Bestselling Fantasy Author Raymond E. Feist on Thirty Years of Writing
Not many authors can claim to have had a wide readership for thirty years, but that’s exactly the milestone fantasy writer Raymond E. Feist celebrates this year. Back in 1982, Feist wrote his first novel Magician, a story about an...
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Writer's Blues: Bill Cheng, Author of "Southern Cross the Dog"
When eight-year-old Robert Chatham loses everything to the fast waters of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, he lights out across the country, a refugee seeking shelter with (and from) a Homeric cast of misfits, hucksters, and ne’er-do-wells: the ladies...
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Nebula Award Winners Announced: Kim Stanley Robinson, Nancy Kress, and More
This weekend in San Jose, California, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the winners of the Nebula Award, given for excellence in SF/F. Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 won for best novel, confirming Omni’s prediction that Robinson was...
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Cheryl Strayed interviews Ru Freeman, "On Sal Mal Lane"
[Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestseller Wild, speaks with Ru Freeman about her new novel, On Sal Mal Lane, which explores the build-up to the Sri Lankan civil war through the stories of the families living side-by-side on a quiet...
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Sylvia Day Whets Our Appetite for "Entwined with You"--and More Crossfire
After naming Sylvia Day’s Bared to You a 2012 Best Book of the Year in Romance and devouring Reflected in You, we've been anxiously awaiting the release of the third book in Day's scorching Crossfire series, Entwined with You. To...
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An Evening with Dan Brown
How do you welcome an author who has sold 200 million books worldwide to New York’s Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center? Show the 2,000 fans in the audience where he lives, of course. At this launch event for Dan...
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Daniel Vaughn, Author of "The Prophets of Smoked Meat"
I think it's official: Daniel Vaughn has the coolest job in the U.S. As the recently-named barbecue editor at Texas Monthly magazine, he explores the Lone Star state, in search of the best brisket, ribs, and BBQ joints. What started...
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Amazon Asks: Kimberly McCreight on family, yogurt, and Breaking Bad
Reconstructing Amelia is a media-fest of narrative, emails, texts and other bits a tormented mother uses to deconstruct her teenage daughter's life and figure out whether she did or didn't commit suicide. Climbing the charts, it's the first novel by...
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YA Wednesday: Marie Lu Talks to Rick Yancy About "The 5th Wave"
Rick Yancey's new book, The 5th Wave, sucked me in and pulled me under from the first page to the last with it's terrifying and thrilling story of an alien invasion like you've never seen. We made it our Best...
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“A Curious Man”: Neal Thompson Talks Ripley with Sara Nelson
Leroy Robert Ripley was a brilliant oddball--a lonely, funny-looking kid who grew up to be a fabulously successful connoisseur of the weird, the fantastical, the gross. Amazon Senior Editor Neal Thompson channeled his own fascination with Ripley into A Curious...
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