Fiction

Video: What Does Glee Have to do with Carrie Brownstein?

I love a good musical number and a good television show, though it’s rare that the two ever go together well. Aside from a brief stint in the early 2000s where it seemed like every TV show was doing a musical episode, most musical shows have bombed pretty horribly. Does…

Rachel CarterFebruary 26, 2016

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The Walking Dead and 4 Post-Apocalyptic Worlds to Cheer You Up… Not!

There’s something very intriguing about imagining the world ending. Not that we actually want it to happen, of course, but there’s a reason we’re all drawn to shows like The Walking Dead, or books like Cormac McCarthy’s, The Road: they play out our worst fears in post-apocalyptic worlds, showing us…

Rachel CarterMay 24, 2017

Fiction

Vietnam Vet Learns What It Means to Be a Hero in an Imperfect World

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_hero-can-I-be-maureen-hogan-lutz-book-review.jpg Set in the '60s, Maureen Hogan Lutz’s newest novel, Hero Can I Be, is the fast-paced story of James “Jamie” Vincent Corrigan, “a tall redhead with a hair-trigger temper” whose troubled yet street-smart New York City upbringing by Irish Catholic immigrant parents shapes him into the hero he becomes,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 11, 2020

Fiction

Last Minute Literary Vacation Ideas from Five Classic Novels

The summer’s drawing to a close, and you still have one thing left to do: Vacation! There are so many places you could go, from Barcelona to Disney World! But you, being a huge literary nerd since birth, might want to go to a place with a story – literally!…

Rachael ElmyAugust 1, 2017

Fiction

‘Deadpool’ Meets ‘Harry Potter’ in Upcoming Fantasy Noir, ‘Dead Jack’

The Tobias Literary Agency, Dreamstreet Entertainment and Lonetree Entertainment in partnership with James Aquilone have a great announcement for James Aquilone’s fans: they have optioned the film and television rights for Dead Jack and the Pandemonium Device. The upcoming "horror-fantasy noir" has been pitched as Deadpool meets Harry Potter, where "a…

Aisha K. StaggersOctober 27, 2017

Fiction

What We Still Don’t Know About the MLK Assassination 50 Years Later: Interview with Author Steve Berry

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. We recently spoke with author Steve Berry about his book The Bishop's Pawn (Minotaur), what happened at the Lorraine Motel 50 years ago, what we don't know about the investigation and whether or not history has been kind…

BookTribApril 4, 2018

Fiction

Urban Fantasy and Sci-Fi Collide in Thrilling and Imaginative “Angels in the Mist”

Angels in the Mist (Water Dragon Publishing), the first installment in Ryan Southwick’s The Z-Tech Chronicles trilogy, has enough intensity and inventiveness for three books all by itself. Brimming with elements of practically every genre including exhilarating action-adventure, riveting sci-fi, urban fantasy and breathtaking romance, Angels in the Mist surprises and…

Judy MorenoJuly 29, 2020

Fiction

Urban Fantasy “How to Be a Badass Vigilante” Magically Thwarts LA Crime

Tight leather bodysuit? Check. Sleek getaway motorcycle? Check. Desire to thwart the plans of criminal masterminds and keep the city streets safe? Check, and check. Oh, if only fighting crime was as simple as that, but as readers will discover in Michael Anderle’s How to Be a Badass Vigilante: Book…

Chelsea CicconeFebruary 19, 2021

Fiction

Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ is the Best Book of the Year — Maybe the Decade

Decades before the Civil War, a slave woman named Cora risks her life and runs off a cotton plantation in Georgia. Colson Whitehead’s hero in The Underground Railroad is afraid to take a gamble on so much until she realizes she wouldn’t be risking that much to begin with. Being…

Matt GillickNovember 17, 2016

Fiction

Underneath A “Perfect” Marriage In Psychological Thriller “Best Day Ever”

