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Romance

Tricia Levenseller Talks Romantasy, Crafting Characters & “The Darkness Within Us”

Get ready for a fast-paced and utterly romantic novel in Tricia Levenseller’s new release The Darkness Within Us. Tricia Levenseller, known for her best-selling YA duology Daughter of the Pirate King, solidifies her expertise as a romantasy author with this companion novel to the darkly compelling The Shadows Between Us.…

Aurora DominguezJuly 9, 2024

Fiction Miscellany

Meet Jennifer Haigh, Winner of 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

This is the first in a series of interviews with previous winners of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature award, for which BookTrib is a proud partner. First presented in 2016, this award honors a work of fiction from the previous calendar year that speaks with an “American Voice”…

Rand Richards CooperJuly 1, 2024

Book Club Network Listicles

6 Perfect Summer Reads For Your Next Book Club Meeting

Are you looking for a new book to incite thrilling conversations with your book club? Look no further! We’ve got six books this month that are sure to spark lively discussions, entertain and teach you something new. Each month, BookTrib helps book clubs pick their next read by sending 60…

BookTribJune 25, 2024

Podcasts Thrillers

Writers, Ink Podcast: Wendy Corsi Staub Explains Foreshadowing

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…

Writers, InkJuly 10, 2023

Miscellany Thrillers

Lisa Unger Puts a Spin on the Haunted House Novel in “The New Couple in 5B”

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger has a tried-and-true method for writing her novels — not a word makes it to the page until the voices start talking. In her latest book, The New Couple in 5B (Park Row), those voices belong to Chad and Rosie, a couple who…

Dawn IusMarch 21, 2024

Romance

Finding Love at the Dog Park in “Summer Romance”

Warm your heart this June…and grab a copy of Annabel Monaghan’s sweet, new romance novel! In Summer Romance, Ali is navigating emotions tied to a failed marriage and while overcoming grief she develops an unexpected relationship. Attraction, love, companionship and self-discovery make this story a pleasurable read and if you know…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 19, 2024

A Northern Light in Provence by Elizabeth Birkelund

Fiction

Elizabeth Birkelund Discusses Her Tender Novel Set in French Village

In Elizabeth Birkelund’s new novel, A Northern Light in Provence (Ballantine), we have an enticing love story that encompasses many layers. The locales are disparate, one is icy Greenland and the other is the mountains of Provence. Shadowing the lovers is how they have been formed by place and experience.…

Susan Shapiro BarashJune 17, 2024

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured Nonfiction

Mike Murphy’s Memoir Showcases a Too-Short but Exceedingly Well-Lived Life

This is the extraordinary true story of the last six months of the life of Margot Murphy after a nine-year battle with cancer, written by her husband. Unflinching in its honesty and transparency, Living in Color: A Love Story, in Sickness and in Health by Mike Murphy is a riveting inside…

Judy MorenoOctober 18, 2021

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured

Philip Warren Highlights an Often-Forgotten Time and People While Introducing “Irina”

Irina is the strong and compelling central character in author Philip Warren’s novel of the same name. What muse led him to write about the elusive time period and the shadowy figures that populated it in his book? Poland, the Black Death, the Depression, religious tensions … these are each…

BookTribJune 21, 2021

Trust and Safety by Laura Blackett Eve Gleichman

Fiction

Humorous, Heartfelt, Queer Satire Tackles Life Off the Grid

Writing duo Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman — whose hilarious rom-com and office satire, The Very Nice Box, debuted to rave reviews — have returned with a provocative sophomore novel that exceeds all expectations. Trust and Safety is a read-in-one-sitting exploration of contemporary life, technology and social media, queerness, belonging…

Megan BeauregardJune 4, 2024

Thrillers

In the Streets and Swamps of Miami Lies Danger – and Salvation

“There’s no rehabilitation in prison. You just become more of whatever landed you in there.” “That so? Then what did you become more of in there?” “A hunter.” Miami, 2016. Cuban-American Ignacio Guerra, 23, is home after three years in jail for assaulting a police informant who set him up…

Neil NyrenMay 31, 2024

Thrillers

Finder’s Lastest Thriller with a Compromised Judge

For those of us who try to live our lives in a judgment-free zone, what are we to make of Joseph Finder’s latest thriller, Judgment (Dutton)? Should we judge Juliana Brody for not wanting to stay cooped up in her hotel room after nailing a speech at a legal conference?…

Jim AlkonJanuary 28, 2019

Author Spotlight Fiction

Dark, Fabulist Tale “Every Bone A Prayer” Summons Our Imaginations

“Searing and soothing, honest and elusive, Every Bone a Prayer is a gift. It’s the pure truth, told slant.” — Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January “Haunting and healing ... a powerful debut that will leave its mark on readers’ hearts.” — Kim Michele Richardson, author of The Book…

Valerie Taylor, author of "What’s Not Said" and "What’s Not True"August 4, 2020

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured

Edith Tarbescu Dishes on the Murder She Wrote

Edith Tarbescu’s absorbing mystery novel One Will: Three Wives (Adelaide Books) is here to kill it in the murder-book scene. The action takes place in an expertly portrayed New York City in wintertime, full of cozy coffee shops and snowy landmarks. But don’t the postcard-worthy imagery fool you into thinking…

BookTribNovember 1, 2021

Fiction

Speculative Debut Explores Life in the Shadows of a Surveillance State

Shadows exist as reminders of people’s crimes in this poetic, disturbing and hopeful debut from Marisa Crane. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (Catapult) is a near-future, speculative sci-fi novel, set in an imagined United States that feels eerily similar to our own. The Department of Balance acts as the…

Megan BeauregardFebruary 6, 2023

Fiction

Love, Faith, and Writing: A Chat with Herb Freed

We recently sat down with Herb Freed to discuss his new book Love, Faith and a Pair of Pants, now available for purchase. Herb Freed started his adult life as an ordained rabbi and became the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Lake Mahopac, NY, while producing and directing three shows…

Jim AlkonOctober 24, 2018

Tricia Levenseller Talks Romantasy, Crafting Characters & “The Darkness Within Us”

Meet Jennifer Haigh, Winner of 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

6 Perfect Summer Reads For Your Next Book Club Meeting

Writers, Ink Podcast: Wendy Corsi Staub Explains Foreshadowing

Lisa Unger Puts a Spin on the Haunted House Novel in “The New Couple in 5B”

Mike Murphy’s Memoir Showcases a Too-Short but Exceedingly Well-Lived Life

Philip Warren Highlights an Often-Forgotten Time and People While Introducing “Irina”

Finder’s Lastest Thriller with a Compromised Judge

Dark, Fabulist Tale “Every Bone A Prayer” Summons Our Imaginations

Edith Tarbescu Dishes on the Murder She Wrote

Love, Faith, and Writing: A Chat with Herb Freed

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