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All of my novels have had different origins. Something Like Normal began with the voice of a Marine who wouldn’t go away until I wrote his story. Where the Stars Still Shine came about after I visited Tarpon Springs, a place so interesting and strange that I knew I needed to drop a character into […]

Every once in a while, a debut novel defies the odds, hits us all right in the feels, and finds it way onto all the lists! Such is the case with a little book called When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. Heard of it? Course you have, it’s everywhere! We’re so excited and pleased […]

Here are the songs that either inspired the idea behind The Potion Diaries or helped me while I was writing it! These songs are near and dear to my heart— ‘Black Magic,’ especially, because it was released by Little Mix about the same time that The Potion Diaries launched. It seemed like serendipity! I mean, just look at […]

Now that the Riveted Summer of Love is in full swing, I think it’s safe to announce that I myself am in love…..with Kathryn Ormsbee’s Tash Hearts Tolstoy, my new favorite book! Tash Hearts Tolstoy was one of my most anticipated books of the season. I mean, the description sounded so fun: After a shout-out […]

Our Summer of Love is rolling along! We hope you’ve had a chance to dig in to all of our great love-themed reads so far, particularly the extended excerpt of Sandhya Menon’s When Dimple Met Rishi! We’ve been talking a LOT about this much-buzzed book (which incidentally, recently added New York Times bestseller to its […]

Recreate your favorite book cover (and tag us!) Visit an independent bookstore Practice bibliomancy with the book nearest to you Write a short story about summer camp Create book spine poetry See how many books you can balance in the book stacking challenge Compete against your friends in The Unexpected Everything scavenger hunt Make a […]

At the time of this posting, I am in Italy on a vacation I’ve been thinking about for years. So of course, I’ve been thinking about Jenna Evans Welch’s Love & Gelato, which says that people come to Italy for love and gelato. And while that may be true (I mean, gelato is a huge […]

There were still a few more metres to go to reach the top of the Villaricca volcano in Pucon, Chile, but I was done. Four hours of climbing straight up over loose rock, snow and glacier ice had knackered my muscles; altitude and sulphurous air made it hard to breathe; and I was carrying a […]

Philippa Gregory’s written MANY a bestselling novel and been proclaimed “the queen of royal fiction” by USA Today. You might be familiar with The Other Boleyn Girl which has been adapted into a movie, or perhaps with The White Queen, the inspiration for the critically acclaimed miniseries now airing on Starz. But what many people […]

Confession: I am a book playlist nerd. I’ve been a music nut since I was a teenager, and it’s playlists that get me through all my nitty gritty manuscript revisions. Further Confession: Playlists are my ultimate procrastination tool. Because some days, instead of rewriting 10K of text, I really just need to arrange every song […]