Join us as we cheer on our colleague, Amy Haddock, from the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group when she presents a fantastic list of authors and novels during Library Journal’s Christian Fiction Spring Book Buzz! 

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Thursday, May 10th @3pm EST!

She’s revealing new titles from perennial favorites Liz Curtis Higgs, Jane Kirkpatrick, and Cindy Woodsmall, plus many more inspirational romance novels and women’s fiction you won’t want to miss!

We hope everyone in the library world felt the multitudes of appreciation last week!  We certainly second the calls to make National Library Week a National Holiday!

Here is a final bonus author Q&A with Peter Behrens to conclude our special weeklong blog series, along with a parting quote from a huge library supporter, Laurie R. King!   We’re thrilled that so many of our authors jumped at the chance to honor librarians.  We’re giving away copies of both THE O’Briens and PIRATE KING today, so click through the link below to enter to win one.

Please share all of our authors’ sentiments and blurbs with yours patrons.  We’re sure they will enjoy them as much as we have.

Peter Behrens is the author of The O’Briens and The Law of Dreams (which received Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and was published around the world to wide acclaim) and Night Driving, a collection of short stories. His stories and essays have appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic and Tin House.

RH LIBRARY: What is your first memory of being in a library?  

Peter Behrens:  Notre Dame de Grace Public Library, on Queen Mary road, in Montreal.

RH LIBRARY: Do you have a favorite librarian?

Peter Behrens:  Pat Horton, Youth Services Librarian at Blue Hill Public Library.  She is teaching my son, 6, to love books and libraries.

RH LIBRARY: What is your most favorite library in the world?  

Peter Behrens:  Blue Hill Public Library. A town institution. They have excellent acquisitions, a knowledgeable staff, and are very open to the community.

RH LIBRARY: Why are libraries important?  

Peter Behrens:  Because books are important and libraries honor books and the act of reading.

RH LIBRARY: What event have you enjoyed attending at the library?  

Peter Behrens:  Well, I very much appreciate when libraries sponsor events around  my new novel THE O’BRIENS. Just did one this morning at the Skidompha Public Library in Damariscotta, Maine.

RH LIBRARY: What was the best book you remember checking out of the library and loving?

Peter Behrens:  The new biography of the statesman, George Kennan.

RH LIBRARY: If you were a character in a book who would you be?  

Peter Behrens:  I’d like to be Captain Jack Aubrey, please.

RH LIBRARY: Is there anything you’d like to share with librarians about your current book?  

Peter Behrens:  It’s a modern novel disguised as an old fashioned family epic/saga.

Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of ten Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, and the acclaimed novels A Darker Place, Folly, Keeping Watch, and Touchstone.

“I grew up in libraries.  We were a peripatetic family, and the suspicion was that my father would read his way through a library and move on.  And as libraries shaped my childhood, so do they shape my work: I doubt that I would have been able to establish myself as a writer of historical fiction were it not for the nearby university library, which even in this age of the Internet is my first choice in research. Entertainment, information, inspiration, community support: it’s all there, in the library.”

–Laurie R. King,  www.LaurieRKing.com  

We’re anxiously awaiting Laurie’s latest Mary Russell novel, Garment of Shadows, available in September!  Not to be missed!

 If you would like to enter our National Library Book Giveaway, simply fill out our entry form.  Here’s your last chance!

Today we welcome Steve Berry to our blog. Steve Berry’s new novel The Columbus Affair (out May 15, 2012) is sure to be a delight. In honor of National Library Week we share with you this special Q&A.

I loved when Steve talks about the writing of his novel The Alexandria Link and the reasons he would like to visit The Library of Alexandria.

“The ancient one is long gone.  But the modern incarnation is something incredible.  I dealt with all of the myth, legend, and facts of this incredible place.” 

Steve Berry Q&A

RH LIBRARY: First memory of being in a library?

STEVE BERRY:    Maybe 8 years old, in parochial school.   The library was a converted classroom, small, with few books, but what a wondrous place.

RH LIBRARY: What was the best book you remember checking out of the library and loving?

STEVE BERRY:  Those Hardy Boy mysteries that I first discovered as a child.  I can recall going back for the next one.  It was a marvelous.  Magical.  Like finding treasure.  Those books ignited my interest in reading.  The Twisted Claw, one of the Hardy Boy adventures, was the beginning of my love of international suspense thrillers.  I still have a copy of that book in my office, where I write everyday.  

