What’s the Difference Between Writing a Sex Scene and Porn? By Columnist Penny FletcherJune 2017 Back in the day, the movie Pillow Talk created quite a stir because Doris Day and Rock Hudson were seen getting into the same bed and turning out the light. Until that...
Each spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar® Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. The awards were presented April 27, 2017, at the MWA's 71st Gala Banquet in the Grand Hyatt Hotel New York City. A complete list of...
The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign, Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie, Simon and Schuster – A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy’s wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956.
Manitou Canyon, William Kent Krueger, Atria Books – In the extraordinary new Cork O’Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter’s wedding.
Plot is a Verb An exclusive Authorlink interview By Columnist Penny FletcherMay 2017"When I think of plot, I first ask myself what’s the concept of, or “idea behind” my story. " —FLETCHERBoth authors and readers tend to talk about “plot” as if it were an object, like...
Mothers and Other Strangers, Gina Sorell, Prospect Park Books – My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man’s child, she accepted.
The Perfect Stranger, Megan Miranda, Simon & Schuster – In the masterful follow-up to the New York Times bestseller All the Missing Girls—“think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl” (TheSkimm)—a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all.
Young and Damned and Fair, Gareth Russell, Simon & Schuster – Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the very young woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political tension and whose terrible errors in judgment quickly led her to the executioner’s block.
A Great Lead is Like Opening a Door An exclusive Authorlink interview By Columnist Penny FletcherApril 2017"Good lead sentences come in all shapes and sizes. One size does not fit all. " —FLETCHERFor example, in nonfiction- including newspaper and magazine work- a...
The Language of Solitude, Jan-Philipp Sendker, Atria – Jan-Philipp Sendker’s internationally-bestselling debut novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (2012) captivated readers, critics and booksellers alike, who called the book “magical” (Huffington Post) “brilliant” (Shelf Awareness) and “epic” (Publishers Weekly).
