by vjbooks | May 7, 2009 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
ITW Presents Thrillerfest July 8-11 Every year,the International Thriller Writers organization has a gala readers/writers event called THRILLERFEST. This year, it is again taking place at the Grand Hyatt hotel in New York City. Featured guests include David...
by vjbooks | Jan 8, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
The July pub date of THE SHIMMER coincides with the International Thriller Writers organization’s annual gala readers/writers conference, THRILLERFEST (July 8-11). This year, it again takes place in New York City, where ITW will present David Morrell with its...
by vjbooks | Dec 23, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(januarymazaine.com, Nov. 17, Monica Stark) While a few reviewers have been somewhat cool about Katherine Neville’s long-awaited sequel to 1988’s The Eight, we predict that The Fire (Ballantine) will still manage to find its way under a lot of trees this holiday...
by vjbooks | Nov 30, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(The Independent, Nov. 20, Barry Forshaw) Just like The Da Vinci Code – but much better Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has become instant shorthand for those who consider it the last word in dumbed-down, crassly written fiction. But there is no denying the...
by vjbooks | Nov 28, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Nov. 19, 2008, Regis Behe) There are a few reasons why Katherine Neville waited 20 years to write the sequel to her wildly successful novel “The Eight.” There were notions the book didn’t need a second act or the...
by vjbooks | Nov 4, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Oct 27) The Fire is Neville’s long-awaited sequel to The Eight, published 20 years ago and boasting sales of more than 1.5 million copies (500,000 in the past eight years alone). Both books are about the quest for a mystical chess set...