RH LIBRARY: Why are libraries important?

STEVE BERRY:   They are the repositories of humankind’s knowledge, ideas, and imagination.  The only places on earth where all of our thoughts and creations are centralized, catalogued, and preserved for everyone to enjoy.

RH LIBRARY: Do you have a favorite library? 

STEVE BERRY:   The Library of Alexandria.  Of course, the ancient one is long gone.  But the modern incarnation is something incredible.  I dealt with all of the myth, legend, and facts of this incredible place in The Alexandria Link, a novel I wrote several years ago.  

RH LIBRARY: Do you have a favorite librarian?

STEVE BERRY:     Not really.  I’ve been in so many around the world and, I have to say, everyone has always been so helpful.  It seems a trait common to the industry, no matter where the library may be located.

RH LIBRARY:     In all the libraries you’ve been in what event did you attend in a library that you recall loving?

STEVE BERRY: No one event comes to mind as extra special.  I’ve attended so many.  I served as chairman of the library board in Camden County, Georgia for six years and can recall many interesting and fascinating programs.  As a published writer, I have appeared at quite a few library functions. As part of my History Matters foundation, we help raise money for libraries around the country. 

RH LIBRARY: If you were a character in a book who would you be? 

STEVE BERRY: I already am.  Cotton Malone, my recurring hero in 7 novels, is based on me.  When I created him I decided it was easier to just use me.  Most of his personality and flaws are mine.  The heroics are solely his.  

RH LIBRARY: Is there anything you’d like to share with librarians about your current book?

STEVE BERRY: The Columbus Affair, which releases May 15, 2012, is my first stand alone in 7 years.  It’s an intriguing tale dealing with one of the most mysterious men in all of history — Christopher Columbus — who we know next to nothing about.  I came across a great secret about Columbus, which forms the basis of the novel.  Check it out.  I think you’ll find it interesting.

~~*~~ Request a Digital RC from Edelweiss here.

 If you would like to enter our Steve Berry Book Giveaway simply fill out our entry form.

Today we are featuring Chris Bohjalian’s interview with us in celebration of National Library Week!!! 

Mr. Bohjalian is such a wonderful writer. This Easter weekend, I sat on my grandmother’s sun-drenched porch in Vermont, picked up the local newspaper and started reading Chris Bohjalian’s weekly column. It was about the Titanic and I was able to spend a blissful few moments reading a humorous column that was coupled with an in-depth history lesson. He is always painting beautiful scenes with his words. I hope you enjoy this interview with thoughts on why libraries are important to our communities as much as I did.

Bohjalian’s upcoming book The Sandcastle Girls is out this July. To request a digital RC from Edelweiss click here.

RH LIBRARY: Why are libraries important? 

CHRIS BOHJALIAN: We all understand on some level that there is something sacred about a book made of paper – even now in the digital age. So, a roomful of books – especially a roomful of shared books, of books that been savored and read and literally touched by one’s neighbors – is particularly magical.

Libraries today are indeed rooms full of books.  But they are more than that, too.  They’re community centers.  It doesn’t matter if they have carefully planned programs for adults – world travelers with their photos from Nepal, chefs with their recipes for ginger pumpkin mouse – or well-orchestrated story hours for toddlers.  It doesn’t matter if they offer adult literacy programs or seminars on estate planning.  They’re still magnets for human contact.  Moreover, they are multigenerational: How many places are there where seniors and toddlers and high school students all interact?  That is, in part, why libraries remain vital and vibrant today.

RH LIBRARY: What was the best book you remember checking out of the library and loving? 

CHRIS BOHJALIAN:  When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend. I started school the following Tuesday, and then, that afternoon, went to see my new orthodontist—a sadist, it would turn out, if ever there was one.  

He gave me some orthodontic headgear that looked like the business end of a backhoe, and I had to wear said device for four hours a day when I was awake.  Since I couldn’t (well, wouldn’t) wear it during school, I had to wear it after school. It was inevitable, but I couldn’t speak when I was wearing it.

And so what did I do that first autumn and winter—winter, such as it is, in South Florida?  I went to the Hialeah Miami Lake Public Library and I read. I read the sorts of things any adolescent boy was likely to read in the mid-1970s. I read William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist” and Peter Benchley’s “Jaws.” And, in all fairness, I read a somewhat higher caliber of literature as well: Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Joyce Carol Oates’s “Expensive People.”

