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Caroline Leavitt's eleventh novel, Cruel Beautiful World, is both a gripping page-turner and a deeply moving character study. Sisters Charlotte and Lucy lose their parents as young children and come to live wit... Read More...

Jonathan Maberry Strikes Again! YA Novel MARS ONE is a Galactic Home Run!

Amy M. Hawes

Reviews

Jonathan Maberry concocts his young adult novel about humankind's first venture to Mars from a blend of fiction and reality, a fusing that is the quintessential trademark of a Maberry creation. The novel brilli... Read More...

Find a Horse of Every Color in Rhonda Parrish’s Equus

Tabitha Lord

Reviews

I forget how much I enjoy short stories. Often an anthology isn't the first thing I pick up at the bookstore, but the experience of reading a well-curated collection is always satisfying. In the latest installm... Read More...

BCB’S own Tabitha Lord Discusses INFINITY, the Second Book in her Space Opera Series

Amy M. Hawes

Interviews

Eighteen months after her award-winning novel HORIZON hit the shelves, Tabitha Lord released the newest in her thrilling space opera collection. As her colleague at BCB, I'm so pleased to share that INFINITY ... Read More...

“If you’ve met one person with autism…”

Maribel Garcia

Interviews

“If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.” Best quote ever. I learned it from Liane Kupferberg Carter’s latest memoir, Ketchup is my Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows u... Read More...

One of Us Is Lying – An Interview With Karen McManus

Tabitha Lord

Interviews

In her fiction debut, Karen McManus delivers a compelling modern day Breakfast Club with a dark twist. Five students head to detention, but only four walk out alive. Told from multiple perspectives, One of Us I... Read More...

Under a Sardinian Sky – An Interview with Sara Alexander

Tabitha Lord

Interviews, on Books

Mina, a London-based travel writer, returns to her family's home in Sardinia to bury an aunt. With her mother also gravely ill, she worries that her family's history will be lost as the last of that generation ... Read More...

Eleanor Wasserberg discusses her debut novel FOXLOWE: A Unique Tale of Isolation and Shared Vision

Amy M. Hawes

Interviews

Foxlowe is a debut novel like no other. In it, Eleanor Wasserberg delves into the farthest recesses of the human psyche, delivering a story pulsing with tones of the macabre and possessive love. In telling the ... Read More...

A Conversation with Randall Fuller on The Book That Changed America

Tabitha Lord

Interviews

A Conversation with Randall Fuller on The Book That Changed America Join us for Author's Cut live on Wednesday, May 17th at 9:00 pm for an in-depth discussion with Dr. Fuller. Be sure to subscribe to... Read More...

Inside a Writer’s Mind: On Editing

Tabitha Lord

Literary Lagniappe, on Writing

I actually like book editing. The bones of my book are already there, and at that point, I know I have a good story. I’ve worked out the major plot tangles and character arcs, defined the conflicts, and sorted ... Read More...

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