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First Fiction 2013: The Intersection Of Science and Love - Graeme Simsion
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, believes a 16-page questionnaire will help him find the perfect partner—or at least the second date he’s never had. Then he meets the unlikeliest of candidates: Rosie, who is on a quest to find her biological father.
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First Fiction 2013: Testing the Ties that Bind - Emma Chapman
St. Martin’s Press executive editor Jennifer Weis first got the manuscript for How to Be a Good Wife from a colleague attending the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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First Fiction 2013: Literary Hat Trick - J.M. Sidorova
Moscow native J.M. Sidorova adhered to a time-honored routine while working on The Age of Ice: “Research, research, research—write. Repeat.”
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First Fiction 2013: Ripped from The Headlines - Paula Daly
“This book came about directly from an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show,” says Paula Daly, author of Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
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First Fiction 2013: The Firsts of Fall
Some are outrageously young; others are a little more seasoned. Some of their stories are inspired by real life; others are spun from a spark of curiosity or a figment of the imagination.
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Considering the Death Penalty: Evan J. Mandery
Between Bush v. Gore and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the image of the Supreme Court as an apolitical body that deduces the law based on precedent has taken a hit over the past decade.
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Scott McClanahan On the Rise
Scott McClanahan had three published books, and no agent, to his credit when he sent the first chapter of Crapalachia to Eric Obenauf, publisher of the Ohio indie press, Two Dollar Radio.
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Rules of Blake: James Carlos Blake
James Carlos Blake knows about outlaws.
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Mystery Man: John Searles
First impression of John Searles, bestselling author of the novels Boy Still Missing and Strange but True, and the forthcoming Help for the Haunted (Morrow, September): sincere, genuine, delightful, funny, humble, lighthearted, positive.
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A Memoir in Five Acts: Howard Norman
Novelist Howard Norman is in his element as he hikes down a winding trail to McClure’s Beach in Pt. Reyes, Calif.
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Be Very Afraid: Matt Bell
Matt Bell, 32, admits he’s surprised that he dwells so much upon marriage and fatherhood in his writing.
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BEA 2013: John Lewis: A Graphic March
A longtime congressman and legendary civil rights veteran, John Lewis is at this morning’s Book and Author Breakfast to talk about his new graphic autobiography March, the first of a three-volume work to be published by Top Shelf in August.
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BEA 2013: Peter Lerangis Enjoys His Craft and Fans
Peter Lerangis may be a bestselling author with more than 160 books under his belt, but he’s still ecstatic about being a writer, especially one for children.
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BEA 2013: Jim Gaffigan: Writing While Standing
Jim Gaffigan has a wildly successful career as a standup comic, more than a million Twitter followers, and his just released first book, Dad Is Fat (Crown), offers his take on everything from cousins (“celebrities for little kids”) to growing up in a big family (“I always assumed my father had six children so he could have a sufficient lawn crew”) and changing diapers in the middle of the night (“like The Hurt Locker, but much more dangerous”).
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BEA 2013: Kris Miller: A Lesson in Finance
There are things about money that Kris Miller wants you to know.
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BEA 2013: Sarah Dessen: Summertime Is the Best Time
Ah, summer. It’s Sarah Dessen’s favorite season.
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BEA 2013: Chris Matthews: The Clash of Political Titans
You can hear longing for the old days when MSNBC Hardball anchor Chris Matthews talks about his latest book, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (Simon & Schuster, Nov.).
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BEA 2013: Gennifer Albin: Weaver of Stories
Gennifer Albin explains that her inspiration for Crewel, the first novel in her YA Crewel World trilogy (2012), was sparked by the painting Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle by the Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo.
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BEA 2013: Neil Gaiman: Fortunately, Making Good Art
Neil Gaiman is scheduled to speak this morning, 10 a.m.–11 a.m., on why he thinks fiction is dangerous, but since he’s an old hand at attending BEA, he knows he’ll have a “captive audience of booksellers” in conference room 1E12–1E13.
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BEA 2013: Diana Gabaldon: Wrinkles In Time
Each of her Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon emphasizes, contains enough backstory that it can be read either as a stand-alone or as part of the series—which she recommends, however, is best read in chronological order.
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