I read those books in the library as well as in the den in our new home, and from them I learned a very great deal that would help me profoundly as an adult writer. I learned the importance of linear momentum in plot from Blatty and Benchley.  I learned about the importance of voice — and the role of person in fiction – from Lee and Oates.  

I learned on a level that may not have been fully concrete yet—but that did indeed adhere—that the narrator in a first-person novel is a character, too, and every bit as made-up as the fictional constructs around him or her.

RH LIBRARY: If you were a character in a book who would you be? 

CHRIS BOHJALIAN: Well, I would want that person to be alive and happy at the end of the story, so that immediately eliminates a lot of my favorite characters from novels.  I really don’t want to end up dead in my swimming pool a la Jay Gatsby or burned beyond recognition a la the English Patient. And it might be nice to be young.  And, perhaps, to have learned something in the course of my story – to have grown as a person.

So, I am going to pick the ten-year-old narrator of Patrick Dennis’s hilarious and underappreciated 1964 tale of one Manhattan family’s near implosion – and Mom and Dad’s near divorce – “The Joyous Season.” The novel is narrated by the family’s acerbic, insightful, and precocious ten-year-old son, Kerry (which, he tells us, “is short for Kerrington, for cripes sake”). Imagine Holden Caulfield with a sense of humor.  

I first read the book when I was in sixth grade, and I’ve re-read it three or four times since. It has never disappointed me – and neither has Kerry.

RH LIBRARY: Is there anything you’d like to share with librarians about your current book?

CHRIS BOHJALIAN: The book I have arriving on July 17, “The Sandcastle Girls,” is the most important book I have ever written – and I do not say that as pre-publication hyperbole.

It is about – as my fictional narrator says – “the Slaughter you know next to nothing about.”  She is referring to the Armenian Genocide in the midst of the First World War. Roughly 1,500,000 people would perish – including three of my four Armenian great-grandparents.

And yet I loved writing this novel because I cared so deeply about the characters.  It ended up being a big, sweeping, historical love story: The tale of an Armenian-American novelist at mid-life, who embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that reveals love, loss – and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.

If you would like to enter our Chris Bohjalian Book Giveaway simply fill out our entry form.  

Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Double Bind, The Night Strangers, and Skeletons at the Feast. His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah’s Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and three of his novels have become movies (Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.

www.chrisbohjalian.com

Debbie Macomber, the author of Hannah’s List, 1022 Evergreen Place, Summer on Blossom Street, 92 Pacific Boulevard, and Twenty Wishes, is a leading voice in women’s fiction. Three of her novels have scored the #1 slot on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Debbie Macomber’s Mrs. Miracle was Hallmark Channel’s top-watched movie for 2009. This prolific author has more than 140 million copies of her books in print worldwide.

RH Library: What is your first memory of being in a library?

Debbie Macomber:  I was about four or five years old when my mother took me to the library for the first time. This was in Yakima, Washington, one of the old Carnegie libraries built in stone. I remember that it resembled a castle to me. Even then I had a creative imagination, because I thought of myself as a Princess, visiting royalty, when I went to the library. 

I didn’t have books, other than the Golden Books my mother purchased for me. She said that when the librarian handed me my first hardcover, I took hold of it with both hands and placed it next to my heart. From that time forward I refused to go to bed or take a nap without a book in my hand. The amazing part of that story is the librarian who handed me my first book was Beverly Cleary. It was her first year as a librarian.

RH Library: Do you have a favorite librarian?

Debbie Macomber: Seeing that Beverly Cleary is the one who introduced me to the wonder of books, it would be easy to say it was Beverly.  However, there was a young librarian I got to know while in high school, again in Yakima, Washington.  Unfortunately, I don’t remember her name.  What I do recall was how much she loved stories and how she would steer me toward certain books.  After I read them we would talk about the story. She introduced me to Edna Ferber, Willa Cather, Booth Tarkington and so many others. It is because of her that I read these books and came to love the stories. Talking about the richness of story in these books made me dream of writing my own one day. I consider these authors my mentors and, in fact, have collected their signatures—along with a couple of dozen more—and have them on the staircase wall leading up to my writing room. Each day they remind me of the importance of story and encourage me to grow and learn as an author.

