Clive Cussler Reigns Supreme!
Clive Cussler Reigns Supreme!
Team Cussler is furiously putting pen to paper to deliver more thrilling adventures than ever before. In calendar year 2016, one title has already been released, the new Isaac Bell thriller GANGSTER with Justin Scott. Four more Clive Cussler titles are scheduled before the end of the year.
EMPEROR’S REVENGE, the second Numa Files adventure by Boyd Morrison comes out on Memorial Day; followed in September by PIRATE, the next Fargo adventure written by bestselling author and a recent Cussler team addition, Robin Burcell; the new car book, BUILT TO THRILL, releases in October; but wait – THERE IS MORE! read more…
Book Collecting 101: Remainder Marks
Book Collecting 101: Remainder Marks
April 13, 2016
YouTube Video – Book Collecting 101: Remainder Marks
John explains the process of remainder marking books and how it can affect your book collection.
Jeffery Deaver discusses Steel Kiss
Jeffery Deaver discusses Steel Kiss
Click here to listen to the interview with Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver discusses Steel Kiss
Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She’s chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim.
Listen to the Interview with Author Paul Vidich about his debut novel, An Honorable Man
Listen to the Interview with Author Paul Vidich about his debut novel, An Honorable Man
Paul Vidich received his MFA from Rutgers-Newark. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Fugue, The Nation, Narrative Magazine, Wordriot, and other places. Junot Diaz selected his story “Jump Shot” as a winner of the 2010 Fugue Short Story Contest and his story “Falling Girl,” was nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize and appeared in New Rivers Press’ American Fiction, Volume 12: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers. His story collection was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. read more…
Listen to the Interview with Jon Land about his new novel, Takedown
Bestselling author Jon Land shares his newest book, Takedown
Jon Land is the bestselling author of over 25 novels. He graduated from Brown University in 1979 Phi Beta Kappa and Magna cum Laude and continues his association with Brown as an alumni advisor.
Takedown Book Summary:
Jeff Buck thought he’d seen it all. Twenty years working undercover in the netherworld of drugs had left him burned out and grateful to assume the quiet job of police chief in the small town of Reminderville, Ohio. That is, until a simple domestic assault case turns out to have links to the murder of a drug runner in upstate New York and a syndicate smuggling billions of dollars in drugs across the U.S.-Canada border.
As Buck reluctantly plunges back into his old world of death and deceit, he uncovers a complex chain linking the Hells Angels to the Russian Mafia in a plot to use Native American tribal land to smuggle their deadly wares into the United States. Buck’s efforts lead to an unprecedented slew of indictments on both sides of the border and prison terms for even the kingpins, toppling an empire once deemed invincible.
Author Glen Erik Hamilton talks with us about his newest novel HARD COLD WINTER
Author Glen Erik Hamilton talks with us about his newest novel HARD COLD WINTER
Rodger Nichols connects with author Glen Erik Hamilton about HARD COLD WINTER and his debut, PAST CRIMES.
About Hard Cold Winter
Former Army Ranger and thief Van Shaw is thrust into danger as lethal and unpredictable as the war he left behind in this emotionally powerful and gritty follow up to the acclaimed Past Crimes.
When an old crony of Van Shaw’s late grandfather calls in a favor, the recently-discharged Ranger embarks on a dangerous journey to the Olympic Mountains, in search of a missing girl tied to Van’s own criminal past. What he finds instead is a brutal murder scene, including a victim from one of Seattle’s most influential families. read more…
YouTube Video: John Reviews Mark Greaney
John Reviews Mark Greaney
Although Tom Clancy died more than a year ago, the Jack Ryan series lives on with Mark Greaney. Tom Clancy novels written by Mark Greaney include Locked On, Threat Vector, Command Authority, Support and Defend, and Full Force and Effect.
Mark has a degree in International Relations and Political Science. In his research for The Gray Man novels he has traveled to more than fifteen countries, visited the Pentagon and many Washington, D.C. Intelligence agencies, and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics.
Mark lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
Book Collecting 101: Identifying a First Edition
Book Collecting 101: Identifying a First Edition
March 15, 2016
John helps us identify the methods various publishers use to signify the first edition of a book. The different types of number lines and a few noteworthy editions of certain titles are mentioned.
From the Facebook Page of Daniel Palmer
Daniel Palmer posted this on his Facebook page on 3/16/2016
“Many of you know, at the request of St. Martin’s, my dad’s longtime publisher, I’ve taken on the task of writing Michael Palmer medical thrillers. I didn’t enter the agreement lightly or without a lot of forethought. After all, I’m shouldering an impressive legacy. So I’m extra thrilled and delighted that Publishers Weekly, one of the biggies of the trade reviews, has weighed in on MERCY, my second effort as a medical thriller writer, with a glowing starred review. While writing this book, I focused on my father’s teachings; the innumerable writing lessons he shared with me over years of his mentorship. I channeled all I had learned from him as best I could, so in this regard, the book is as much his as it is mine. We did good, Pop.”
The Trade Paper Edition Emerges
THE TRADE PAPER EDITION EMERGES
March 10, 2016
As we sit back and watch the new world of publishing unfold, we find ourselves at a crossroads. Collectors have routinely rejected new formats, holding to their preference for cloth bound books in full color dust jackets. The eBook phenomenon seems to have leveled off, and some report that they declined as much as 10% in 2015. In any case, most collectors have seen eBooks only as a convenience, while they purchase bound books to grace their shelves.
The biggest change has been the number of well known authors who have slipped from the strangle hold of NY publishers, moved to smaller presses, or simply self-published. We celebrate those pioneers who have created a market that has them receiving a larger piece of their book’s selling price, dumped typical royalty arrangements in favor of a system that rewards the artist more than the publishing conglomerates. Ignoring the doomsday warnings of read more…
