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What is the title of your latest release?TIME TRAVEL FOR BEGINNERS What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?A nondescript storefront on a suburban Sydney street, between a sushi place and a geloato bar, calls itself the Time Travel Agency. It offers twenty-minute trips back in time, for a fee – customers can immerse themselves anywhere from Mesopotamia to London in the 1960s or revisit a time in their own life. The catch is, nothing in the present will change. Anna gets a job at the agency, Teddy is a customer, and Jade thinks it’s a cruel hoax and wants to burn the place down. How did you decide where your book was going to take place?The idea came to me when I was riding a bus along Military Road in Neutral Bay, Sydney, Australia – a suburb just across the harbour from downtown. Through the window, I glimpsed a Time Travel Agency. I was intensely excited. (A Time Travel Agency! They’ve discovered the secret to time travel!) Then I looked again and realised that no, it was not a Time Travel Agency. A billboard for Time magazine had slipped against the window of a local travel agency – I’d…

Excerpt from PINK INK by Avina St. Graves: I pause in front of a painting of a dead angel hanging upside down. Folding my hands behind my back, I tip my head to the side. The piece in front of me is . . . fascinating, to say the least. Shaw’s pieces usually are. Mom took me to his exhibit in Chicago a couple years back. She had been watching his rise to fame ever since he first hit the news as a teen. The man has talent, but he’s nowhere near as good as he used to be. I suppose what comes up must come down. The angel is holding together his shattered body with broken fingers. Midnight hues and flecks of crimson blot along his porcelain skin. Pools of scarlet and royal-blue velvet, vases, jewels, and golden filigree decorate his surroundings. The longer I look at it, the clearer it becomes—the subject is a woman, not a man. I edge closer to get a better look. Her eyes are hollow. Darkness colors between the cracks of her skin, except for the dull light trickling though from her center. Her fragile hands and fraying threads of gold hold her…

What is the title of your latest release?CLEAN SLATE What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?A crime scene cleaner gets pulled into the hunt for a serial killer after she discovers a clue the police missed. How did you decide where your book was going to take place?It’s set in Atlanta because I knew I wanted a big city where Olive would have a lot of business, but also I wanted it to feel like a tight community that she operated within. Atlanta felt like it could provide both. Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?One hundred percent. Olive is cool and funny (she loves a good pun) and incredibly loyal. Her worst trait is that she spends too much time around brains and fecal matter, but she makes the best of it and approaches both her job and life with self-deprecating humor. What are three words that describe your hero?Hard-working, loyal and a practical-optimist What’s something you learned while writing this book?I learned so much about cleaning up bodily fluid, and things like the fact that brain matter hardens into cement when it gets flung against a wall. Do you edit as you draft or…

Our new novel, TIME TO BURN – the fourth we have written as a husband-and-wife duo – features the world’s first commercial time-travel company, Tempus Tours, sending groups of the super-rich, the only people who can afford its trips, back to Second World War London. We alighted on this era partly for the reasons the company’s founder, Inigo Frank, describes in the novel: it is not so far back that any butterfly effect would necessarily be catastrophic, and the time tourists are unlikely to meet themselves. But we also chose it because this is a period of London’s history that has always fascinated us. We live in the East End of London, a part of the city deeply scarred by the bombs that began falling on 7 September 1940. In fact, every day on the school run, we walk past a plaque commemorating the spot where the first V-1 flying bomb fell on London, on 13 June 1944, on Grove Road, Mile End. Quite often, when we were trying to solve a knotty plot problem – or simply trying to imagine what it would have been like on London’s streets more than eighty years ago – we visited places that helped…

What is the title of your latest release?TWILIGHT TACTICS What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?When an FBI agent brings a teenage murder witness to a Tennessee veterans’ ranch for safekeeping, a coordinated siege descends on the property. No one can tell whether the attackers are after the girl on the witness list or the survival instructor with the mysterious past. How did you decide where your book was going to take place?I wanted a setting that could double as a sanctuary and a battleground — somewhere remote enough that help wouldn’t be easy to reach, but with a community of people who already knew how to fight when fighting was needed. Broken Chains Ranch is a trauma recovery facility for veterans tucked into the Tennessee hills in the fictional town of Whitestone. Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?Elena Thompson? Absolutely. I’d let her pick the venue, thought, because she’d choose somewhere with sight lines and an exit. Ha. Seriously, she’s smart, capable, and compassionate. She also carries a past she doesn’t talk about, and I find that intriguing rather than off-putting. I think we’d be friends. What are three words that describe your hero?Steady….

