Life Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America.
Rozan's new novel is The Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928211934771407683.post-70667509836001261042023-11-23T04:05:00.001-06:002023-11-23T04:05:00.132-06:00Paula RamónPaula Ramón is a Venezuelan journalist who has lived and worked in China, the United States, Brazil, and Uruguay. She is currently a correspondent for Agence France-Presse, based in Los Angeles. She has written and reported for the New York Times, National Geographic, Columbia Journalism Review, and Piauí magazine, among other outlets.
Ramón's new book is Motherland: A Memoir.
Recently I asked Unknownnoreply@blogger.com