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Inside the Nightmare

Novelist Sarah McCoy kneads together one family’s Third-Reich past and another’s Texas-border present

The prologue to Sarah McCoy’s new novel, The Baker’s Daughter, is set in Garmisch, Germany, and opens with a provocative image: “In the kitchen, bundled dough mounds as white and…

Bidding Artemis Farewell

After eleven years, hitting the bestseller lists with nearly every volume, Eoin Colfer brings the Artemis Fowl saga to a close

For eleven years, Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series has charmed legions of avid fans. Artemis, a cold-hearted genius who plots diabolical crimes against an underground fairy world, may seem like…

Gone but Not Forgotten

Rheta Grimsley Johnson looks back on a life entwined with the music of Hank Williams

In Hank Hung the Moon … and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts, Rheta Grimsley Johnson spins a nostalgic web of memoir and biography, a tale of how her own life…

Hero Complex

Jaden Terrell talks with Chapter 16 about her debut thriller, Racing the Devil, her protagonist—a sweetheart of a disgraced ex-cop—and her plans for a ten-book series

In Jaden Terrell’s debut novel, Racing the Devil, private investigator Jared McKean is drinking away his blues in a seedy Nashville biker bar, when he spots a damsel in distress:…

Deadly Information

For Taylor Stevens, the inspiration for her debut thriller came from her own unusual past

With tactics that go far beyond the ordinary, Vanessa “Michael” Munroe has earned her reputation as the best in the business of finding information. The androgynous heroine of Taylor Stevens’s…

Now in Print

D.B. Henson’s DIY publication yielded 100,000 ebook sales—and a traditional publishing contract

D.B. Henson spent ten years selling houses and another seven working for a company that builds them, but her secret dream had always been to write a novel. When an…

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