RH Library: Why are libraries important?

Debbie Macomber: Libraries bring a community together. The libraries I know are centers for education, fun and social activities. They partner with schools and social services, provide entertainment and education. They offer movie nights, author events, gardening and animal exhibits, and just plain fun.  And then, of course, there are the books . . . which says it all. 

RH Library: What was the best book you remember checking out of the library and loving?

Debbie Macomber: It was a collection of short stories written by Lillian Hellman called Pentimento. She tells one of the stories by blending the past and the present in such a reflective and philosophical way that even now, after all these years, I can still recite the first few lines.  “The letter said, says now, in Gothic Script, ‘Bethe will be sailing’ . . . .”  There was such meatiness in her descriptions that I read and reread the story countless times and with each visit came away with new insight. 

RH Library: Is there anything you’d like to share with librarians about your current book?

Debbie Macomber: The Inn at Rose Harbor, which will be published by Ballantine Books August 14, is the first book in my new series, which takes place in Cedar Cove. The Inn is actually a B & B and is owned by a recent widow who lost her husband in Afghanistan.  The first night she’s at the Inn her husband comes to her in a dream, and she knows buying the inn was the right decision for her. Later she realizes that she will heal at Rose Harbor Inn and that all who come to stay will also heal.  And as a note of interest, one of the first people she meets in town is the local librarian, Grace Harding. 

If you would like to enter our Debbie Macomber Book Giveaway simply fill out our entry form.  

Taylor Stevens is the New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist. The first novel featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe, it received critical acclaim and has been published in seventeen other countries. Raised in communes across the globe and denied an education beyond the sixth grade, Stevens broke free of the Children of God and now lives in Texas. She is at work on a third Munroe novel.

RH Library: What is your first memory of being in a library?

Taylor Stevens:  I was born and raised within the Children of God, an apocalyptic religious cult spun out of the 60’s, and the cult, in addition to viewing education past 6^th grade as a waste of time, didn’t allow access to books from the outside. I was fortunate, because unlike many of my cohorts, I was able to sporadically attend public school between grades one and six. We moved a lot, I attended maybe as many as dozen schools in that time frame, but the one constant between them was the school library which I would access every opportunity I could.

RH Library: Why are libraries important?

Taylor Stevens:  Even now I am incredibly under-read, but prior to THE INFORMATIONIST being published, hadn’t even read an online book review. I didn’t know that there was a world out there where people were connoisseurs of the written word, people who lived and breathed books, who understood books in the same way that a finance major understands spreadsheets. And I really had no idea whatsoever that a large portion of these people were librarians.

I find that it is not just for the sense of community or the free and open access to books that libraries are important, but because librarians truly know and understand books—know quality when they find it. That sounds like such a statement of the obvious, but I think many people don’t realize that librarians are able to provide for their patrons a similar curating experience to what independent book sellers provide for their customers. As an author I’m exceptionally grateful for the support that I’ve received from librarians who’ve appreciated my work and have introduced many readers to Vanessa Michael Munroe who would have otherwise never found her.

RH Library:  What would you like librarians to know about your new book?

Taylor Stevens:  That it’s really good. Ha-ha. In seriousness, THE INNOCENT, which is the second in the Vanessa Michael Munroe series is probably as close as I’ll ever get to writing an autobiography. Without a doubt THE INNOCENT is fiction, but just as THE INFORMATIONIST used the thriller format and the character of Munroe to take the reader through central Africa, so in THE INNOCENT she leads us behind the walls, into a religious cult (which mirrors The Children of God in which I was raised), skirting the gray areas of the law in order to infiltrate and kidnap back a 13-year-old girl who was kidnapped eight years prior.

If you would like to enter our Taylor Stevens Book Giveaway simply fill out our entry form.  

Karin Slaughter is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of twelve thrillers, including Criminal, Broken, Undone, Fractured, Beyond Reach, Triptych, and Faithless. She is a native of Georgia.

To help spread the word about the needs for community support for public libraries, Karin has spearheaded SaveTheLibraries.com.  The pilot event for SaveTheLibraries.com benefitted the DeKalb library system in Georgia.  A second event, planned for April, will feature Karin with Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, and Charlaine Harris, with funds going to the Boston Public Library. Karin’s efforts and her donation of all monies received for her original short story THORN IN MY SIDE have resulted in more than $150,000 donated in less than a year.

