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Interview with Charles Salzberg
By Greg Ziegler It’s hot. New York City hot. Today is the first day of a heat wave and even though its only midmorning I can feel the humidity lying in wait at my feet […]
Month: August 2024
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Nicholas Meyer on Sherlock Holmes, Sigmund Freud, and “Process”
Nicholas Meyer is an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and film director born and raised in New York City. He has written several Sherlock Holmes novels, including his best-selling and award-winning debut novel, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, in […]
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SEVEN HOLMES NOVELS and HOW THEY GREW
By Nicholas Meyer It is hard for me to remember a world before Holmes. I was eleven when my father presented me with the complete Sherlock Holmes stories. What I do remember, as if it […]
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William Kent Krueger on Cork O’Connor, the Ojibwe Nation, and Spirit Crossing
William Kent Krueger is the author of the celebrated Cork O’Connor novels. With the series’ newest novel, Spirit Crossing, which comes out on August 20th, the Strand was honored to be able to sit down […]
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Bonnie Kistler peels back the layers of “Shell Games”
Interviewed by Mimi Bhalla Bonnie Kistler is the author of thriller novels such as Shell Games; Her, Too; The Cage; and House on Fire. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College […]
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Behind the Evelyne Redfern Mystery Series with Julia Kelly
Interviewed by Mimi Bhalla Julia Kelly is an international bestselling author of historical drama novels and the Evelyne Redfern historical mystery series. Besides her whodunit writing career, she’s an Emmy-nominated producer, journalist, and marketing professional. […]
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Author Gary Braver on Science, Fiction, and Rumor of Evil.
Gary Braver is the best-selling and acclaimed author of ten mysteries and thrillers, including Elixir, Gray Matter, and Flashback, which is the only thriller to have won the acclaimed Massachusetts Book Award. His latest novel […]
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A Hybrid Author’s Approach to Finding an Agent
By Nicholas Sansbury Smith In 2018 I spoke to a crowd of hundreds of indie authors at the 50 Books conference and started by saying, “it has never been a better time in history to […]
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Why BookTok Is So Addicting
By Shannon Lee Gaining imminent traction since 2020 in the U.S. and expanding the popularity of authors, book recommendations, and influencers, BookTok continues to solidify its status as a formidable force in the publishing industry. […]
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Crime Reading for a Summer’s Evening
British women’s fiction author, Liz Fielding, winner of the Daphne du Maurier award for excellence in mystery suspense, has not only been writing this summer, she has been reading across the genre. These are some […]