By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman | June 30, 2020 PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents...
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Discover Oklahoma TV Show To Air On ABC Texoma
OKLAHOMA CITY — Since 1991, “Discover Oklahoma” television show has been showcasing incredible attractions, accommodations and restaurants around Oklahoma. Beginning Saturday, the state’s official travel and tourism television show will for the first time be under...
Barber’s Truth Be Told Adapted for Apple TV+
Serial meets Ruth Ware’s In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim’s daughter—now a major Apple TV+ series starring...
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Top Picks for the 2019 Southern Festival of Books
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Southern Festival of Books presented by Humanities Tennessee is set to return for its 31st annual event this weekend, October 11-13, 2019. More than 200 authors and laureates will join 25,000 bibliophiles on War Memorial Plaza and the downtown...
The Indie Bestellers List
The Indie Bestsellers List – Published Wednesday, July 24, 2019 (for the sales week ended Sunday, July 21, 2019). Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.
Caving Book Wins New Zealand National Mountain Book Award-2018
A caving book has won the New Zealand Mountain Film and Book Festival's grand prize, announced this week. Caves: Exploring New Zealand's subterranean wilderness was written by West Coaster Neil Silverwood (pictured), of Blackball, and Marcus Thomas, of Wellington,...
How I came up with Evan Smoak
by Gregg Hurwitz Readers often ask me, "How did you come up with Evan Smoak?" It’s always tough to say where my ideas come from (do any of us know where our ideas come from?) but I will say that I knew that to create a character with the legs to withstand a...
Rebecca Morean’s Newest Detective Series
Author Interview with Rebecca Morean, author of Azimuths, We’ve Got This, The Bench, and the Abbey Pen Baker detective series (In the Dead of Winter, Dance of the Spider Monkey, and After Bohemia), among others.
John Nichols Tops 2017 New Mexico, Arizona Book Award Winners
Each year The New Mexico Book-Co-op awards literary prizes in more than 20 categories. The New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Best Book of 2017 went to John Nichols The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest (UNM Press). Nichols also earned the Book Award for Fiction in...
