Miscellany

Miscellany

From Darcy-Level Romance to Must-Have Gifts & Giveaways

All the glitz, glam, and bookish magic your holiday heart can handle — in one dazzling edition. Dearest readers, BookTrib has conjured an edition brimming with pure literary sparkle just for you. Think timeless heroes who still set the standard for swoon-worthy romance (yes, even 250 years later), giveaways so…

BookTribDecember 18, 2025

Miscellany Podcasts

Writers, Ink Podcast: How to Murder Your Darlings with New York Times bestseller, Jenna Blum

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

BookTribDecember 23, 2025

Miscellany

Four Ways to Keep a Series Fresh (Without Repeating Yourself)

Who hasn’t finished the latest installment in a favorite series and then hurried over to the author’s website: Will there be a new book? Is the author actually working on it? When can I read it? I felt the same way — until I was the author and understood how…

Connie BerryDecember 18, 2025

Miscellany

Lights, Lattes and Literary Magic: Books for Every Holiday Mood

From cozy nights to festive mornings, discover the books that bring the holiday cheer. The holidays are sneaking up faster than a kid on a sugar high and if you’re anything like us, that means it’s time to stock up on books that make the season sparkle. From laugh-out-loud rom-coms…

BookTribDecember 11, 2025

Miscellany Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast — “Mysteries of the National Parks” by Mike Bezemek

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

BookTribDecember 17, 2025

Miscellany Romance

Still Swooning After 250 Years: Jane Austen’s Greatest Heartthrobs

How do you prefer your Jane Austen heroes? Dashing? (Captain Frederick Wentworth.) Disarming? (Henry Tilney.) Discerning? (George Knightley.) Dreamy? (Charles Bingley.) Dedicated? (Fitzwilliam Darcy.) Doting? (Colonel Brandon.) December 16, 2025 celebrates the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth and yet her men remain as appealing as when they were first…

BookTribDecember 16, 2025

Fiction Miscellany

Why It’s a Good Idea to Belly Crawl Under a Mountain for the Love of A Novel

From the first time I visited Ruby Falls in Chattanooga, Tenn., I wanted to set a novel there. I rode an elevator two hundred and sixty feet underground and stepped into a different world. Solid rock everywhere, first sheared smooth from dynamite and, later, with stalactites hanging like sharp teeth.…

Gin PhillipsDecember 16, 2025

Miscellany Podcasts

Writers, Ink Podcast: Mastering social media with Magen Mintchev

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

BookTribDecember 16, 2025

Listicles Miscellany

Staff Picks: Our Gift Guide

Finding the perfect book can feel like offering someone an entirely new world to step into. The BookTrib team is sharing the titles we’re wrapping up for our own friends and family this year. These are the stories we know will spark joy and great conversations. Our staff picks offer…

BookTribDecember 11, 2025

Miscellany Podcasts

Writers, Ink Podcast: Agent Mark Tavani shares publishing and marketing insights

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

BookTribDecember 9, 2025

Miscellany Potpourri

What Covering Crime In TV News Taught Me About Crafting Thrillers

The leap from reporting crime as a TV news producer to writing psychological thrillers is not as big a jump as you might think. For me, it’s been a logical next step, a distillation of so much of what I’d heard and seen and experienced in the nearly two decades…

Christina KovacDecember 5, 2025

Miscellany Potpourri

Storytelling as a Survival Skill: Why We Tell to Endure

In the 2021 biography of the late author Philip Roth, it was noted that, when his early work was published, Roth’s relatives often expressed outrage to the writer over his fictionalized use of what they recognized as family stories. We don’t usually think of ourselves as narrators. We think of…

Corey RosenDecember 3, 2025

Miscellany Potpourri

Characters Who Take Over Your Book

I needed a ghost. I’d just published my debut novel, A Beginner’s Guide to Starting Over, and was beginning my follow-up. I was about halfway into writing the second book when I began to receive feedback from readers about the first. One of the things they commented on was how…

Gabi CoatsworthDecember 3, 2025

Miscellany Podcasts

Writers, Ink Podcast: The impact of direct sales on your local bookstore with Bob Lingle

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

BookTribDecember 2, 2025

Fiction Miscellany

No Barriers to Love: The Romances of Olivia Dade

Years before U.S. Olympic Rugby star Ilona Maher went viral for her uplifting message of body positivity, there was romance novelist Olivia Dade, whose rich, resonant, sexy, and occasionally hilarious romances championed big, beautiful lovers of every size and shape. “Fat isn’t a pejorative,” she says, “it’s merely a descriptor…

JeriAnn GellerNovember 25, 2025

Miscellany

What’s in a Pen Name?: How I Went From Gothic Fiction to Bubblegum Pop

James Baldwin famously claimed that “every writer has only one story to tell,” and I’ve found that to be true. In my work I find myself grappling with the same set of ideas in different settings, changing scenery and characters to illuminate the same set of human truths. But if…

Margaux EliotNovember 4, 2025

From Darcy-Level Romance to Must-Have Gifts & Giveaways

Writers, Ink Podcast: How to Murder Your Darlings with New York Times bestseller, Jenna Blum

Four Ways to Keep a Series Fresh (Without Repeating Yourself)

Lights, Lattes and Literary Magic: Books for Every Holiday Mood

Books & Looks Podcast — “Mysteries of the National Parks” by Mike Bezemek

Still Swooning After 250 Years: Jane Austen’s Greatest Heartthrobs

Why It’s a Good Idea to Belly Crawl Under a Mountain for the Love of A Novel

Staff Picks: Our Gift Guide

Writers, Ink Podcast: Agent Mark Tavani shares publishing and marketing insights

What Covering Crime In TV News Taught Me About Crafting Thrillers

Storytelling as a Survival Skill: Why We Tell to Endure

Characters Who Take Over Your Book

Writers, Ink Podcast: The impact of direct sales on your local bookstore with Bob Lingle

No Barriers to Love: The Romances of Olivia Dade

What’s in a Pen Name?: How I Went From Gothic Fiction to Bubblegum Pop

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