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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

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Warning: These Book May Cause Emotional Damage (And You’ll Thank Us)

Discover more hidden gems, gift-worthy stunners and the soul-crushing reads that will ruin you in the best way Look, we get it … your nightstand already looks like a cry for help and your Goodreads “want to read” shelf is giving hoarder energy. Too bad. We went full chaotic gremlin…

BookTribDecember 4, 2025

Homepage 4 Miscellany

Staff Picks: 6 Before 2026

As the year winds down, we’re swapping ambitious “10 before the end” goals for something a little more joyful and attainable: 6 before 2026. December rarely leaves room for double-digit reading lists, so we’re keeping things short, sweet and satisfying with the half-dozen books we’re determined to finish before the…

BookTribDecember 3, 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

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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

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Where Science Meets Spellcraft: Building Worlds on the Edge of Magic and Math

“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.” — Arthur C. Clarke, paraphrased. Science is a crucial element in science fiction stories, but for me, a creative, geeky, STEM girl, it’s crucial in the telling of great fantasy as well. The concept of “science as magic” was pretty much embedded…

H. Leighton DicksonNovember 3, 2025

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A Translator’s Journey to Curate a Global Bookstore

In a city brimming with bookstores, Clevo Books stands out for its singular focus: translated literature from around the world. Founded by translator Cathryn Siegel-Bergman, the shop brings international voices to local readers, offering a curated selection that ranges from Japanese horror to contemporary classics. We spoke with Cathryn to…

BookTribNovember 26, 2025

Miscellany Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast — Christmas Book Recommendations 2025

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…

BookTribNovember 25, 2025

Miscellany Podcasts

Writers, Ink Podcast: The importance of character with Richard Kirshenbaum

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…

BookTribNovember 25, 2025

Miscellany

Your Sagittarius-Season Reading Guide: New Drops, Nostalgia Hits & Chilling Recs

Happy Sagittarius season! ♐ We’re manifesting a month of TBR-tackling + bookish wishlist-bulding, and our latest issue of BOOK NEWS is here to help with exactly that! This week, we’re covering: 🌟 brand-new + upcoming releases, plus our editors’ picks of the week 🌟 horror recs as chilling as the…

BookTribNovember 21, 2025

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Discover the Books That Will Carry You Through the Rest of the Year

Fuel Your Mind Now and Build a Better 2026 Forget waiting for January to “get things together.” The time to sharpen your mind and challenge your perspective is now, before the holiday chaos swallows your focus. This is your mental toolkit for the rest of 2025, packed with ideas that…

BookTribNovember 20, 2025

Listicles Miscellany

20 New Book Releases of The Week: Cookbooks, Suspense, Poetry and More

December begins on Friday and if you haven't begun shopping already for the holidays, then you have been thinking about it. For the next few weeks, we will be super-sizing the list of new releases to help you in your shopping quest for the perfect holiday gifts for book lovers.…

BookTribNovember 28, 2017

Listicles Miscellany

Prince, John Grisham, Anna Faris, Oliver Sacks and Nikki Giovanni Reign!: New Books, Old Favs

If there was ever a list of new releases that displayed the kind of diversity and breadth that we love about books, it would be this list. We have one of the most intimate books of the personal life of Prince (you never forget your first time hearing a Prince…

BookTribOctober 24, 2017

What Covering Crime In TV News Taught Me About Crafting Thrillers

Warning: These Book May Cause Emotional Damage (And You’ll Thank Us)

Staff Picks: 6 Before 2026

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

Where Science Meets Spellcraft: Building Worlds on the Edge of Magic and Math

A Translator’s Journey to Curate a Global Bookstore

Books & Looks Podcast — Christmas Book Recommendations 2025

Writers, Ink Podcast: The importance of character with Richard Kirshenbaum

Your Sagittarius-Season Reading Guide: New Drops, Nostalgia Hits & Chilling Recs

Discover the Books That Will Carry You Through the Rest of the Year

20 New Book Releases of The Week: Cookbooks, Suspense, Poetry and More

Prince, John Grisham, Anna Faris, Oliver Sacks and Nikki Giovanni Reign!: New Books, Old Favs

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