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A gossip queen dissecting politics? A political pundit musing about sports? A romance novelist waxing poetic on music? You read it here first... see what your favorite literary personalities have to say about life beyond books.

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The End of an Era for me too.....

By Milly Johnson - September 3, 2010

It’s been the most emotional summer I can remember. My son is going to ‘big school’ in September. Although he’s all grown up now and raises his eyebrows when I call it that. He’ll strut off on his first day with his uniform sparkling and his shoes polished to army standard and I’ll be the nervous wreck worrying that he’ll be okay and wondering where all the...

Carol Lynch Williams talks about The Chosen One

By Carol Lynch Williams - September 2, 2010

UK S&S I am so excited that I have a book published in ENGLAND! I lived in England for a couple of years when I was very, very little. I was quite cute then, much shorter and had curly blond hair. I remember having a little red wagon. I really hope that the UK readers will love and embrace Kyra’s story. WRITING THE CHOSEN ONE For me, a good story is something that I...

The End of an Era for me too...

By Milly Johnson - September 1, 2010

It’s been the most emotional summer I can remember. My son is going to ‘big school’ in September. Although he’s all grown up now and raises his eyebrows when I call it that. He’ll strut off on his first day with his uniform sparkling and his shoes polished to army standard and I’ll be the nervous wreck worrying that he’ll be okay and wondering where all the years...

Goodbye blog! *sniffle*

By Jennifer Echols - August 20, 2010

The Simon Pulse Romantic Comedies Blog is ending. Post a comment for a chance to win all 4 of my ro-coms! US only. Contest closes on the 25th so comment soon!

UNDERSTATING THE CHILLS

By Sarah Rayne - August 12, 2010

Sometimes the shadows can be mightier than the substance. Nearly ninety years ago the German film-maker F.W. Murnau chilled cinema audiences with the 1922 silent movie, Nosferatu. It’s still chilling people today, and the creepiest scene of all is where the vampiric Count Orlok steals up the dark stairway, only his shadow visible on the wall. Thus sparking off a...

The One Who Got Away

By Sarah Rayne - August 2, 2010

It was not a day on which I was expecting to meet a ghost. It was, in fact, a perfectly normal working morning. There was half a chapter to get into shape – an interesting, not too taxing, scene in House of the Lost, describing how the main character is singled out by a lady as being a very desirable property… Actually, I had singled him out a very...

By Carol Rivers - July 28, 2010

I'm Carol Rivers and thank you for visiting my Simon & Schuster web page. My gritty family sagas are all located in the heart of London's East End - the Isle of Dogs. You can read more of the Island's history and about its location if you click on www.carolrivers.com where you will find interesting information about me and my books. I'm very excited at the moment. My 2010...

Flesh and Blood: Breathing Life Into a Series Character

By Chris Carter - July 14, 2010

Ask any author and they’ll tell you that protagonists are the heart and soul of every novel. Even more so if they’re writing a series. Your protagonist is, without a doubt, the reason your readers will keep coming back for more. They say that if you can get readers to identify, or even fall in love with your main character, then you’ll have a fan for life – or at...

Here come the nerves!

By Paige Toon - July 14, 2010

I always get nervous at this point in time – nervous and excited – because my new book Pictures of Lily is now on the bookshelves in bookshops. All my friends and family are going to read it and let me know what they make of it. But even more frightening and wonderful than that, is hearing what the readers think. I’m usually too terrified to look at the online reviews at...

FORGET YOU will be in stores July 20!

By Jennifer Echols - July 6, 2010

In the meantime, I've posted early reviews and a sneak peek of chapter 1 on my web site: jennifer-echols.com.

By N. J. Cooper - July 1, 2010

THE STORY BEHIND LIFEBLOOD Writers should never look to their novels for therapy. You have to write out of your own experience, but if you try to recreate that experience on the page you'll fail. What is real becomes flat and laboured when it's turned into a novel. Instead you have to squish your own past and emotions through a kind of imaginative sieve before you...

What? A Blog? Here??? Really? Hmmmmmmmm.

By Kathleen Duey - June 21, 2010

Just got back from San Antonio TX. I interviewed three more cab drivers, got to see many writers who write books I love and ate way. too. much. More at writerwriterwriter http://kathleenduey.blogspot.com/

Writing like lightning....and snails.

By Kathleen Duey - June 21, 2010

Skin Hunger and Sacred Scars, the first two books in The Resurrection of Magic trilogy, have won awards, gotten great reviews, and have brought me LOTS of reactions, comments, messages, via every means of communication... ((Woohoo, DragonCon-ees)) ((Hello Tweeps, FB, MySpace and Blogger friends)) ((Thanks so much to all the teachers and librarians)) ((I <3 you, SCBWI...

Summer 2010 update

By Kathleen Duey - June 21, 2010

I have been writing like mad AND traveling. Thanks to everyone who made my Spring trips wonderful and FUN. Thanks to Texas Librarians and FL SCBWI members and Wisconsin's Reading Association and all the wonderful independent bookstores who had me in to sign and talk to the lovely people who like my books. I will be teaching writing at an SCBWI conference in Marin, CA in...

World Cup Poems

By John Osborne - June 21, 2010

I am writing a poem about football every day during the World Cup. The idea is that England are going to win the World Cup and these poems will be of huge cultural significance. In reality England will probably go out in the Quarter Finals and I'll just get bored by the second week, but at the moment I'm doing one a day. Read them all at worldcuppoems.blogspot.com.

More good news for ENDLESS SUMMER!

By Jennifer Echols - June 10, 2010

Well, first of all, after only two weeks in stores, Endless Summer is in its SECOND PRINTING!!! This is a direct result of YOU walking into a store and buying a copy, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate you for doing this. As a result, I have asked my editor if I may write a third book about Adam and Lori, and she has said MAYBE. It will depend on sales, but I think...

A tease for the bees

By Jane Shaw - June 2, 2010

Talking to Zeus's 'release date' fell during the week of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and rather than sneak copies of TTZ into shop window displays I was glued to the box and this year's horticultural shenanigans. While trying not to be too bitter about missing out on a coveted ticket I soon found a vicarious pleasure in watching the highs and lows of prize-giving morning. For...

A Rose By Any Other Name (might not smell that sweet after all...)

By Milly Johnson - May 25, 2010

Apparently ‘A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ (excuse the tweak please, Will) well, that is as maybe but my brain kind of interferes with theories like that and adds a bit to the mix – allow me to explain: if a rose were called ‘Snotweed’, my brain would start imagining that it didn’t smell half as nice as a ‘rose’ would. Which is why I spend a long...

John Peel's Shed

By John Osborne - May 19, 2010

In 2002 I won a competition on John Peel's Radio 1 show. My prize was a box of 150 records from John Peel's own collection and recently I've done a radio show featuring the best tracks from those records. The show is called John Peel’s Shed and is on every Sunday in May at 9 pm on Future Radio, 96.9FM, online at futureradio.co.uk, where podcasts of the show are available.I...

By Chris Ewan - May 4, 2010

The titles are something of a giveaway, but location is veryimportant to my Good Thief’s Guide to…series of crime novels. Part of the idea behind the books was to combine twothings. First, I thought it would be fun to make my hero a criminal – and so Icame up with the character of Charlie Howard, the author of a series of pulpcaper novels who doesn’t just write books...

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