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With all the books on offer, what makes a reader pull your book off the shelf? No one knows. But[…]

I’m reading The Searcher by Tana French now because when it first came out, I wasn’t very focused for a[…]

Bruce Robert Coffin is a retired police detective sergeant and bestselling author of the Detective Byron Mysteries. He lives and[…]

Last month I wrote to you about characters having music identities. This month I thought we’d look at the different ways[…]

Before I was a writer, I was a reader. And I read mostly mysteries, biography, history and some literary fiction. […]

Michele: Welcome Arlene Kay to Miss Demeanors until you see how far Arlene takes her research! Make sure you click[…]

So, I’ve been thinking a lot about how the publishing industry is upside down. Authors are the ones who bring[…]

Vanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. I thought we would pose[…]

I was going to write about something else, but the news of Sinéad O’Connor’s passing hit me a bit hard,[…]

I periodically post a reminder to readers about how valuable their input is to the success of a book. Since[…]