Visit Karin’s website (www.KarinSlaughter.com) to sign up for her e-newsletter and join her on Facebook (Facebook.com/AuthorKarinSlaughter)

 
RH Library:     My first memory of being in a library is?

Air conditioning.  It was summertime, and the library was the only building that had it.  I remember walking into the building and feeling the sweat on my back start to chill.  I knew this was the place I needed to spend the rest of my summer.

RH Library:     Do you have a favorite librarian? What my favorite librarian taught me?

I don’t think she was a “real” librarian, but the woman who drove the book mobile–a chain-smoking, child-hating terror, really galvanized my desire to read every book on the bus.  She was so mean!  She’d check every page of the book to make sure you hadn’t dog-eared a corner or smeared food or gotten it wet.  One time, my sisters stuck a Jolly Rancher in one of my books and I wasn’t allowed to check out any more for a month!  Boy, was I happy when we got the new library. 

RH Library:     My favorite library in the world is? Why?

I’ve visited some great systems–Cuyahoga, Ohio; Hoover, Alabama; Carmel, Indiana–but I think my favorite has to be that little library in Jonesboro, Georgia, where I first learned that there was an entire world outside my own.  Growing up in a small town, there weren’t that many positive women role models outside of teaching, nursing and mothering–not to say those aren’t important jobs, but three is a lonely number.  The women at the library (and they were all women) were the boss of the library.  That was quite a revelation for me.  I remember talking about it with my dad, and it really opened up a conversation between us, because this was the first (but not the last) time he told me that I could do anything I wanted with my life.  He wasn’t a reader himself, but he knew that reading was the key to opening up all kinds of doors for me.  Before that, I never knew I had options.

RH Library:     Why are libraries important?

I think the best way to explain it to people is to put it in financial terms, because lots of folks think of libraries as a luxury that should be the first thing on the chopping block when governments are in need.  60-80% of all kids in the juvenile justice system are functionally illiterate.  They are ten times more likely to end up in prison as adults.  Look at how much money that one illiterate kid costs, and contrast it with the net benefit of a kid who does well in school, goes to college, gets a higher paying job and pays higher taxes.  It’s simple math–every dollar spent on a library returns at least five dollars to the community.  And there are so many things libraries offer that the average person doesn’t know about.  For instance, there are computer sessions, ESL, classes on starting your own business or changing careers.  Libraries are also vital to many homeschoolers because they carry textbooks that are prohibitively expensive.  This isn’t just a liberal, tree-hugging issue.  Tea Party folk, Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians–we all benefit from the library.

RH Library:     What event did you love attending at the library?

They had this summer reading contest every year, and the winner got little construction paper stars with their name and the number of books they’d read on it.  I don’t wanna toot my own horn, but my bedroom was covered in stars by the time I got to high school.

RH Library:     What was the best book you remember checking out of the library and loving?

Gone With the Wind–absolutely and without a doubt one of the most moving and enlightening stories of my childhood.  You can easily make an argument against some of the stereotypes, but Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for very good reason.  I would also say that Scarlett was a great pre-feminist icon.  We know that Mitchell’s mother was heavily involved in the suffragist movement and that she raised her daughter to be independent and self-directed.  Mitchell created in Scarlett a great survivor, which certainly resonated with the generation of women who had survived the Depression, sometimes holding together their families by the skin of their teeth.  If you can put the story in context–not the 1860s, but the 1930s–there is so much more meaning to Scarlett’s transformation.

RH Library:     If you were a character in a book who would you be?

I’d like to be Cathy from Wuthering Heights.  I’d tell Linton to go screw himself and run off with Heathcliff.

RH Library:     Is there any you’d like to share with librarians about your current book?

I just love the story in Criminal, mostly because my research put me in touch with some fantastic women.  I think one of the most riveting conversation I had was with Valerie Jackson, the widow of former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson.  I knew mayor Jackson did some great things for the city, but I had no idea that he took great strides to make sure that women were raised up by the changing tides.  He was a great believer in equality for all–not just black and white, but male and female.  Also, since part of the story takes place in the 1970s, I was able to talk about some issues that are pretty hot topics now, but for some reason, are more palatable when you talk about them in the past.

     I would also like to end with a special thanks to all the librarians out there who are doing the Lord’s work.  Save the Libraries is just getting off the ground, but please know that more help is on the way.

