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In the News (Wed 8 Oct 08)

  
  No mystery about these authors' goals - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Books - A&E
Thriller writers across the country have formed a national organization to burnish their image, honor excellence in suspense writing, and create new ways for readers to discover their books.
''In a thriller, it's the process and how it affects the characters that are emphasized." In ''Company Man," Finder departs from the usual fare of bad-guy CEO and makes his executive protagonist a sympathetic, decent man, the object of death threats, and the target of a conspiracy involving his colleagues.
Thrillers are among the more lucrative genres and take up a large section of bestseller lists, Lynds says, but awards for such works have been seriously lacking.
www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/06/08/no_mystery_about_these_authors_goals   (737 words)

  
 Tantor Audio Books : Author List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Fred Anderson, professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is the author of Crucible of War, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize in 2001.
She has authored over 900 articles for various newspapers and magazines and has four years of improvisational comedy training, including three with the famed L.A.-based group the Groundlings.
Steven Johnson is the author of Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, which was named as a finalist for the 2002 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism...
www.tantor.com /Authors.asp   (2492 words)

  
 Authors at Author Network
Tardif is the author of the 'psi-fi' suspense thriller, Divine Intervention and the emotional mystery, Whale Song, a novel that has become a hit with adult and young adult readers.
Sharon is the author of Walking Away From Texas, which deals with difficult issues that face young adults and centers on one relationship in particular between Katie Mitchell and Alan Thomas, two teenage, life long friends, who find themselves choosing between their friendship and their desires.
He is author of the Contract of Terror, the book which an historian reviewer at BarnesandNoble.com recently called "The most controversial book of the year." His book was the first publication to expose the symbiotic relationship between democracy and terrorism in a concise, scholarly, historical essay, and consequently it is rapidly gaining noteriety.
www.author-network.com /authors.html   (6904 words)

  
 Authors and their Titles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Asher, Michael is "an award-winning desert explorer, a best-selling author of both fiction and non-fiction, and a leader of adventure expeditions in the desert".
Hartley, A J author of the historical and archeological thriller, 'The Mask of Atreus'.
Jones, Tanya author of the Ophelia O series, one of which is a crime novel plus 'Girotondo', a contemporary crime novel set in Lucca.
www.weatherwax.eclipse.co.uk /crime/authors.html   (5475 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night: James Penney's New Identity\Operation Northwoods\Epitaph\The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
THRILLER, an anthology of short fiction --- where all contributions are from members of the International Thriller Writers Organization --- is, if you will, a literary annual report, a statement of where the thriller genre is at the present time and where it is going.
Stalwart authors such as David Morrell, Gayle Lynds and Eric Van Lustbader are featured; a long out-of-print, posthumous contribution from dearly-missed Dennis Lynds is included, as is "Man Catch," an unsettling tale of jealousy, betrayal and revenge from Christopher Rice.
Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night was an entertaining collection of short stories (say, averaging 10 minutes to read) with the focus being on "thrills." This included murder so foul, espionage, and creepy people, among other topics.
www.amazon.com /Thriller-Stories/dp/0778322998   (1961 words)

  
 Tulsa City-County Library - Research Tools - Tulsa & Oklahoma Authors
She is the author of The Route 66 Cookbook, the story of the best-loved eateries along the famous highway.
Cary Osborne is a resident of Norman, Oklahoma, and the author of 5 science fiction novels, Iroshi, The Glaive, Persea, Death Weave, and Darkloom.Winter Queen, a fantasy, was written under the pseudonym Devin Cary.
She is the author of Swans of the World and is hard at work on a book about cranes.
www.tulsalibrary.org /research/ok/authors.htm   (7485 words)

  
 International Thriller Writers: Membership Application   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
We are delighted to receive your application for membership in the premier organization for thriller authors and related professionals.
If you are a commercially published thriller author or a commercially produced screenwriter or playwright, or are a publishing professional with a special interest in thrillers, or simply love thrillers and want to support ITW, we invite you to join.
Please fill in the blanks that are appropriate to you as an author, an industry professional, or a supporter of the thriller field.
internationalthrillerwriters.com /application.html   (303 words)

  
 Authors On The Web
THRILLER, which came out June 1st, features the world's foremost thriller authors and is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published.
Dora Levy Mossanen, the beloved author of the exotic and sumptuous novel, HAREM, dazzled readers once again with her novel, COURTESAN, which was released in trade paperback in July.
Authors we featured in 2004 included S.J. Rozan, author of Absent Friends; Elizabeth Brundage, author of The Doctor's Wife; and Jonathan Tropper, author of The Book of Joe.
www.authorsontheweb.com   (5580 words)

  
 Abebooks: Authors' Corner
Author Nancy Pearl is the go-to person when looking for the next great book to read.
Chelsea Cain is the author of Confessions of a Teen Sleuth – an entertaining parody of Nancy Drew, which exposes everything you always wanted to know about the heroine from River Heights.
Meet Laura Penny, author of the bestselling book Your Call Is Important To Us as she reveals the alleged culture of spin and marketing.
www.abebooks.com /sm-authors-corner--docs.html   (1012 words)

