The Extraordinary Life of a Legend By Dawn Ius It’s difficult to adequately describe the impact of a literary legend—eve…
Features
Four Tips For Living and Working in Isolation from a Former Submarine Officer
By Brian Andrews With the possible exception of the International Space Station, deploying on a submarine hundreds of fe…
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Thriller Writing Industry
By Dawn Ius Andrea Bartz had big plans for the launch of her new thriller, The Herd—a multi-city book tour, in-person me…
On the Cover: Jennifer Hillier
Navigating Change—One Book at a Time By April Snellings Since her debut novel, Creep, hit shelves in 2011, Jennifer Hill…
BookTrib Spotlight: Sara Sligar
Art, Illness, Power – and Maybe Murder By Neil Nyren “Photography is violent. When we capture a subject in a photo, we s…
AudioFile Spotlight: Jason Reynolds
In Conversation with Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature AudioFile’s Josephine Reed spoke …
Career Pursuit: An Interview with Gary Phillips
Weaned on the images of Kirby and Steranko in comics and Hammett and Himes in prose, Gary Phillips was born under a bad …
Africa Scene: Tony Park
Returning to a Long-Lost Manuscript By Michael Sears Tony Park is the acclaimed author of 17 thrillers set in southern A…
Up Close: Clarissa Goenawan
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida By Charles Salzberg Full disclosure: This is my second encounter with Clarissa Goenaw…
Up Close: J. D. Barker
Navigating Multiple Paths to Publication By April Snellings There are as many paths to publication as there are writers …
Up Close: Alma Katsu
Going into the Deep By Adam Meyer Alma Katsu has a secret. Before she started writing THE DEEP—a supernatural suspense n…
Up Close: Linda Howard and Linda Jones
Navigating a Successful Collaboration By Jaden Terrell It begins before dawn. Linda Howard, often called the “Queen of R…
Up Close: Dean Koontz
Did Dean Koontz Predict a Global Pandemic? By Dawn Ius Let’s get this out of the way right here—no, Dean Koontz did not …
Up Close: David Baldacci
Continuing the Stride in WALK THE WIRE By Dawn Ius More than any other genre, thriller writers produce the kinds of char…
Up Close: Samantha M. Bailey
From the Darkest of Humanity to the Light By Josie Brown A woman hands her infant daughter to a “stranger” before fallin…
Up Close: Menna van Praag
A Whole New World By Dawn Ius Menna van Praag is no stranger to “magic”—five of her previous novels have included a spri…
Up Close: Humphrey Hawksley
Bringing the Suspense By Austin S. Camacho The end of the Cold War didn’t extinguish readers’ appetites for fast-paced s…
Up Close: Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
One Woman, Multiple Personas By Dawn Ius Maxine Mei-Fung Chung isn’t the first author to explore dissociative identity d…
Up Close: Marcia Clark
Vigilante Justice—Plan B By K. L. Romo Los Angeles defense attorney Samantha “Sam” Brinkman is an antihero e…
Up Close: Sarah Zettel
By Millie Naylor Hast Take family drama, pour on a shady past and a terrifying secret, and you’ll find yourself immersed…
Up Close: Tim O’Mara
Opioids, White Nationalism Explored in New Thriller By J. H. Bográn The latest novel from Tim O’Mara, THE HOOK, finds ex…
On the Cover: Rick Reed
Mining Information for Authenticity By Dawn Ius Rick Reed grew up around coal country, but he’s never been in a mine—so …
Up Close: Matthew Quirk
Mock Assassinations and Political Conspiracy By K. L. Romo In HOUR OF THE ASSASSIN, author Matthew Quirk spins a tale of…
ICONS: Mary Higgins Clark by April Snellings
Icons: Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020) By April Snellings Few authors have impacted the publishing industry, let alone th…