Posted by Gloria Kelley on December 14th, 2008
{image courtesy of Jason Fulford & Tamara Shopsin}
This weekend’s New York Times Book Review ran their list of the top 10 book of the year. Any thoughts? Did they get it right? What was missing?
Posted by Jocelyn on December 11th, 2008
Brenda Janowitz, author of SCOT ON THE ROCKS and JACK WITH A TWIST, is hosting an amazing book giveaway over on her site! Head over there and sign yourself up. Because we all know that books make GREAT gifts!
Here are the rules from Brenda’s site:
To enter, just email brenda@brendajanowitz.com and write “Another holiday book giveaway” in the subject line. You must be a subscriber of the www.brendajanowitz.com mailing list to enter.
Want extra entries? Post a blog entry about this giveaway and/or email five friends about it. For each blog entry and each email you send out, you’ll get another entry to win!
Winners will be announced on December 16. So what are you waiting for? Enter today!
Posted by Jocelyn on December 9th, 2008
Tonight Mayor Menino hosted the holiday event, ReadBoston at the Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore Square. The event was a wonderful opportunity for authors and readers to meet, mingle and talk books while raising money for an incredibly worthwhile cause. ReadBoston’s mission is to have children in Boston reading on grade level by the time they complete third grade. Founded by Mayor Thomas M. Menino in 1995 to address low literacy levels among Boston’s youth, ReadBoston has since grown into a city-wide leader in the field of early literacy.
I took the opportunity at this wonderful event to connect with some of my favorite authors. For example, the charming Beth Teitell. Teitell is the author of FROM HERE TO MATERNITY and DRINKING PROBLEMS AT THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. She writes in such an amazingly honest and authentic voice that I found myself quoting her own writing back to her. I was certainly a fan!
And here are two of the best thriller writers of our time, Joseph Finder and Michael Palmer. Wouldn’t you love to join these two for dinner? I’m sure the conversation would be as intoxicating and intriguing as their writing.
Todd English was there, as well, signing copy after copy of his gorgeous cookbooks! I am currently poring over THE OLIVES TABLE.
Our partner, Megan Kelley Hall, was there signing copies of SISTERS OF MISERY. Here she is with debut author of legal thriller EIGHT IN THE BOX, Raffi Yessayan.
Here are just a few of the other talented authors present at tonight’s event.
Bill Brett
Michael Connelly
Anita Diamant
Todd English
Joseph Finder
Jill Ker Conway
Megan Kelley Hall
Jarrett Krosoczka
Ben Mezrich
Mary Newell DePalma
Rebecca Angelina Nigro
Michael Palmer
Andrew Rimas
Casey Sherman
Clara Silverstein
Irene Smalls
Beth Teitell
Raffi Yessayan
I am looking forward to future ReadBoston events!
Posted by Jocelyn on December 8th, 2008
This weekend the Lifetime movie version of Jane Porter’s novel, FLIRTING WITH FORTY premiered. I love when books are turned into movies because I find that film versions have the amazing ability to help non-readers discover books and authors. What it allowed me to do was to discover an author I had heard about, but never fully appreciated on my own. Last night I picked up ODD MOM OUT by Jane Porter and could not put it down! It is a wonderful book about being a renegade and a mom, and the challenges both positions pose.
Here is a blog post that Jane wrote about the life of an author versus the life of a writer and how different those two roles can be.
Posted by Jocelyn on December 8th, 2008
The Book Babes (Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel) are advising First Lady Laura Bush on writing her memoir. Don’t forget to check out their book, “Between the Covers: The Book Babes’ Guide to a Woman’s Reading Pleasures.”