  
 Authors: Brad Meltzer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He is also one of the co-creators of the TV show, Jack & Bobby — and is the number one selling author of the critically acclaimed comic book, Identity Crisis.
His newest comic book, Justice League of America, will be released in July, and his new thriller, The Book of Fate, will be published in September.
Raised in Brooklyn and Miami, Brad is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School.
www.twbookmark.com /authors/48/1236   (407 words)

  
 Lists of writers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth
List of Japanese authors: A B C D E F G H I J K M N O R S T U W Y Z
This page was last modified 18:44, 5 September 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_authors   (125 words)

  
 CVCO - Overbooked: Medical Thrillers Booklist
PW In this medical thriller from the author of Gray Matter and Elixer, Jack Koryan is attacked by a school of rare jellyfish, whose toxic stings put him in a three-year coma.
PW The bestselling author of Carriers delivers a cutting-edge, all-too-real medical thriller set against the terrifying backdrop of an imminent and devastating plague.
This debut thriller about an explosive relationship between an ER physician and a psychiatrist who treats violent sociopaths combines the gripping forensic detail of Patricia Cornwell and the spare, haunting prose of Michael Connelly.
www.overbooked.org /booklists/crime_fiction/medthrillers.html   (1687 words)

  
 Authors on the Web - Newsletter
While many of you know suspense/thriller authors like John Grisham, James Patterson and David Baldacci, the goal is to take readers behind the work of authors who are still not household names, but should be.
While reading favorite authors is wonderful, there's something special about discovering an author at the start of his or her career.
Authors featured in 2004 included Rita Mae Brown (whose 2005 release is Cat's Eyewitness); Leslie Forbes, author of Waking Raphael; and Laurie R. King, author of The Game.
www.authorsontheweb.com /newsletters/newsletter.asp   (1406 words)

  
 International Thriller Writers: Must-Read Thrillers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
As we note on the home page of this website, there are many types: the legal thriller, the spy thriller, the action-adventure thriller, the medical thriller, etc. One of their common denominators is that they quicken the reader’s heartbeat.
The purpose of the list is to encourage new ways of thinking and show the thriller as an evolving form.
To prevent this list from becoming a mere reflection of current taste, we chose 1995, a decade ago, as an arbitrary cut-off date.
www.thrillerwriters.org /mustread.html   (2018 words)

  
 Free Novels Online and Links to Other Free Online Cyber-Books
Snow Angels is a revision of the author's first free online novel, Threads of Desire, and at that time strictly a romance, it was revised at the request of a New York editor and again, to produce the finished romantic mystery you find here.
This is hardly a fitting place for a respectable woman to raise her nine-year-old son but it is a place where interesting things happen often and character molding experiences are impossible to avoid.
Told from the perspective of a meticulous and perceptive historian several thousand years later, it's the story of how, even with people laying quietly immense expectations on your back, what really matters is how your best girlfriend is going to treat you when you go out raving later that night.
starry.com /novel/authors.htm   (5832 words)

  
 International Thriller Writers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Together with the Mystery Writers of America, ITW has compiled a list of conferences and conventions dedicated to thrillers and mysteries in all their incarnations.
With author interviews, book reviews, excerpts, and contests, the Thriller Readers Newsletter is the perfect way to keep up with the thriller authors you already read, and the new authors bound to thrill you in the future.
Garfield, an ITW member, is the author of some 60 novels, most of them bestsellers, including the ground-breaking DEATH WISH, which appears on our MUST-READ list.
www.thrillerwriters.org /index.php   (417 words)

  
 You Decide: Trademark v. Free Speech - Home
The Authors Guild is compiling a list of works that might have been subject to being barred under this bizarre interpretation of the trademark law.
The context of this lawsuit is starkly political: a liberal author and comedian criticizing a conservative news network.
Franken is a "parasite" and "unfunny." Authors Guild president Nick Taylor emphasizes that the Guild takes no side in the politics of this sharply drawn debate.
members.authorsguild.net /trademark/disc.htm   (8651 words)

  
 Thriller Doctor » Resources » Articles » Top Ten Writing Mistakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
To avoid this scenario, first, identify the genre you are writing in — mystery, romance, action-adventure, fantasy, legal thriller, medical thriller, sci-fi thriller, etc. Second, read all the novels in print in that genre and write down the story concept in each.
Check off the authors’ names and titles that you find there against your existing list, and add all the authors and titles not yet on your list.
Usually a fairly complete list of an author’s titles will be published in a list in the front of her or his most recent book.
www.thrillerdoctor.com /resources/mistakes1.php   (1598 words)

  
 Elizabeth H. Taylor's Favorite Romance Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Coulter has an exhaustively long list of romance novels to her credit.
She is the novelist who pioneered the character-linked trilogy in historical romance.
But romance is not all this phenomenal author writes.
www.pitt.edu /~eht3/project/Authors/Catherinecoulter-romance.html   (171 words)

