Happy #ThrillerThursday! We’ve got two terrific mysteries AND great news about CWA Dagger Award nominations! FALL OF NIGHT by Jonathan Maberry “Maberry does some of his best writing in this sequel to 2011’s DEAD OF NIGHT. Maberry, no slouch when it comes to action and suspense, seems to have found new energy here, as though […]
Reviews and Publicity
Kirkus’s Most Anticipated Fall Novels
Kirkus Reviews has chosen their Most Anticipated Novels of the Fall and 2 of the 10 are Macmillan titles! LILA by Marilynne Robinson Pulitzer Prize-winning author “Robinson has created a tour de force” (Booklist, starred review) with the final volume in her Gilead trilogy, LILA. It’s already received THREE starred reviews and has a major […]
#BookBday Bonus: WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE
It gives us great pride to wish a Happy #BookBday to Flatiron Books’s very first publication: WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE by Oprah Winfrey! After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, “What do you know for sure?” Oprah Winfrey began writing the “What I Know For Sure” monthly column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Now, […]
Happy #BookBday (9/2/14 Edition)
Welcome back! We hope everyone had a lazy Labor Day weekend like these little guys. We’re back and thrilled to wish these brand new books a Happy #BookBday: ACCEPTANCE by Jeff VanderMeer At last! We can finally learn the mysteries behind Area X in the final volume of VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy. Everyone loves the […]
Unshelved lurves ANNIHILATION
In case you missed it, Friday’s Unshelved comic strip was all about Jeff VanderMeer’s ANNIHILATION! […]
Labor Day Weekend Reading
Hip hip hooray, it’s Labor Day! For us (and hopefully you) that means a nice, long, relaxing weekend with plenty of reading time (we’re out tomorrow and Monday). Here are the books topping our TBR pile: ON THE EDGE by Edward St. Aubyn On Sale: October 14, 2014 Shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, St. […]
Thriller Thursday (Stars Edition)
Today’s #ThrillerThursday picks are superSTARS! THE LONG WAY HOME by Louise Penny Penny’s highly anticipated tenth Chief Inspector Gamache novel is here! Booklist and Library Journal loved it with the latter warning, “The heartbreaking conclusion will leave series readers blinking back tears.” Keep an eye out for upcoming major media for THE LONG WAY HOME, […]
We heart Douglas Preston!
When we want a great thriller packed with big ideas, science, and action Douglas Preston is our go-to guy. We love his Wyman Ford series and the most recent book, THE KRAKEN PROJECT, was praised in a starred and boxed review from Booklist: “Preston’s latest solo novel takes a wildly implausible premise and turns it […]
We heart Lisa Scottoline!
If you’ve been lucky enough to meet her, you know why we love Lisa Scottoline. She’s HILARIOUS, yet incredibly down-to-earth, a super talented writer, and very outspoken about how her books belong to several different genres. Lisa is the cover story of the October 2014 issue of Writer’s Digest (on stands now)! She talks about […]
Happy #BookBday (8/26/14 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to these fabulous new titles: LOCK IN by John Scalzi Scalzi’s near-future thriller landed on the August 2014 LibraryReads list and received three starred pre-publication reviews, like this one from Kirkus: “This SF thriller provides yet more evidence that Scalzi is a master at creating appealing commercial fiction.” FIVES AND TWENTY FIVES by […]