To Event or Not to Event

This week’s post at Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room is about why book events, especially for fiction authors, still matter.

DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND by Lisa Unger

In DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND, Lisa Unger brings us back to The Hollows, the suburban New York town where FRAGILE was set. Many of the characters—including Jones and Maggie Cooper and their son Rick(y)—are also part of this new story, as are some we met only briefly in...

FRAGILE by Lisa Unger

FRAGILE came out last year (before I had this blog to talk about it), and is just now out in paperback. Because Lisa’s new book, DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND is set in the same place and picks up many of the characters from FRAGILE, I thought it made sense to write about...

Meet Me in St. Louis

When I was a kid, I was tormented for being a bookworm. A nerd. That, of course, was long before the interwebs changed everything.I’m as much of a bookworm and nerd today as ever I was. The difference now is that I can find people like me. People who get as excited...

Why We Buy Books

This week’s post at Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room looks at what makes readers pick up books by new authors. What have I missed?