By Charles Salzberg You wouldn’t think a trained aerospace engineer would wind up authoring a book that offers “a new approach for writing that avoids the pitfalls of extensive and laborious searching,…
Nonfiction
Stories matter. All types of stories. In 1815, a remote Pacific island exploded, triggering global famine, epidemic, and summer snow in New England. It also sparked a wine-and-sex-and-story huddle on the other…
The Writer’s Tool Box Do you want to start writing? Are you having trouble sticking to it? Now that it’s finished, what’s your next step? THE WRITER’S TOOL BOX presents a clear,…
By Jaden Terrell Liese Sherwood-Fabre’s first memory of Sherlock Holmes was watching old black and white Basil Rathbone movies after school. As he’s done for more than a century—even inspiring cartoon characters…
Stop stressing and learn to chill with this mindfulness and meditation guidebook that can help workaholics and others let go of anxiety and achieve and maintain the healthy work/life balance they need.…
The year is 1942 and World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and…
ADRENALINE JUNKIE is more than a renowned, multi-award-winning author entertaining with his life history. Les Edgerton understands that backstory matters. It influences the present. So he journeyed through his past seeking answers…
PULP ACCORDING TO DAVID GOODIS starts with six characteristics of 1950s pulp noir that fascinated mass-market readers, making them wish they were the protagonist, and yet feel relief that they were not.…
By Charles Salzberg “I don’t remember a time when I didn’t know about Sherlock Holmes,” says Liese Sherwood-Fabre, author of THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: ESSAYS ON VICTORIAN ENGLAND, a…
By Charlie Cochrane Variety, as the old saw has it, is the spice of life. Every so often, a book shows up in The Big Thrill list that’s a bit different and…
By Terri Nolan Cara Brookins’ memoir has three sentences alone on a front page. They read: “Our task was both extreme and simple. My family needed sanctuary. So we built it.” And…
The Haunting Tragedy of an Abduction in Iran By Nancy Bilyeau In December 2011, a disturbing video hit the news. In the brief clip, an American in his sixties, Robert Levinson, missing since…
The True Story of Dusko Popov—World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond By J. H. Bográn How to tell apart a James Bond movie fan from one…
By Nancy Bilyeau In 1763 a noticeably nervous James Boswell made the acquaintance of poet-editor-essayist-lexicographer Samuel Johnson in Davies’ Bookshop in Covent Garden. Boswell’s subsequent years of intense observation of the great man led…
By Jeff Ayers It was planned to look like a suicide but even in the best-laid plans evidence is left behind… Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the living room floor…
By Jeff Ayers The author of more than fifty books—125 million copies in print—Clive Cussler is the current grandmaster of adventure literature. Dirk Pitt, the sea-loving protagonist of twenty-two of Cussler’s novels,…
All too often, following the “rules” of writing can constrict rather than inspire you. With Story Trumps Structure, you can shed those rules—about three-act structure, rising action, outlining, and more—to craft your…
By Azam Gill KILLER NURSE, John Foxjohn’s first non-fiction work, is set to be as successful as his widely read fiction. In 2012 a Texas court sentenced Nurse Kimberly Clark Saenz for…
Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot, told by James Swanson, author of the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller…
In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married…
By Ian Walkley Aficionados of the epic fantasy series THE DARK TOWER will be delighted at the April release (from NAL) of THE DARK TOWER COMPANION by Bev Vincent, the foremost authority…
By Kathleen Sharp It was going to be difficult, if not impossible, to get into the Black Tower. I had no crampons, harness or rope, and security on the top floor was…
By Michael F. Stewart TOP SECRET Do not read further—classified materials. Reading this interview may improve your writing and help you land that next big advance due to the clandestine techniques learned…
Have you ever wondered why some books are adapted into movies, and others aren’t? Or wished you could sit down and talk to the people whose stories have been adapted–and pick the…