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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 Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Dana Reinhardt, Takis Würger, Kate Hope Day, 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 Patrick Edwards, Tade Thompson, Ryan Schow, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from Tamara Grantham, Samuel R. George, Richard Denoncourt, 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 Laurie Halse Anderson, V.E. Schwab, Crystal Smith, Mindy McGinnis, 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 Gianni Russo, Olivia Newton-John, Cara Robertson, Andrew Rannells, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
What can you tell us about your new release,Savant, Feral & Seer?
It's a boxed set that contains the first 3 novels in my epic fantasy series, which is based on Greek mythology, but contains a whole new cast of gods, demigods, and heroes set in an original fantasy world.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
Definitely reading the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King (I loved the Dark Tower books) and others like them. I remember reading Harry Potter and a book about greek myths back in my teenage years, and thinking "A mashup of these two would be cool."
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
In order from best to "less best": The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman, The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, 1984 by George Orwell, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, and The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
My first guest would be JK Rowling. I'd ask her about her daily writing routine when she was working on Harry Potter and some of the challenges she faced becoming so successful over the course of so few years after her debut.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Feeling in control of an entire world.
What is a typical day like for you?
I typically get up an hour or two before I have to leave for work, and I write or revise. Then I spend (too much) time at work, recruiting for my company. After that, my wife and I like to make dinner and watch TV. I usually get home an hour to an hour and a half earlier than she does, so I used that time to read. I also read for a half hour before I got to sleep.
What scene inSavant, Feral & Seer was your favorite to write?
Definitely the scene in Seer when one of the main characters wakes up from a coma to find that the world has changed, and not for the better. Then she and her friends have to decide what to do to save everyone. Not all of the characters agree on a path to salvation, so there's a lot of drama and conflict there.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Take it one day at a time. That's the only way I've been able to grasp all the work of writing a novel, and especially writing an epic fantasy series. Just take it one day at a time. Make each day worthwhile by producing something, anything.
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What can you tell us about your new release, The Candidate and Other Stories?
They are designed as pure escapism; don’t look for profundity or morality. On the other hand, I’m not sure a writer is qualified to comment on his own work, who knows what the deep subconscious has imbedded in a writer’s prose?
What or who inspired you to become an author?
My aunt, Rosel George Brown, was a science fiction writer. She was so witty and sophisticated, I decided early on to emulate her.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
“Master and Commander” by Patrick O’Brian.
“Naked Lunch” by William S. Burroughs.
“The Sign of Four” by Sir Arthur Canon Doyle.
“The Odyssey” by Homer.
“The Plague” by Albert Camus.
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
My first guest would be the skull of Edgar Allan Poe, and after I drank a mixture of blood and Merlot from it, I wouldn’t need to ask anything because then I would know.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
The humbling effect and the arrogance, both come from putting oneself on the same level as Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Heinlein, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, de Sade, Masoch, and the list goes on.
What is a typical day like for you?
It begins with gratefulness for being alive for another day, and with keen pleasure knowing there is no such thing as god so I don’t have to be grateful to anything but the random events that got me here. The day ends with the punishment reward system caressing or thrashing me for producing (or not producing) text.
What scene inThe Candidate and Other Stories was your favorite to write?
Perhaps the scene in “Harold” when he escapes the homunculus sized Colosseum where the evil Pamela Perkins pits him against the savage Tabby named Thomas.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
No. That would be pretentious. But if I did it would be Memento Mori; Remember you will die.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Innocence Lost?
Innocence Lost is the first book of a five book series Bootleggers’ Chronicles. The inspiration for the series is a quote by Martin Luther King, Jr: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.”
So much of the crime that sprang up In America during Prohibition (time period for the novels) came about not because of evil people, but because good people stood by and did nothing while evil happened.
The main character, a widow with a young son, must decide how she is going to respond when a young boy is murdered by bootleggers.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I’ve always been a voracious reader, and like most people who love to read, I’ve always wondered about whether I could write a book. When I retired, I cast around for what the next chapter of my life would look like and decided to turn my hand to writing. With five books under my belt now and the next series started, I gotta’ say—I love it!
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Louise Penny and her early days and the struggles as she brought her first Gamache story to life.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
I love getting the idea and working it into an outline. Then the first draft is the next fave time. Very exciting to begin to see the story take shape. I’m not a big fan of editing.
What is a typical day like for you?
Super early riser- up around 4AM each morning. I write until 7, pack my husband’s lunchkit, write again from 9-noon, then my lunch, author stuff until 4 and then start supper.
What scene in Innocence Lost was your favorite to write?
The scene where Maggie realizes that Frank is a ghost. She’s a very practical, common-sense person confronted by the unexplainable. He’s a Victorian police inspector struggling to let go of his preconceptions about women and learn to work with a woman in 1920.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Life’s roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors.
Perfection is the enemy of done.
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What can you tell us about your new release, The Witch's Tower?
It started with an image. I wanted to know what it would really be like to have dozens of feet of hair, and how manageable such a situation could’ve been, so the image of a bedridden Rapunzel came to mind. Add to that the inability to wash or brush your hair, and an even starker image of a crazed Rapunzel trapped in a tower surrounded by unwashed hair replaced the fairy tale everyone’s familiar with. I was also bothered by how the fairy tale ended, with the witch chopping off Rapunzel’s hair, so I envisioned a benevolent witch, who is helping Rapunzel cut her hair so she can be free of its curse. Needless to say, this is a twisted version of Rapunzel, but it offers a vision of hope as well—that not every witch is evil.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
My uncle and my sister. Both were authors who encouraged me to write a book. I thought they were crazy. Writing a book seemed like a daunting task—one too difficult for me to accomplish. But their challenge always stayed with me until I finally gave in. I wrote my first book in September 2010 and I haven’t stopped since.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, The Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling, I Am Morgan le Fay by Nancy Springer
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
I would invite my uncle. He passed away a decade ago. I’d ask if he knew I was writing.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
I love the creative outlet. Like almost everyone on the planet, my life is chaotic. I’ve got five kids who keep me constantly busy, and my “sacred writing time” gives me a way to use my creativity and imagine worlds of adventure and magic. I can’t imagine my life without writing. I’m always thinking of the next story.
What is a typical day like for you?
I get my writing done early before the “witching hour” AKA “the time after the kids get home from school.” I have a four-year old who stays home with me, so I usually play with him after the kids go to school, then I write for a few hours. I aim to write 1,000 words a day, which is about four pages. In the afternoons I focus on marketing and social media, then I become a glorified taxi driver for the rest of the evening. At night, I take time for my own reading.
What scene in The Witch's Tower was your favorite to write?
That’s a tough one. It’s hard to pick just one, but I’d have to say it’s when Gothel enters the Outerlands for the first time. I read a book called The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright. In the book, he describes the scent of curry, and how it infused the air during traditional Indian meals. The culture in the Outerlands is similar to that found in Arabia or India, so I wanted to include details that hinted at that—thus, the scent of curry. I loved delving into Arabic cultures and including details in The Witch’s Tower.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
“A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.” -Maya Angelou. Also, my tagline is “Imagination Uncaged” which comes from this quote. In my own life, my imagination is my path to freedom, which is a theme that occurs frequently in my own books.
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