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Howard Fast (1914-2003) was an American author of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screenplays. He grew up the son of immigrants in New York City, and published his first novel after high school. Howard was sent to prison after he failed to provide U.S. Congress with a list of potential Communist associates. It was behind bars […]

China Mieville is an English author of fantasy, steampunk and New Weird fiction novels and stories as well as non-fiction books. He has won the Arthur C. Clark, British Fantasy, Locus, Hugo, Kitschies and World Fantasy awards multiple times each. Although China is mostly associated with fantasy genre (and the like), he has said he […]

David Guterson is an American author of literary fiction novels, in addition to writing short stories, poems and essays. He was born in Seattle, Washington, and earned his M.A. from the University of Washington. David is a Guggenheim Fellow, and a former contributing editor to Harper’s magazine. He is also a co-founder of Field’s End, […]

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian author of fiction and non-fiction books. Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. He earned a doctorate at Oxford. He has taught at many universities in […]

Life in Icicle Falls is a series of contemporary romance novels by Sheila Roberts. The series is about several stories set in the town of Icicle Falls, Washington.

Sheila Roberts is an author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction novels. She writes the Life in Icicle Falls series. Prior to becoming a writer, Sheila owned a singing telegram company and played in a band (she still loves writing songs). Her novel On Strike for Christmas was adapted into a Lifetime movie, and The […]

Can’t believe it’s August already – where does the time go? First off a big thank you to everyone who interacted socially with BookSeries.org last month – I really appreciate it. As a thank you I’m running a contest there where you can win a FREE Kindle Paperwhite. All you have to do is register […]

Last month I asked our readers to the newsletter what standalone thrillers they would recommend. Here were the responses:

Alice Adams (1926-1999) was an American novelist and short story writer. Alice was born in Virginia and grew up in North Carolina. She then attended Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alice spent time in Paris, and ended up moving to San Francisco, where she spent most of her adult life.

Alessandra Torre is an American author of erotic romance novels, and also writes erotic suspense as A.R. Torre. Alessandra is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She spends several hours of her day working on various writing projects and interacting with readers on the different social media platforms she […]