If you would like to enter our Karin Slaughter Book Giveaway simply fill out our entry form.  

We’re kicking off National Library Week with Anne Rice!! Below is a wonderful Q&A with Anne. We love her first memory of going to the library. Calling a library a “treasure house” is a wonderful way to describe a library. Anne also tells us about her latest novel The Wolf Gift.

RH LIBRARY:       My first memory of being in a library is? 

ANNE RICE:         My first memory is my Dad taking me to the children’s library of the main New Orleans library in New Orleans.  It was a big old Greek Revival Style building at Lee Circle in New Orleans, and we could easily get there by a long walk on St. Charles Avenue or by riding the famous St. Charles Street car, which cost seven cents in those days.  The Children’s Section was in the basement and you went down a flight of stairs.  I found it magical from the start, a treasure house of marvelous children’s books on mythology and prehistoric beasts.  I totally loved it.   Ever after that my sister, Alice, and I went several times a week to the library, and library books filled our house growing up.  I don’t think either one of us ever visited a bookstore until we were teenagers.  There simply was no bookstore that we knew.  The library was a wonderful part of our lives. 

RH LIBRARY:     Why are libraries important?

ANNE RICE:            Libraries are vital; they are clean well lighted places where people can be in the company of books of all kinds for hours on end, in silence, and in safety.  I cannot stress how important they are.   When I was a young mother in San Francisco, I got away to the neighborhood branch library for the most blissful visits, where I would do research on a novelist I was reading (Flaubert), or examine the latest books, or delve into an historical subject.  I cannot tell you how I relied on that beautiful branch library.  It was on Taraval Avenue in San Francisco, and coincidentally on a street car line just like the great New Orleans library of my childhood.  I loved it with all my heart.  Later on we moved to Berkeley, California, and I loved the main library there. I would take my daughter in a stroller to the library and check out fabulous books on all subjects, books I could never have afforded. I had a canvas sack on the stroller to transport those treasure troves home and back. 

RH LIBRARY:     What was the best book you remember checking out of the library and loving?

ANNE RICE:         Books about prehistoric animals were my early favorites; also books on Greek mythology written for children.  I fell headlong into the world of Greek mythology at the library and never grew tired of it. But the most memorable experience was reading Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre in the school library in high school.  I read the whole novel in after school sessions in that library.  

RH LIBRARY:     If you were a character in a book who would you be?

ANNE RICE:         I’d be the god Apollo. 

RH LIBRARY:     Is there anything you’d like to share with librarians about your current book? 

ANNE RICE:         My current novel, The Wolf Gift, is a novel about a young man who becomes a werewolf and has to find out what that means.  Like all my novels, it is being offered to an adult audience, but kids are going to want to read it.  Kids as young as eleven email me about my novels, especially my vampire novels, and many times readers tell me that they started reading my books at nine or ten or eleven.  So when the kids ask for an adult book, please be kind and open to their reading it.  When I was a kid I snuck into the adult section all the time and read voraciously of the adult fare.  

If you would like to enter our Anne Rice Book Giveaway simply fill out our entry form.  

To celebrate National Library Week we have an exciting week of author interviews and book giveaways on our very own blog! Visit us daily to find out why our authors love libraries. During the week we’ll  host Anne Rice, Peter Behrens, Steve Berry, Chris Bohjalian, Debbie Macomber, Karin Slaughter, and Taylor Stevens! Did you notice that we said book giveaways, oh yeah, there will be book giveaways and they will be grand.

If you are attending TLA this year we hope you’ll join us at some of our special events.

First off, when the exhibit opens on Tuesday, April 17 we hope you swing by BOOTH #1400 to say hello and check out all the wonderful books we’ve brought to Texas for you to enjoy. We’ll also be giving out free galleys throughout the conference.

On Thursday, April 19 we will be showing up to the PUBLISHERS DISH armed with information about the Latest Buzz in Books for Adults. Starts at 10am. Conference room 340 AB, Level 3.

On the last day of the conference Friday, April 20 Elizabeth will be presenting at the “HOW to HOST an AUTHOR PROGRAM PANEL”. It starts at 10am. Check the conference program for location.

Also on Friday, JUSTIN CRONIN (The Passage) will be at the TLA CLOSING LUNCHEON to speak about his upcoming new book The Twelve. Starts at noon at the Hilton Americas.

See you in Houston!