Looking to fall in love with some new romance reads? You’ll adore these exciting new novels! This week you can get your hands on books by bestselling authors P. Dangelico, Jamie Beck, Sawyer Bennett, Carrie Ann Ryan, and more. Enjoy your new romance books and happy reading!
Literary fiction readers are in for a treat. This week’s latest releases list is full of intriguing reads you won’t want to miss! The new releases list includes so many bestselling authors like Tim Westover, Margaret Atwood, Heddi Goodrich, Alix E. Harrow, and many more. Enjoy your new literary fiction books. Happy reading!
Set off on an adventure to new worlds this week! This selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Science Fiction fans should be excited about the latest from bestselling authors Dr. Richard, Tim Smith, Rick Partlow, Jude Hardin, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from Chase Blackwood, David T. Myers, Rebecca Moesta, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading!
Are you an avid reader of Young Adult books? This week you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite book to add to your reading list. This week includes new novels from bestselling authors Orson Scott Card, Kerri Maniscalco, Megan Cooley Peterson, and many more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
Looking for some new biography and memoir books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new novels from Derrick Rose, Bob Stoops, Kevin P. Rafferty, Neil Gorsuch, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
What can you tell us about your new release, The Star of Fate?
The Star of Fate is an urban fantasy thriller set in Melbourne, Australia. The story follows Lando Bailey, whose life hasn't turned out as planned. Through a mixture of bad choices and poor luck, he's hit rock bottom, and now all he wants is the chance to turn his life around, to change his fate. Then Lando comes into possession of a mysterious crystal ball, the Star of Fate, which belongs to the Moirai, the Greek Goddesses of Fate. The Moirai start manipulating his destiny, and he finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation, and a secret war between two cults. Hunted by shadow monsters, shaman and a demigod, Lando finds himself on the run from one Melbourne suburb to the next. As he confronts the forces aligned against him, he will have to reconcile his past mistakes and make peace with a future that he can't control.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I've always wanted to be an author. My friends and I used to create stories and characters at school. As a group, we've always aspired to write.
Before starting this book, I mainly wrote shorts stories or the first three chapters of various novels. The following advice from Neil Gaiman has been my guiding light to complete this writing project, and get past that dreaded fourth chapter. "You have to finish things — that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
Hmm, tricky. I like so many different books for a variety of various reasons. Off the top of my head:
A storm of swords (A song of Fire and Ice book 3) by George R R Martin
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Probably Joss Whedon. I'd love to pick his brain on his approach to creating character and relationships that readers fall in love with.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Writing has forced me to read more and read outside my usual genres and exposed me to new authors and a greater appreciation of their work and style.
What is a typical day like for you?
I work a day job, and usually, need to walk both my kids to school. On the commute to and from work, I will write on the train for about 25-30 min each way. Once home, we get the kids into bed by about 8pm. After that, I either write or do admin for my writing business until about 9:30 pm. From then, I chill or unwind until bed.
What scene in The Star of Fate was your favorite to write?
The climactic battle at the end of the book was fun to write, once I found it. I wrote four or five different versions before I was happy with the ending, but when the final version came together, it was really rewarding.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Per ardua ad astra – Through adversity to the stars.
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What can you tell us about your new release, The Clockwork House?
My newest release The Clockwork House, despite being the twelfth book I’ve published, is actually my first standalone novel. It’s a fast paced, mystery suspense about a young woman who discovers she’s inherited a house on an island off the coast of Maine. When she arrives on the island, she discovers that the house has a dark history that leads back to one fateful night in 1919 and the disappearance of dozens of children. It’s a story of unraveling family secrets and of course, ghosts. You can’t have a rambling old Victorian house on a cliff top without a little paranormal activity.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I can’t say it was any one particular thing or person. I’ve always been an avid reader with a very vivid imagination. Anyone who knew me as a kid would always say that I was a dreamer, but the truth was I just shy and liked to exist in the little fantasy worlds I created. I think I was about seventeen when I first thought about putting them to paper and that was the beginning of my journey to becoming a writer. When I look back to my childhood, the signs were all there from very early on. I never had that lightbulb moment where I snapped my fingers and went, you know what? I think I’ll become a writer. I never looked at another person’s books and said to myself, hey! that’s what I want to do. It was more a gradual realization of, you know what? this is who I am.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
That’s a tough one, I like trilogies and series, and as the story arcs tend to span several books it’s hard to pick a single book. I love David and Leigh Eddings, The Belgariad, at fifteen years old, this was the story that made me fall in love with magic and long running series.
