Before becoming a published novelist, I was an independent bookseller and buyer, a Publishers Weekly reviewer, a freelance editor, and a window washer. My first book was published in 2003 and by the end of 2008, I will have had 12 books published.
People who regularly read my blogs know I make it a habit never to write bad things about other writers' books. Not trying to dictate what others should do - it's just a personal philosophy. But every now and then a writer says or does something that, well, gets on my nerves. And since this little squib I ripped out of the New York Times Book Review has been sitting on my desk since October 18 ...
Over at BiblioBuffet I've got a new piece up called "People are Dying in There" about school violence in fiction and nonfiction, focusing on the novels The Hate List, Nineteen Minutes, and We Need to Talk about Kevin, and the nonfiction Columbine. If you scroll down to the bottom there's also a way you can enter to win the first four books in The Sisters 8 series.How about you? Read ...
BEST INTENTIONS, Emily Listfield.From the flap copy:After tossing and turning all night, thirty-nine-year-old Lisa Barkley wakes up well before her alarm sounds. With two daughters about to start another year at their elite Upper East Side private school and her own career hitting a wall, the effort of trying to stay afloat in that privileged world of six-story town houses and European jaunts has ...
