Category: authors
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Magic, mystery garner Jean Rabe honors
Jean Rabe may not be a household name, but it should be. Chances are, if you are into gaming, if you are into fantasy, if you are into mysteries, you’ve encountered her byline atop a story or two. Check your bookshelf, and you just may find her stories or novels…
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American Hero: Remembering John Lewis
Note: With the loss of civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis on Friday, I thought it would be appropriate to honor with him with an article I wrote for BookPage in 2016. By G. Robert Frazier It is appropriate as we enter Thanksgiving week to express our gratitude to the…
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Author Interview: Tremblay uses empathy to build trust with readers
Praised by horrormaster The Cabin at the End of the World is an often graphic account of one family’s ordeal when their vacation is shattered in a cult-like home invasion. We asked Tremblay about the book’s origins.
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Michael Ondaatje discusses the clues that lead to stories
Michael Ondaatje, the author of several critically acclaimed literary novels, including The English Patient, considers himself an archaeologist. Not the kind that roots around in the dirt for prehistoric skeletons, but the kind that extracts memories and transcribes them to the written page.
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Karen Robards surprises readers with action-thriller for fifty-second book
The Ultimatum is Karen Robards’ first foray into the realm of the action-thriller novel and features her feistiest, and perhaps sexiest, heroine to date, Bianca St. Ives. Part con artist, part savvy businesswoman, Bianca is all-action.
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Nothing You Can Do but enjoy these tales of murder, mayhem from Ed Kurtz
As author Ed Kurtz so eloquently puts it, “Sometimes people kill for profit, sometimes revenge, and sometimes they do it just for the fun of it.” In his new anthology NOTHING YOU CAN DO: STORIES (Down & Out Books), he demonstrates the theme with seventeen tales of crime, murder, and…
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Jerry Kennealy still mastering his craft after 22 books
After 11 novels featuring private eye Nick Polo—the latest being POLO’S LONGSHOT—and 22 books overall, you might think Jerry Kennealy has this author thing licked. He’d be the first to tell you otherwise. “I’ll never get it licked, but this was a fun book to write: expensive wine, glider crashes,…
Story By G. Robert Frazier 