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BookTrib’s Staff Turns the Page with Ambitious Reading Resolutions for 2026

Every January, readers everywhere make the same hopeful promise: This is the year I finally tackle my TBR. Spoiler alert — the TBR almost always fights back. For 2026, BookTrib's staff is setting reading resolutions that are ambitious, realistic, slightly chaotic and refreshingly honest. From finally cracking open neglected classics…

BookTribJanuary 2, 2026

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 Potpourri

From the Heart of My Work — A Note from Meryl

Hello, readers and book friends! What I love most about my job is being surrounded by authors who are deeply passionate—not just about their books, but about the world. They bring a piece of themselves to the page and entrust me and my team to give their work the strongest…

BookTribJune 5, 2025

Listicles Potpourri

8 Books That Redefine Spiritual Pathways to Unity

In a world increasingly fractured by political ideologies, cultural conflict and racial tension, many are searching for more than slogans — they’re looking for healing rooted in grace and shared humanity. This curated collection of books speaks directly to that hunger. Each work is grounded in a spiritually-based approach to…

Katie BloomerMay 6, 2025

BookTrib’s Staff Turns the Page with Ambitious Reading Resolutions for 2026

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

From the Heart of My Work — A Note from Meryl

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