I also loved The Daughter of the Empire trilogy by Raymond Feist, he introduced me to a strong female lead, one who didn’t hang around waiting for some guy to come save her, she did a pretty awesome job of not only saving herself but revolutionizing an empire.
Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine was another great one, she introduced me to the concept of reincarnation, of past and present lives colliding. I loved that she wrote the past and the present, so they ran alongside each other in tandem, slipping back and forth seamlessly until the final resolution.
I’ve enjoyed also Nora Roberts, Three Sisters Island trilogy, this was the story that showed me I didn’t have to live in middle earth for magic to be real, that it could be blended with the real-world and set in the present day.
Finally, and most recently I have enjoyed A Discovery of Witches, by the lovely Deborah Harkness. I loved the way she threw her characters back in time and basically set the entire middle section of the story in Elizabethan England.
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
The guest, that’s easy, Neil Gaiman. I love his books and his quirky style of writing. The question, not so easy. I don’t think there’s any one particular thing I’d like to ask him, more like I’d just love to sit down and have a random conversation with him.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
The endless possibilities, I guess. It’s always a surprise when things don’t exactly turn out the way I thought, or when things I hadn’t intended slot together seamlessly as if it were part of some grand unconscious plan. I’m like damn, am I that good? Or just incredibly lucky? I suspect it’s probably the latter. One of the things I love about writing is how real my characters are to me. It’s like they’re all sitting around in a green room somewhere drinking tea and waiting for me to call them in, then when they turn up, they’re like hi, this is my name, let me tell you a bit about my back story.
What is a typical day like for you?
I permanently exist in a state of disorganized chaos. I never have a plan, if I have a list, I not only don’t stick to the list, I’ll probably lose the list. Sometimes I write all day, some days I’ll hopelessly procrastinate, surfing Facebook and taking random quizzes to see how good my knowledge of eighties movies are (its excellent by the way) then I’ll cram a couple of thousand words in before bed, then won’t be able to sleep because my head’s full of story.
My husband loves to continuously throw the words ‘effective time management’ at me, but they bounce straight back off. I literally drive him nuts. I hope one day I’ll just wake up and be ruthlessly organized but alas, that really isn’t going to happen.
I continue to kill any form of houseplant because I forget they’re there and am hopelessly distracted by shiny objects, but when I’m in the zone I will live and breathe the story I’m writing, because I can’t not write, it’s like not breathing. After every single book I’ve written I always say I’m going to take a nice long break, but I think the longest I managed to go before I picked up my next project was forty-eight hours and that was including the nap I took.
What scene in The Clockwork House was your favorite to write?
Hmmm, that’s another tough one. I don’t want to give too much away but the scene with the frying pan made me smile. I don’t think I have a particular favorite scene, but I enjoyed writing all the little flashbacks into the past. It was fun trying to write them without giving away names and details. I wanted to give my readers lots of little puzzle pieces, so that as I introduce information to my characters, my readers were trying to figure out the mystery. This story doesn’t just sweep you along and hand out information, I hope it keeps you guessing until the last minute.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
‘If you can imagine it, you can make it happen.’ I’m a big believer in the law of attraction and positive thinking. If there’s something you desperately want to do, get out there and make it happen. The only person holding you back is you. Believe in yourself and be fearless. If not, fake it til you make it.
Wendy Saunders is the author of the new book The Clockwork House.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Tetrastatum?
Tetrastatum (the fourth state) is the culmination of my 30 years working in the field of Photonics. I am an avid reader of SciFi and wanted to create a new type of work that is both educational and entertaining in the science fiction genre. Tetrastatum gives the reader a unique understanding of the existing laws of physics and extends them to provoke further thought from novice readers as well as advanced experts in the field. The novel introduces my extension of Schrödinger’s equation deriving a dualistic image wave equation (the Unified Equation of Reality). The book ultimately explains how human perceptions alter the future and puts forth a mathematical model based on quantum physics to explain “reality”.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I had the opportunity to present my work as a PhD candidate to Richard Feynman and interact socially with Stephen Hawking. Both of these titans were my inspirational teachers and provided the motivation to write the novel. As such, I dedicated the work to them. They were and are my inspiration in the exploration of the natural world.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Being in Time, Martin Heidegger
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Space Odyssey series, Arthur C. Clarke
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Thomas Pynchon. How did you develop the idea for the novel Gravity’s Rainbow? What do you believe lies Beyond the Zero?
