Unboxing New Arrivals from Pierce Brown, Joe R. Lansdale, and Mark Henshaw!
Roxanne Unboxes new arrivals from Pierce Brown, Joe R. Lansdale, and Mark Henshaw!
Roxanne unboxes three new arrivals. Pierce Brown’s Morning Star, Joe R. Lansdale’s Honky Tonk Samurai, and Mark Henshaw’s fall of Moscow Station. read more…
BlogTalkRadio Interviews Thomas Perry About His Newest Novel, Forty Thieves
Listen in as our host, Rodger Nichols, talks with Thomas Perry about his newest stand-alone novel, Forty Thieves.
About the Author:
Thomas Perry is the author of 20 novels including the Jane Whitefield series (Vanishing Act, Dance for the Dead, Shadow Woman, The Face Changers, Blood Money, Runner, and Poison Flower), Death Benefits, and Pursuit, the first recipient of the Gumshoe Award for best novel. read more…
Unboxing Peter Straub’s Interior Darkness
Unboxing Peter Straub’s Interior Darkness!
Roxanne unboxes the Interior Darkness from Peter Straub!
Interior Darkness Book Synopsis: Celebrated author Peter Straub’s mastery of the short form shines in this wide-ranging collection of his most chilling, intense, and compelling tales from the past twenty-five years.
Peter Straub has spent forty years at the forefront of modern literary horror. The stories assembled here represent his astonishing range and his ability to terrify, transport, and hold a reader hostage. read more…
YouTube Video: Unboxing Jo Nesbo’s Midnight Sun!
Unboxing Jo Nesbo’s Midnight Sun!
Roxanne Unboxes Jo Nesbo’s latest novel!
Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo – Book Synopsis
From the internationally best-selling author of the Harry Hole novels comes this short, lyrical tale of a man on the run from a crime lord’s deadly retribution, lost far beyond the Arctic Circle, where the sun remains in the sky for months on end. read more…
Book Collecting 101: Part Six
Book Collecting 101 – Part Six
John Hutchinson, VJ Books
February 29, 2016
Loving Books
Book collecting is one of the most rewarding of all hobbies, and whether you build a modest library or become a biblioholic, it helps to have the skills that will help you develop a critical eye. This series of articles was written to assist you in the development of that skill set.
As Grouch Marx once said, “Outside of a dog – a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Have fun with book collecting. It can be rewarding in so many different ways. read more…
Book Collecting 101: Part Five
Book Collecting 101 – Part Five
John Hutchinson, VJ Books
February 29, 2016
Signed or Author Autographed Books
You are now more active, and your book collection has begun to grow. You are adding shelves where once stood empty walls. Armed with your newly found knowledge, you have sorted through your books, retained you first editions and culled out the later printings, bookclubs, paperbacks and inferior copies. Your eye has become more critical. You examine each book you are considering carefully, looking for anything that may detract from its collectability. Is it clean and straight, are the page blocks bright and undamaged, is the jacket free from flaws? Are you sure that it is a first edition?
What to consider next? What will increase the desirability or value of any book you add to your collection? read more…
YouTube Video: Unboxing Mark Alpert’s The Orion Plan!
YouTube Video: Unboxing Mark Alpert’s The Orion Plan
Roxanne unboxes Mark Alpert’s latest novel: The Orion Plan!
The Orion Plan Book Synopsis:
In The Orion Plan, Mark Alpert presents a fascinating story of first contact with an alien intelligence far beyond what we can imagine.
Scientists thought that Earth was safe from invasion. The distance between stars is so great that it seemed impossible for even the most advanced civilizations to send a large spaceship from one star system to another.
But now, an alien species―from a planet hundreds of light-years from Earth―has found a way. read more…
BlogTalkRadio Interviews Author Stephen Coonts
The Art of War Author Stephen Coonts Tells It Like It Is
Listen to the BlogTalkRadio Interview with Stephen Coonts
Stephen Coonts is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels that have been translated and published around the world. A former naval aviator and Vietnam combat veteran, he is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Colorado School of Law.
Listen in as he and our host Rodger Nichols talk about Coonts’ new novel The Art of War and his first novel, Flight of the Intruder, published in September 1986 by the Naval Institute Press, and spent 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists in hardcover. A motion picture based on this novel, with the same title, was released nationwide in January 1991. read more…
Book Collecting 101: Part Four
Book Collecting – Part Four
John Hutchinson, VJ Books
February 23, 2016
How to Identify a First Edition
Now that you are a “book collector,” it is probably time for you to become more discriminating in the volumes you add to your shelves. What book collectors most look for is the first appearance of a title. For contemporary titles, this is usually a first edition, first printing.
How important is the edition of a particular book? It varies title to title, but as a general rule a later printing’s value is significantly less than that of a first. Take for instance Tom Clancy’s first book, The Hunt for Red October, published in 1984 by Naval Institute Press. A nice later printing copy can be found for $35-$50, where a first edition in similar condition will set you back over $1,000. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown’s runaway best seller went into over a hundred printings, with later printings easily found for $5, with first editions bringing $500 and up. read more…
BlogTalkRadio Interviews Author Andrew Grant
BlogTalkRadio Interviews Author Andrew Grant
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False Positive follows up the powerful punch of Andrew Grant’s novel RUN with a staggering second dose of thrills and suspense that is just as smart, atmospheric, and soul-searing.
False Positive Book Synopsis: Alabama detective Cooper Devereaux makes no apologies for his luxe lifestyle or the way he does his job. Most cops haven’t lived the kind of life he has—starting out as an orphan, raised by a grizzled cop savior—and most don’t use his kind of high-risk tactics. But he may have met his match in fellow detective Jan Loflin, who’s fresh off a long undercover stint in Vice when they’re partnered on a case that will test them both beyond their direst nightmares.