At BookTrib, we are constantly searching for the best ways to connect readers with writers, opening their eyes and worlds to fresh ideas! This is how we came across a wonderful group known as the Tall Poppies, who are not only avid readers, but extremely talented writers as well! On a…

Kate MorettiSeptember 21, 2017

Fiction

Twisting Bodies and Crippling Insecurities

"You can't buy happiness." This old adage came to my mind again and again as I was reading Ann Lineberger's The Adjustments (Full Fathom Five Digital), a sharp satirical novel on the upper crust of Connecticut society, flourishing in so many ways, and yet incredibly vulnerable in others. It's in rare…

Rebecca ProulxFebruary 4, 2019

Fiction

J.J. Martin Tackles Delicate Topic Within the Catholic Church

Sometimes, and with some topics, there are no delicate ways to tell a story. That’s what makes them harrowing, heart-wrenching, so real and so important. In his debut novel, Father Sweet (Dundurn), J. J. Martin gives readers an intimate glimpse into clerical abuse of young boys within the Catholic Church…

K.L. RomoJuly 18, 2019

Fiction

Twain’s End Reveals Samuel Clemens’ Surprising Love Triangle

Who was the real Mark Twain? In the end, “Mark Twain” himself wasn’t a real person—he was a pseudonym (and a persona) invented by Samuel Clemens and he was perhaps the greatest popular culture superstar of his time. As a novelist, essayist and public speaker, Clemens occupied a spot at…

Michael RuscoeOctober 12, 2015

BooksToScreen Fiction

Waiting for Tulip Fever? Historical Novels We’d Love to See on the Big Screen

When we heard that Tulip Fever, Deborah Moggach’s charming historical novel was going to be made into a movie, we did a little dance. And maybe even squealed out loud. Sure, it was embarrassing, but the book is just that good. Set during "tulipomania" in Amsterdam in the 1630s, it tells…

Rachel CarterMarch 1, 2017

Fiction

True Blood’s Sookie Stackhouse Returns in Collection of Short Stories

If you thought that the Sookie Stackhouse series was done and over, think again! Charlaine Harris, author of The Southern Vampire Mysteries Series aka The Sookie Stackhouse Series aka The True Blood Novels, has released several short stories that take place in the True Blood universe; now, for the first time,…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaNovember 9, 2017

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Thin Ice Between Guilt and Acceptance

Imagine being the sole survivor of an incident at a frozen lake that claims your brothers in its icy depths. The emotional baggage and survivors' guilt one would carry on a daily basis would feel insurmountable. Best Lightburn, the protagonist of Nicole Blades' The Thunder Beneath Us (Kensington), has had…

Aimie K. RunyanMay 23, 2019

Video: What Does Glee Have to do with Carrie Brownstein?

The Walking Dead and 4 Post-Apocalyptic Worlds to Cheer You Up… Not!

Vietnam Vet Learns What It Means to Be a Hero in an Imperfect World

Last Minute Literary Vacation Ideas from Five Classic Novels

‘Deadpool’ Meets ‘Harry Potter’ in Upcoming Fantasy Noir, ‘Dead Jack’

What We Still Don’t Know About the MLK Assassination 50 Years Later: Interview with Author Steve Berry

Urban Fantasy and Sci-Fi Collide in Thrilling and Imaginative “Angels in the Mist”

Urban Fantasy “How to Be a Badass Vigilante” Magically Thwarts LA Crime

Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ is the Best Book of the Year — Maybe the Decade

Underneath A “Perfect” Marriage In Psychological Thriller “Best Day Ever”

Twisting Bodies and Crippling Insecurities

J.J. Martin Tackles Delicate Topic Within the Catholic Church

Twain’s End Reveals Samuel Clemens’ Surprising Love Triangle

Waiting for Tulip Fever? Historical Novels We’d Love to See on the Big Screen

True Blood’s Sookie Stackhouse Returns in Collection of Short Stories

Tall Poppy Review: Thin Ice Between Guilt and Acceptance

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