  
 DVD Talk Forum - Looking for military /political / etc thriller authors [merged]
I am building a list of good books to read, and I want to know about more authors (I haven't been reading for please for all that long..a year or so so I don't know about that many authors).
An author I rarely hear mentioned in the genre is Victor O'Reilly.
Not a thriller writer per se, but surely there's enough of a palpable verve throughout, especially in "King Suckerman." Like I said, this is crime fiction, and he plays it straight up steeped in tradition.
forum.dvdtalk.com /showthread.php?t=462906   (1306 words)

  
 mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
If you like the sort of book where authors dash off references like "two of my oldest friends, veteran film director Tony Richardson and actress Candice Bergen," this sounds like it'll totally be up your alley.
Let's not harangue greengrocers, let's understand why apostrophes are so hard in English.' But Humphrys, author of Lost for Words, was not amused: 'I think David Crystal is making a fundamental mistake when he says rules don't matter that much.
Now the Independent reports that the hoaxer's identity is Bevis Hillier, the 68-year-old author of a three-volume work devoted to Betjeman who had previously denied any part in the con.
www.mediabistro.com /galleycat/authors/default.asp   (1957 words)

  
 The Shot Book at Shop Ireland
Having never heard of the author or the book before, I decided to give it a go, not one for read alot of books, but this was brilliant!
This one is set in 1960, mainly in Havana, Miami, New York, with side trips to Vegas and Chicago and takes place over the course of the Nixon/Kennedy election and the buildup to JFK's inauguration.
Not only is there no one to care about, there's scant characterization to begin with-the male characters all have the same tired tough-guy patter, and the women are exclusively characterized as sex objects (and not surprisingly, banal ones at that).
www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0752834487   (730 words)

  
 O Authors Romance Genres Literature Arts
Rarely can authors resist straining for an anachronistic analogy, usually medieval.
The book?s two authors, James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, died in 1989 and 1991.
Here are three popular authors I suggest you avoid, other than for their entertainment...
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Literature/Genres/Romance/Authors/O   (350 words)

  
 LibraryThing: Authors who LibraryThing ("It's MySpace for authors!")
I've introduced LibraryThing Authors, a list of members who are also authors.
To become a LibraryThing author, you must be a member of LibraryThing who is also a published (or about-to-be-published**) author, having at least one book listed on Amazon or in the Library of Congress.
Kudos for the "you must have at least 50 books cataloged" restriction -- hopefully that will mean there aren't any more cases of authors using LT solely to push their own works, as appears to be the case for one of the existing "LTAuthors" with only seven books in his catalog.
www.librarything.com /blog/2006/05/authors-who-librarything-its-myspace.php   (1087 words)

  
 Authors Make Top Ten List – We Checked It – Twice - December 13, 2005
EUGENE, OREGON – December 12, 2005 – Two Harvest House authors not only made it onto Santa’s “nice” list, they ended up on another – Booklist’s Top Ten Christian Novels of the Year.
Author Chris Well was equally thrilled over the list announcement.
Well’s Forgiving Solomon Long is a page–turning suspense novel that sizzles with action—a locomotive crime thriller that crackles with wit and unexpected heart—and with a powerful message of forgiveness.
www.harvesthousepublishers.com /about_release.cfm?Record_ID=36   (704 words)

  
 Internet Authors Network | Internet Book List: Promote your book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Internet Authors Network provides this free book announcement service for authors promoting their books on the Internet.
You are not required to use these headlines, but they may make a nice addition to your content and they may help other authors promote their books.
If you spam the service with listings from your publishing catalogue, we will remove all the listings for your books.
www.xenite.org /internet_authors/announcebooks.html   (363 words)

  
 CrimeLibrary.com/About Crime Library/Authors/Mark Gado
Using keen investigative insight, combined with the pace and drama of a best-selling novel, Killer Priest is the terrifying true story of the only Catholic priest in American history to be executed for murder.
This heart-stopping psychological thriller describes the life of a tormented man who lost the ultimate battle between good and evil.
Through an unusual physics experiment, police determine whether a woman was hunted or a victim of a hunting accident.
www.crimelibrary.com /about/authors/gado   (659 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - Suspense/Thriller Author Feature
While many of you know authors like John Grisham, James Patterson and David Baldacci, the goal is to take readers behind the work of authors who are still not household names, but should be.
A list of the readers who were selected to read an advance copy of SILENT PARTNER
A list of the readers who were selected to read an advance copy of WARNING SIGNS
www.bookreporter.com /yearlong_suspense_thriller/index.asp   (402 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - Reader Comments about STAR WITNESS by D.W. Buffa
Although legal thrillers aren't my usual interest, I did enjoy the movie/celebrity aspects of this mystery.
I have read everything written by several other authors in the suspense/thriller category: David Baldacci, John Grisham, Sandra Brown, Patricia Cornwell, Tess Gerritsen, Robin Cook, Michael Palmer, Scott Turow, etc., and am still working on the backlist for a few of them like James Patterson.
A recent new author for me was Ian Rankin (RESURRECTION MEN) who is extremely well known in Britain for his Inspector Rebus books, which have not been as popular here in the United States.
www.bookreporter.com /suspense_thriller/0304buffa/buffa-ARC.asp   (2146 words)

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