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This Month on AuthorsOnTheWeb.com
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| What's New This Month.... |
Dear Readers,
This month's update is chockful of information on new releases and news about authors that you want to hear!
Also, romance is in the air with Valentine's Day and we have a Romance Authors Roundtable that you will NOT want to miss!
Happy reading...
-Carol Fitzgerald (Carol@bookreporter.com)
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| Author of the Month: Nevada Barr |
For the past decade, Nevada Barr has written a series of highly successful and praiseworthy books featuring a protagonist named Anna Pigeon, who resembles her in several ways. Barr has drawn on her previous experiences as a park ranger and her personal love of nature to write these mysteries. They can easily be called "environmental mysteries" because the pivotal action always takes place in the Great Outdoors.
Barr's latest Anna Pigeon novel is Flashback, set on a remote island paradise 70 miles off Key West. Unfortunately, Anna is nowhere near paradise when she soon discovers that the crimes of the past and present are quickly closing in on her.
To celebrate the release of Flashback, AuthorsOnTheWeb has chosen Nevada Barr as our Author of the Month. Readers can learn more about Barr's life and works through trivia questions, fast facts and biographical information, as well as links to his bibliography and book reviews.
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Read about Nevada Barr, our Author of the Month
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| Romance Author Roundtable |
Romance is more than hearts and flowers for this group of authors. As writers of a genre responsible for more than 50 % book sales it's big business. Mary Lynn Baxter, Jo Beverley, Shirlee Busbee, Candace Camp, Leslie Carroll, Gaelen Foley, Dorothy Garlock, Rachel Gibson, Judith McNaught, Teresa Medeiros, Brenda Novak, Carly Phillips, Julia Quinn, Barbara Samuel, Christina Skye, and Kerrelyn Sparks discuss creating and sustaining ongoing characters, writing love scenes and their thoughts on the romance genre in the world of publishing.
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Read the Romance Author Roundtable here.
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| Last Month's Author of the Month: Jeffrey Archer |
For over 25 years, Jeffrey Archer has captivated audiences with his intriguing characters, ingenious plots and trademark surprise endings. His first novel, NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS, was a bestseller in America and launched his long and prosperous literary career. A MATTER OF HONOR, THE ACCUSED, HONOR AMONG THIEVES and TWELVE RED HERRINGS are just some of the books that have helped him earn the title "master of the plot twist." With sales of over 120 million books worldwide, Archer has taken the art of thriller writing to a new bone-chilling level. His latest book, SONS OF FORTUNE, focuses on the reunion of twin brothers separated at birth and the shocking twists and turns that ensue.
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Read About Jeffrey Archer here.
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Read more about KING OF TORTS as well as an excerpt here. And learn more about this offer.
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| PATTERN RECOGNITION by William Gibson |
William Gibson's Pattern Recognition is now in bookstores. The New York Times calls the book "Gibson's most complex, mature gloss on the artist's relationship to our ever more commercialized globe."
Gibson's website has biographical information, excerpts, a Q&A, and a message board where readers have a chance to communicate with the author and each other.
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Read more about William Gibson here.
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| Monthly Newsletter Contest |
Every month, one subscriber to the AuthorsOnTheWeb.com newsletter wins a copy of a book from our Author of the Month.
This month's title is FLASHBACK by Nevada Barr.
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Read the contest rules here!
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