Posted on May 15, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

Wow, A lot has happened since I last wrote.
First, I’ve received some positive feedback from three agents. All three emailed me on the same day (!) and asked to see my book proposal. It was very cool, but very unexpected.
Two of them wanted exclusivity, meaning that they wanted to be the only ones [...]

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Tom Baurley

Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies
by Donald Kenrick
Hardcover 256 pages (October 23, 1972)
Publisher: Heinemann Educ.
ISBN: 043582192X
Donald Kenrick and Grattan Puxon, “Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies” (New York: Basic Books, 1972)
An excellent history classic about the story, travels, persecution, and demise of Europe’s Gypsies. It covers the shocking realistic history of what happened to these oppressed peoples as they [...]

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Marsha James

These are the following novels that will be in stores May 22, or in your home sooner if you pre-ordered online.
At Risk
Patricia Cornwell
A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run [...]

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Marsha James

While romance novels are what I generally need I have started once again to read a few different genre of books. I decided to try Lee Child’s The Hard Way because I liked a previous novel from this talented author.
Hard Way does try to keep you on the edge and guessing at most times and [...]

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Kathleen Milazzo

     I really enjoy reading. One of my favorite authors was Robin Cook. I would take the paperbacks with me on my long bus rides to work and they would make the trips seem faster and more pleasurable. However I began to lose my taste for them after I began to see a pattern. The [...]

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Kathleen Milazzo

     I hope that I am misunderstanding the situation with J.K. Rowling, but running out of paper? I hope that she was trying to be humorous when she wrote that. I can’t imagine that she was unable to get paper to write. Did she not realize that the kids would take her seriously and do [...]

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Marsha James

Lyn Heward is a longtime executive with the show Cirque du Soleil and after watching the spark and energy of the show for so long she decided to write a book. It is semi-fictional and tells the story of a burnt out man who embraces Cirque.
The Spark: Igniting the Creative Fire That Lives Within Us [...]

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Marsha James

Earlier this week J.K. Rowling made the mistake of writing on her website that she was running out of paper to finish writing her seventh and last Harry Potter book.
I guess fans didn’t want to hear such a thing because she was instantly flood with all the paper she will need for a while. Some [...]

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Marsha James

James Frye’s new novel “My Friend Leonard” is what he calls part fact and part fiction. He says he cannot call the book a work of pure fiction because some things did really happen in the book.
James Frye was the author who last year rose to fame because Oprah endorsed his book “A Million Little [...]

Posted on May 09, 2006 by Marsha James

The novel Runner by author Peter McPhee was removed from school shelves following the murder of a family by the 12 year old daughter. In the book their is a goth girl and this strikes the city too close to home since the child who killed her family seems to have fallen in with a [...]