Every Sunday I read a column in the New York Times called By The Book where an author is interviewed about their habits. They always ask where they read. Unfortunately, only occasionally do they ask where they write. Personally, I love to see where wordsmithing and creativity mingle. I have a couple spaces of my own. Two or three… Maybe four. Okay, there are several, but I basically divide them into three categories.
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Forget what you may have heard about The Muffia—banish the thoughts of lesbian pornographers and the militant English mums who expose bad mothering. The Muffia is, in fact, my Los Angeles based, all women’s book club. That’s right; we read books—not even particularly sexy books.
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The book has received an overwhelming amount of praises. Some even hailed it as Connelly’s best work. I couldn’t wait to read it.
The book? Michael Connelly’s 9 Dragons.
As an author, I planned not only to read 9 Drangons for pleasure, I’d read it as a student learning from a master.
I rushed to the store, bought a copy, hurried home, and began to read it . . . and hated it.
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When I received the initial email from my agent saying St Martin’s Press was looking for original New Adult fiction, I was visiting Jane Austen’s house in Hampshire. Maybe it was the atmosphere, but an historical idea I’d kept floating around in the back of my mind instantly sprang forth. I pitched that idea, and within a month it was contracted and I was away and writing what would become The Heiresses.
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One word: Amazing. The trailer for The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani will have “kids” of all ages gasping to read it. We were totally enthralled and captivated even before the quotes from R.L. Stine and comparisons to J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl rolled by.
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Cassie Scot: Paranormal Detective is the first book in a new urban fantasy series from award-winning author Christine Amsden. Cassie is the daughter of two powerful sorcerers, although she has no magical powers of her own. Caught between two worlds, she’ll have to decide where she truly belongs. The author stops by to fill us in on the origination of Cassie Scot.
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