Here’s the thing: when I write, I need complete silence. No music playing, no TV in the background, just me, the keyboard, and the sweet sound of nothing (which can be pretty hard in a household with two energetic kids, a husband who likes the volume on its loudest setting, and an (adorable!) poodle with an excessive barking issue). But that doesn’t mean I don’t imagine each scene I write cinematically, complete with the background music the characters would be listening to. So, I’ve put together my top five songs that sum up the plot of OMETHING LIKE DESIRE. But first, here’s a little about my story: Meet Lexi Callen, a woman who craves a job more fulfilling than her current HR position fielding complaints about the theft of workplace mugs and loud typing caused by too-long acrylic nails. When her Mom asks to meet for coffee, Lexi knows something is up, but she never expects to learn that her mom is having an affair, just weeks before her sister’s wedding. Lexi launches into full stop-the-affair mode, complete with stakeouts and a trip to a resort. There, she meets Zach, the grumpy, defensive son of her mom’s new guy whom…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Andra Loy! Writes:I write contemporary rom-coms with snappy banter and elements of magical realism. My new release, THE ROMAN HOLIDAY RULE, is set in Rome and follows Lexi Walker, who has every minute of her trip to Rome planned. Her seat-mate on the plane, Mark Russo, has sworn off American tourists after his last heartbreak. When a photography bet keeps them sparring throughout the city, their competitive banter turns to undeniable chemistry. They both know the cardinal rule of holiday romances, but maybe a little bit of magic will prove that sometimes the best love stories break all the rules. About:Looking to laugh, travel through books, and fall in love (with my characters?) I lived overseas for twenty years collecting story ideas and traveling to hot destinations in Europe. Now I live with my husband and three children in Michigan, where I’m taking applications for the ideal reader — someone looking for real connections, big laughs, gorgeous destinations, and swoon-worthy romance. Reading my books…

Excerpt from THE PROJECT by Annie Lord: 1 We head down to the basement where the dance floor’s been set up. It smells like damp, and blue disco lights dapple over the walls. At the back, a guy in an Irish football top nods over the decks. He’s got a bony, birdlike face, one where you can see the skull underneath it. Maya, my best friend, who I dragged here tonight, hates this kind of music, this unce-unce-unce. She’s trying her best to look like she’s having fun because she knows how much I need this night to go well, sliding her hips left and right, braid snaking through the air, so shiny it could be glass. A little dishevelled knit top and then her toned stomach, a line moving down the middle like an R’n’B singer from the nineties. My eyes flick up to the stairs to see if it’s him coming down but, again, it’s not. I can’t help it. When I was in the living room earlier I was the same – the doorbell would ring and I’d look over the head of the person I was speaking to and check who it was. He’s probably not…

Excerpt from AUTUMN AT THE CAT CAFE by Kathleen Fuller: “Oh, we’re taking Gold Yeller.” That’s right. With everything going on, he forgot about Earl’s truck. “I plan on getting a bunch of pumpkins, or else we’d take my car.” “You don’t want to ride in the Turismo?” She paused. “I hadn’t thought about it. Anyway, Gold Yeller is parked out back. Which reminds me, you should probably park back there too.” “Not a chance.” There was a window in the apartment that faced the front of the square, but not the back parking lot. “Too risky.” Via’s expression was incredulous. “You’re worried about it getting stolen?” “Or damaged. It’s a three-hundred-thousand-dollar car, Via. Yeah, I’m worried about theft.” “That’s a lot of money. Hedge funds must be booming.” “I do all right.” He did better than all right, but he didn’t like to brag—his foolish mention of summa cum laude notwithstanding. “Pecan Corner is safe,” she said. “We’ve only had two break-ins in the last ten years. The worst crime people commit around here is being a little drunk and disorderly around the holidays. Sheriff Griffin is bored half the time.” “I don’t want to take the chance.” A…