author interview

ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn had her feet firmly planted in the past when her editor called with a challenge she couldn’t pass up: Write a book featuring an older badass woman. Raybourn accepted the challenge and made it even more difficult. She created four badass women, made them assassins, and for the first…

Dawn IusSeptember 13, 2022

Fiction Miscellany Podcasts Thrillers

Writers, Ink Podcast: Exploring Genre with Paul Tremblay

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, InkDecember 12, 2022

Facebook Live Romance

Laura Hankin and Emily Henry: Summer Reads Are for Everyone!

Thanks to BookTrib’s partnership with Penguin Publishing Group, we had the privilege of speaking with authors Laura Hankin and Emily Henry in May of 2020 about their summer releases: Happy & You Know It and Beach Read. Emily Henry's latest novel, Book Lovers, just won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Romance.…

BookTribDecember 8, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Native Horror Debut is a Love Letter to Denver and Heavy Metal

Erika T. Wurth is well known in her community for uplifting other writers — and certainly Indigenous writers. Even a quick Google search will net links to several articles she’s penned about the massive renaissance in Native fiction. And with the launch of her stunning literary horror debut, White Horse…

Dawn IusNovember 9, 2022

Fiction Miscellany Podcasts Thrillers

Writers, Ink Podcast: How to Drabble with Jake Bible

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, InkDecember 5, 2022

Author Spotlight Fiction Fiction - Featured

Moving Story of Adoption, Parenting and What Makes a Family

Unconventional family stories are fun to read and give us an understanding of unfamiliar situations, allowing for the development of empathy. Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family (Putnam) is about open adoption, siblings and how their adoptive families chose to raise them together as one big family. Although the subject may…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 16, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

ITW Spotlight: Grappling with a Moral Dilemma

New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown isn’t afraid to admit she wrote Blind Tiger — last year’s historical story of romantic suspense, set in the 1920s — partially to avoid dealing with the pandemic. As COVID continued to sweep across the globe, Brown says she wasn’t quite sure how she wanted that…

Dawn IusAugust 16, 2022

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured Children's Books Fiction

Children and Parents Practice Self-Love and Discovery in “Tarra: Mission to Earth”

Post-pandemic, many parents have found their children struggling to acclimate to their back-to-school environment — and for good reason. For two years, most children were in at-home school environments with screens, parents and teachers co-teaching and infrequent social interaction. Going back to a classroom may be refreshing for some children,…

BookTribSeptember 19, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Beth Macy’s Latest Book Confronts Addiction, Harm Reduction and Big Pharma

HOPE FOR A TROUBLED NATION Haven’t we all been looking for answers to the epidemic of substance use disorder (SUD), opioid use disorder (OUD) and the burgeoning death toll from overdose in our country? We need some hope, and Beth Macy has served it up in Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice,…

Judy L. Mandel, NYT Bestselling Author of Replacement Child and (upcoming) White FlagSeptember 20, 2022

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured Fiction

Mitzi Perdue Talks Values, Fortune 500s and Politics in Multi-Genre Interview

In a simple Q&A with Mitzi Perdue, it’s so easy to feel her energy and her passion for life and her work. And, by the way, she has countless anecdotes that are sure to entertain. Earlier this year, she published what she calls “a highlight of my life” – Relentless,…

Jim AlkonOctober 10, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

Con Jobs and Falling Bodies in “Fake Money, Blue Smoke”

“So, I have a business proposition for you.” The speaker in Josh Haven’s Fake Money, Blue Smoke (Mysterious Press) is Kelly Haggerty, and she’s just picked up a man named Matt Kubelsky from the Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institution in upstate New York. Matt’s been in there for killing an unarmed…

Neil NyrenNovember 28, 2022

Facebook Live Facebook Live - Featured

Susan Lax and Dr. Jeannie Blaustein on Embracing Joy and Loss During Celebrations

In the newest chapter of Susan Lax & Friends, spiritual counselor Susan Lax is joined by Dr. Jeannie Blaustein, Founding Chair of Reimagine, to discuss “how to embrace joy and loss during celebrations.” Susan Lax is the acclaimed author of A Heart’s Landscape: An Invitation to the Garden of Moments (our review), and a spiritual…

BookTribNovember 29, 2022

Miscellany Miscellany - Featured Podcasts Thrillers

Writers, Ink Podcast: Reimagining Failure with Dan Padavona

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, InkNovember 28, 2022

Young Adult

Rachel Carter reveals the secrets to time travel in Find Me Where the Water Ends

If I had known how difficult it was to write time travel, I might never have started my young adult novel, So Close to You. But back when I opened that blank document and typed my first word, I was blissfully unaware. I loved reading and watching time travel, so…

Rachel CarterJuly 1, 2014

Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Up Close with Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Agent Pendergast’s last case left him in Florida, where he intended to spend some vacation time—if only severed feet encased in generic footwear hadn’t washed up off the coast of Florida. Reluctant to cut his vacation short, Pendergast agrees to just “take a look at the case,” but quickly enough…

J.H. BogranFebruary 11, 2020

Thrillers

Blood on the Page: Chanelle Benz’s “The Gone Dead”

In Chanelle Benz’s The Gone Dead (Ecco), the dead aren’t really gone. Billie James has returned to the dilapidated house in Greendale, Mississippi, where her father, a renowned black poet, lived. She hasn’t seen it in thirty years. “She had forgotten about the house, figured it’d been knocked down forever…

Neil NyrenJune 24, 2019

ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

Writers, Ink Podcast: Exploring Genre with Paul Tremblay

Laura Hankin and Emily Henry: Summer Reads Are for Everyone!

Writers, Ink Podcast: How to Drabble with Jake Bible

Moving Story of Adoption, Parenting and What Makes a Family

ITW Spotlight: Grappling with a Moral Dilemma

Children and Parents Practice Self-Love and Discovery in “Tarra: Mission to Earth”

Beth Macy’s Latest Book Confronts Addiction, Harm Reduction and Big Pharma

Mitzi Perdue Talks Values, Fortune 500s and Politics in Multi-Genre Interview

Susan Lax and Dr. Jeannie Blaustein on Embracing Joy and Loss During Celebrations

Rachel Carter reveals the secrets to time travel in Find Me Where the Water Ends

ITW Spotlight: Up Close with Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Blood on the Page: Chanelle Benz’s “The Gone Dead”

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