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Writing is a form of therapy for me, putting my innermost thoughts on paper. I can explore the rational, the irrational and assemble ideas like a child playing in a sandbox. I build sandcastles for all to see until they are blown down by the wind, washed out by the rain, stomped on by my playmates and become simply grains of sand once again. Then it is time to start anew and do it all over again.
What is a typical day like for you?
I spend most of my days thinking about physics, reading, researching and of course, writing.
What scene in Tetrastatum was your favorite to write?
Marcus Rodriguez, the co-author of the book and I both enjoyed the “The Trial of Reality” scene in Chapter X: Resurrection of Reality. This scene was the most challenging to write as it ties together the open plot points and is the emotional, intellectual crescendo of the novel.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Cut the Eyeball. A reference to viewing Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s 1929 surrealist film Un Chien Andalou and the title of my friend Norith Soth’s book on writing screenplays. Tetrastatum was written with this philosophy in mind. Any work of merit should be disturbing and evoke a strong response, causing readers/viewers to question the fundamental beliefs of a society.
Dr. Richard is the author of the new book Tetrastatum.
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What can you tell us about your new release, You Can Have Manhattan?
You Can Have Manhattan is a marriage of convenience trope between a high powered attorney and a reformed playboy. Coming up with a plausible reason why two people would need to marry in today’s day and age was both challenging and fun. Once the hook was established, it basically wrote itself.
What books are currently on your nightstand?
Currently I’m reading Stacey Lynn’s Cocky Player, Sara Ney’s Jock Road, and Kate Canterbary’s Far Cry.
What advice would you give your teenage self?
Hang in there and keep going.
What makes your world go round? Why does it bring you joy?
Honestly, my pets. Lol. My furry babies give me more joy than I could ever return.
What scene in You Can Have Manhattan was your favorite to write?
My favorite scene is when Sydney, the heroine, revenge decorates Scott’s, the hero’s bedroom with creepy clown paintings.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Into the Fold?
I can tell you that “Into the Fold” comes out on September 10th, 2019. I can say that it is the longest book in the series thus far, and that’s a good thing. I can tell you that it continues the storyline from “Tower of the Arkein” and answers a few lingering questions. The book also introduces some new and interesting characters. The rest, however, is classified, and you must read to find out.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
There have been many inspirations to my writing over the years, but who or what inspired me originally? I am unsure. I have been writing since I was young and I honestly don’t recall how I originally became inspired. Perhaps it was traveling since a young age? Seeing the history of Europe through the lens of a child’s eyes or walking through the jungles of a Caribbean Island and listening to the sounds of the forest, may have played a small part.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
This is always a difficult question as there have been so many good books written. There are obviously books that stand out in my memory. These are books that I’ve read at different times in my life and have truly enjoyed. In no particular order:
The Name of the Wind; Pillars of the Earth; Guns, Germs, and Steal; On Killing; and The Death Gate Cycle.
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
First, I’m not sure if you’d want me to be the host of a literary talk show. But I’ll play your game. My first guest? I’d probably want to pick an indie writer who’s had some success and pick their brain. It would be focused on everything from creation to marketing and how a measure of financial success and even a hint of fame, has changed their life.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
My favorite thing about writing is the creative process. It is inventing a new world, a unique culture, and making the characters come alive within this vividly real space.
What is a typical day like for you?
I don’t often have overly typical days. But, I’d say, like most people, it involves work, a home routine, and working out when times allows. Oh, let’s not forget writing! I do try to incorporate that whenever feasible.
What scene in Into the Fold was your favorite to write?
I think the scenes I enjoyed most were in Part 3 of “Into the Fold.” Finding the Sages of Umbra required puzzles, fun character interactions and a constant sense of tension.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
There are a few quotes/mottos that will cycle through my head depending on the day and the challenges faced.
“I’ll get enough rest when I’m dead.” These are on days of great exhaustion.
“The only easy day is yesterday.” Similarly, but more of physical challenges, or high levels of stress.
“If everyone likes you or everyone hates you, you’re doing something wrong.” Just something my friend said recently that rings true.
Chase Blackwood is the author of the new book Into the Fold.
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