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I first connected with Sally Koslow when I was asked to read her delightfully funny The Late, Lamented Molly Marx for a possible blurb - a first for me - and …

[Read more...] about Sally Koslow: Magazine Editor Turns Novelist

Joshua Henkin wanted to be a fiction writer when he was growing up but, like so many of us, feared he wasn't good enough. But his second novel, Matrimony - …

[Read more...] about Joshua Henkin: Risking Failure

Last year I had the pleasure of hosting debut novelist Camille Noe Pagán when The Art of Forgetting, was published by Dutton. I'm delighted now to rerun her …

[Read more...] about Camille Noe Pagán: Would I Steal these Scenes?

Lynda Rutledge's path to publishing Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale - which comes out tomorrow! - included stints petting baby rhinos and dodging …

[Read more...] about Lynda Rutledge: The Time I Broke Up with Fiction

I first connected with Andi Buchanan on Readerville.com years ago, when we were both baby authors (her first, Mothershock, came out five months before my The …

[Read more...] about Andrea Buchanan: Captivating Your Inner Night-Time Critic

I met Carolina De Robertis at a book club mixer at Books Inc. Berkeley when her first novel, the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain was just out. …

[Read more...] about Carolina De Robertis: How I Avoided Second Novel Syndrome

Randy Sue Meyers is an online writer-pal, and author of The Murderer's Daughters, which Jan Gardner, writing for the Boston Globe, called, "A gripping tale of …

[Read more...] about Randy Susan Meyers: How Long Does it Take (to find an agent? sell the book? get published?)

Sara Gruen calls this week's guest author, Alex George "a first rate talent." And last week's guest, Eleanor Brown, calls his new novel, A Good American, "by …

[Read more...] about Alex George: Starting Over