Order of Teresa Driscoll Books
Teresa Driscoll is a journalist and author. She is known as a longtime BBC TV news presenter and more recenlty as the author of the I Am Watching You and I Will Make You Pay. (more…)
Order of Tasha Suri Books
Tasha Suri is a fantasy novelist that was born in Harrow, North-West London. She is the author of The Books of Ambha series that debuted in 2018 with Empire of Sand. The series is inspired by India’s medieval/early modern Mughal Empire. (more…)
Order of Cara Hunter Books
Cara Hunter is an English author best known for writing the DI Fawley series of books. The series debuted in 2017 with the release of Close to Home which received many rave reviews on release from authors like Kathryn Croft and John Marrs. (more…)
Order of Kelly Barnhill Books
Kelly Barnhill is an American author of YA fantasy novels and non-fiction books. Prior to being a novelist, Kelly worked as a teacher, bartender, waitress, park ranger, secretary, and janitor. She doesn’t feel any of these experiences prepared her for anything in life other than to tell stories, so that is what she does (quite happily). She earned the Newbery Medal in 2017, in addition to fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the McKnight Foundation. She has also received the World Fantasy Award, Parents Choice Gold Award, the Texas Library Association Bluebonnet, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. Kelly is married to her husband, Ted Barnhill, and has three children. (more…)
Order of Barbara Samuel / Barbara O’Neal / Ruth Wind Books
Barbara Samuel is an American author who also writes books under the names of Barbara O’Neal and Ruth Wind. Samuel is a multiple time winner of the prestigious RITA award from the Romance Writers of America and is also an inductee of the RWA Hall of Fame. (more…)
Order of Susan Choi Books
Susan Choi is an American novelist who wrote her first novel, The Foreign Student in 1998. That book won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and it was also a finsalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. She has also been a Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and won the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for A Person of Interest. (more…)
January 2020 Newsletter
Welcome to 2020!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and I hope everyone is able to reflect back on the year that was with some positivity. I have friends who I know have had lots of great things happen to them over the year, yet their Facebook posts yesterday were filled with “good riddance to 2019”. (more…)
Reader Mailbag: Best Book Published in 2019
In the December 2019 newsletter I asked readers what the best book they read that was published in 2019 was.
Here are their responses: (more…)
Order of Gloria Chao Books
Gloria Chao is a Taiwanese-American author who burst on the scene with American Panda. Her books are aimed toward a younger audience with teenage Taiwanese-American girls as the protagonists. (more…)
Order of Kacen Callender Books
Kacen Callender is an author out of Saint Thomas who is best known for writing YA fiction and fantasy. Callender’s book, Hurricane Child, was the Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award winner. (more…)