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Tall Poppy Bloggers Recommend: Heartwarming Holiday Reads

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — and it just might be the most wonderful time for books as well! In addition to sharing a few of my can’t-miss sweet reads for the holiday season, I asked favorite book influencers to share what stories are making them feel…

Kristy Woodson HarveyDecember 16, 2021

Miscellany

Four Ways to Keep a Series Fresh (Without Repeating Yourself)

Who hasn’t finished the latest installment in a favorite series and then hurried over to the author’s website: Will there be a new book? Is the author actually working on it? When can I read it? I felt the same way — until I was the author and understood how…

Connie BerryDecember 18, 2025

Thrillers

The Return of Bailey Weggins: Author Kate White Talks About Her Latest Book, ‘Even If It Kills Her’

She started out as a writer for a major women's magazine, before becoming an amateur sleuth with a brief moment of work for a celebrity gossip publication, and then turned true crime journalist. But rather than being the tortured lead character who often thinks that the people she loves…

BookTribOctober 25, 2017

Miscellany

This Is Your Brain on Tropes: Why Readers are Addicted to the Familiar

Readers swear they’re tired of clichés. They roll their eyes at the “chosen one,” the “grumpy-sunshine romance,” the “ragtag crew who saves the world.” Yet, whenever a new book with those very tropes drops, it rockets up bestseller lists. Why? Because tropes aren’t just lazy storytelling, as so many people…

Monique SnymanAugust 27, 2025

Book Club Network Fiction Fiction - Featured

From a Barroom in England to the Streets of Italy, Sarah Winman’s “Still Life” Is Life Well-Lived

If you had the opportunity to read Tin Man, a beautiful story of love, loss and art by Sarah Winman and loved it like I did, then you cannot miss Still Life, her latest novel! Still Life is a lovely meandering through lives well-lived where the eclectic characters choose their…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 14, 2022

Miscellany

Where the Writer Ends and the Story Begins

It’s the most paradoxical idea of all. Somehow, it’s both the most tempting and the most potentially disastrous. Because if we’re supposed to “write what you love” and “write what you fear,” all of us have those same passions and apprehensions about the same thing: writing! So what could be…

Hank Phillippi RyanMay 23, 2025

Listicles Young Adult

7 YA Fantasy Novels That Invent Captivating New Creatures

Sometimes you really just need to get out of your own life by getting into a book. A 600-page Russian drama? Not it. A thought-provoking nonfiction book that scares you into believing society truly is doomed? Not it. A cheery positivity book about gratitude? Overcompensating. What’s a reader to do?…

Judy MorenoJanuary 25, 2022

Fiction Miscellany

Secrets, Sibling Bonds, and the Scars of Loss

Author Louise Ells shares the story behind her new novel, Lies I Told My Sister. Taking place over just 17 hours and alternating between past and present, the novel follows the strained relationship of estranged sisters Rose and Lily, as issues of their childhood, the death of their older sister,…

Louise EllsNovember 6, 2024

Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured

An Unconventional Ride: 8 Daring Novels of Train Travel

You love to travel. No, wait, I’m not overgeneralizing! Hear me out, because I have an argument all prepared. You might have instantly thought, “yes, she read my mind!” Maybe you’re a bold backpacker who is willing to risk the discomfort of hostels in order to get that authentic experience.…

Judy MorenoJanuary 31, 2022

Better Self Better Self - Featured Book Club Network Business Nonfiction

An Invitation You’ll Want to Accept: Find Your “Uncommon Courage”

The first thing I thought when I picked up Uncommon Courage by global award-winning B2B communications professional and certified speaker Andrea T Edwards was, “what a BIG book!” But the subtitle is “An Invitation” so how can you pass that up? And then cracking open the book, it looked so…

Barbara WilkovFebruary 7, 2022

Miscellany Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Easy Guide to Finding Your Voice as a Writer

How to Write Like a Writer (Harper Perennial) by educator and New York Times best-selling author Thomas C. Foster may soon become an essential addition to home and office library bookshelves. His inspirational magic formula for finding one’s voice and communicating clearly comes from forty years of experience in effectively…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 19, 2022

Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

The Strand Magazine Announces the 2021 Strand Critics Award Nominations

The Strand Magazine is pleased to announce the nominations for the 2021 Strand Critics Awards! Recognizing excellence in the field of mystery fiction and publishing, the 2021 Strand Critics Awards are judged by a select group of book critics and journalists. This year’s judges include talent from NPR, USA Today, The…

BookTribJune 18, 2021

Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

The Strand Magazine Announces the 2021 Strand Critics Award Winners!

The Strand Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Strand Critics Awards! The Strand is a leading source of the latest news on thrillers and mysteries and is a hotspot for all things related to the genre. It has published many exciting works from such giants as…

Judy MorenoOctober 6, 2021

Thrillers

From ‘First Blood’ Until Now, David Morrell Shares His Journey

David Morrell shakes his head when someone tells him he was an overnight success. Yes, he had a book contract signed shortly after submitting his thriller, First Blood, to his agent, Henry Morrison. And within a year his fame was worldwide. Many dream, but few accomplish what he did. But…

Rick PullenNovember 1, 2017

Thrillers

Interview with Stacy Green and Killing Jane (Video)

WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU’VE EVER HEARD ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER IS WRONG … A young woman is brutally murdered in Washington D.C., and the killer leaves behind a calling card connected to some of the most infamous murders in history. JACK THE RIPPER Rookie homicide investigator Erin Prince instinctively knows…

BookTribJanuary 31, 2017

Romance

It’s not what you write, it’s where you write it

By J. Kenner All my books have a place. And I don’t mean the setting. I mean The Place where the book was primarily written (I might switch locations now and then, but each book has a Center of Operations)—and that place is inextricably tied up in my mind with…

BookTrib Guest AuthorApril 1, 2014

Tall Poppy Bloggers Recommend: Heartwarming Holiday Reads

Four Ways to Keep a Series Fresh (Without Repeating Yourself)

The Return of Bailey Weggins: Author Kate White Talks About Her Latest Book, ‘Even If It Kills Her’

This Is Your Brain on Tropes: Why Readers are Addicted to the Familiar

From a Barroom in England to the Streets of Italy, Sarah Winman’s “Still Life” Is Life Well-Lived

Where the Writer Ends and the Story Begins

7 YA Fantasy Novels That Invent Captivating New Creatures

An Unconventional Ride: 8 Daring Novels of Train Travel

An Invitation You’ll Want to Accept: Find Your “Uncommon Courage”

Easy Guide to Finding Your Voice as a Writer

The Strand Magazine Announces the 2021 Strand Critics Award Nominations

The Strand Magazine Announces the 2021 Strand Critics Award Winners!

From ‘First Blood’ Until Now, David Morrell Shares His Journey

Interview with Stacy Green and Killing Jane (Video)

It’s not what you write, it’s where you write it

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