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Author Rick Pullen Gets Fired Up Over His New Book, ‘The Apprentice’

"Virtual Coffee With" is a new column on BookTrib where we chat via email or social media with some of today's most prolific writers. For our inaugural interview we connected with award-winning investigative reporter, magazine editor and author Rick Pullen. Pullen, who is best known for his 2016 thriller, Naked Ambition,…

Maddy TroyDecember 19, 2017

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Treasure Hunters Seek WWII Art Looted by Nazis

The Colonel’s Lost Vault explodes with international intrigue and action from the first page as modern-day adventurer Sophie Lions searches for an immense treasure, hidden for decades in a secret Nazi vault. Author TS Wieland delivers the punch of Mission Impossible along with the historic interest and sophistication of The…

Michael FerryJuly 28, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Crime and Bias Collide in Tamron Hall’s Heart-Hammering New Thriller “As the Wicked Watch”

THE AUTHOR Most of us know Emmy Award-winning Tamron Hall as a talk-show host and former host of NBC’s Today Show — the first Black woman to co-anchor the show. She grew up poor in a small Texas town, then became a journalist in Bryan, Texas, before moving to Dallas…

K.L. RomoNovember 15, 2021

Fiction

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

It’s an up-from-the-slums journey for one Blaise Hill, a smart, upbeat young woman fresh out of secondary school and ready to plunge whole-heartedly into a life-changing career. Set in two world capitals, Sydney and London, and spanning the years between 1957 and 1962, readers follow the adventures of this intrepid…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 24, 2021

Fiction

Elliot Ackerman Has Endless Inspiration for ‘Dark At the Crossing’

Here is an author whose fiction cannot be separated from his life, or, if you indulge me, whose novels are based on his life. Once a marine, with an impressive five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Elliot Ackerman is now a journalist based in Istanbul, from where he…

Frederic ColierOctober 11, 2017

Author Spotlight Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Author and Podcaster Zibby Owens Gets Real in Her Newly-Released Memoir “Bookends”

It took author Zibby Owens almost 20 years to get Bookends, A Memoir of Love, Loss and Literature out in the world, and it is worth the wait! I read it cover to cover in less than 24 hours and LOVED IT so much! Tears and laughter for me; I…

Jennifer BlankfeinJuly 1, 2022

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured

Dennis Hetzel Talks Crafting and Conceptualizing a Thriller

Journalist Olivia Claven is just trying to get it together. Between her recent string of job losses, a pile of debt and the death of her fiancé, she’s been reduced to living with her parents and running a local news website. Then one day she gets a news tip that…

BookTribSeptember 13, 2021

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

BREAKING NEWS: Books With Reporters as Main Characters

Having a journalist as the main character is good news and bad news. The good news is that it solves one of the trickiest problems in crime fiction writing: if your character is not in law enforcement of some kind (or at least a private detective) and they come across…

Hank Phillippi RyanJuly 29, 2021

Miscellany Podcasts

Podcast: Visiting Trident Booksellers & Cafe for ‘Sid Sanford Lives!’

BookTrib.com recently added the podcast Writer’s Bone to our weekly features. Daniel Ford and Sean Tuohy have been bringing us weekly podcasts of discussions they have with writers about the craft of writing and what motivates them to tell a good story. We hope you enjoy this series as much as we do.…

Daniel FordSeptember 29, 2017

Author Rick Pullen Gets Fired Up Over His New Book, ‘The Apprentice’

Treasure Hunters Seek WWII Art Looted by Nazis

Crime and Bias Collide in Tamron Hall’s Heart-Hammering New Thriller “As the Wicked Watch”

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

Elliot Ackerman Has Endless Inspiration for ‘Dark At the Crossing’

Author and Podcaster Zibby Owens Gets Real in Her Newly-Released Memoir “Bookends”

Dennis Hetzel Talks Crafting and Conceptualizing a Thriller

BREAKING NEWS: Books With Reporters as Main Characters

Podcast: Visiting Trident Booksellers & Cafe for ‘Sid Sanford Lives!’

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