A standing-room only crowd packed the Copper Tavern in Manhattan earlier this week for the first mediabistro.com Book Club. The four featured writers pictured above read excerpts from their books and offered one-on-one advice to aspiring authors in the audience. From left to right, the authors were: An Irreverent Curiosity author David Farely, Cemetery Road author Gar Anthony Haywood, Getting In a...

E.H On Books and More asks us this week to talk about the authors we love: Tell your readers what is it about “an” author that you are most passionate about, that have you coming back for more from them, following their every blog post – literally blackmailing people to read their books? Who are some of

I got to thinking recently about all the authors I typically recommend.  There are some heavy favorites, and not just by me, on my list, but I started wondering…am I missing someone who I’ve read and have simply forgotten to add?  I’ve read a lot of new authors since then and I seriously have this feeling that I’m missing some great novels. I’ll be honest, m...

A Trio of Zweig, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. While I’ve been on a blogging break during these past couple of weeks I’ve also taken the opportunity to get a bit ‘freestyle’ with my reading – dipping in and out of whatever bookish delights have taken my fancy. And one of the authors who has

Last month I took a class on Tweens through ALA, taught by Ed Sullivan One of the fun things about the class was that the teacher got many authors to talk about their work with the students. One of the authors we got to talk with is Kelly Milner Halls, so I read five of her books. Overall, what I really like about her work is that she picks topics that kids want to read about. She covers these top...

Struggles Over eBooks Continue Amazon and Macmillan seem to be coming to a grudging agreement after last week’s standoff. I think everyone was surprised to see Amazon use its muscle to pull all Macmillan content from their store… and cave in to Macmillan’s demands. The Authors Guild is still pursuing their lawsuit against Google for the use of scanned texts

Last night Pakistani-American debut author Daniyal Mueenuddin won the $20,000 Story Prize for his collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Finalists Victoria Patterson (Drift) and Wells Tower (Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned) will each receive $5,000. The authors were chosen from among 78 submissions from publishers. GalleyCat was there at the event as the finalists read from their work an...

Paul McAuley has placed twice in SF Site's Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2009: Readers' Choice Poll, with Gardens of the Sun at #10 and The Quiet War at # 6. Both books are tied with other works (Cory Doctorow's Makers and Adam Roberts' Yellow Blue Tibia respectively). Congratulations to all the authors selected!

I wouldn’t call it an incentive, but for the New Author Mini Challenge, featuring the authors of the League of Reluctant Adults, there were a few books offered up as prizes.  Specifically, there are 35 books up for grabs. Just as a reminder, the idea was to read up to five different League novels and then review it in at least one spot, with an additional entry if it was also poste...

Up until now the Shutter Island (both film and novel) - Brontë mentions were slowly dripping. Today it looks like a flood. About the novel itself. The Toledo Blade: Asked which gothic novelists he has been inspired by, [author of the novel, Dennis] Lehane says, "Oh, the girls. The Brontes, Mary Shelley," citing the authors of Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), and...