It’s Friday, friends, and you know what that means… let’s talk about what we’re reading!
I’m deep into V.E. Schwab’s THE FRAGILE THREADS OF POWER. V will be in Nashville next week, and I’m interviewing her both for A WORD ON WORDS and for her event with Parnassus Books. I’m excited, because A - we haven’t seen one another in person for years, and B - this book is FANTASTIC. I’m enjoying it tremendously. Threads upon threads, all interwoven, past and present colliding, favorite characters revisited and new ones to love (and hate). It’s a lot of fun.
Another recommendation - my dearest Paige Crutcher has a new book out this week, WHAT BECAME OF MAGIC, which arrived while I was on my trip. I can’t wait to dig in!
about her approach to social media (genuine) and how well it worked. Could you or I replicate this? Probably not. This is lightning in a bottle, the perfect storm of how social media SHOULD work to sell books. Authentic interaction. Debut novelist. Catchy hook. Publisher support. And if the reviews have it right, she’s got the writing chops to back it all up. I’ve enjoyed watching her success story. ⚡️
In another fascinating look into the inner workings of publishing, Kathleen Schmidt over at
wrote us a piece on log lines. As always, paid subscribers get the craft posts first, so consider subscribing! It should come up in your feeds Tuesday.
And you can watch or listen to my latest A WORD ON WORDS interview with none other than the queen of Italian cooking herself, Lidia Bastianich!
So how about you? What are you reading this weekend?
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I'm continuing my theme of reading older books and this one was out in 2015--THE KIND WORTH KILLING by Peter Swanson. A great read. Reminds me a bit of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN by Patricia Highsmith.
I need to start reading VE Schwab again...the bar was set high with Addie LaRue.
I'm currently reading Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer Armentrout. It's good, but I've enjoyed her other books more.
Fall has NOT happened here in southeast Nebraska. It's going to be in the lower 90s today!
Puzzle House by Duncan Ralston
The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden
We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Birder, She Wrote (Meg Langslow, #33) by Donna Andrews
Rouge by Mona Awad
What Became of Magic is now on my reading list. It sounds fabulous. 🩷
Juno Dawson - Her Majesty’s Coven. Getting witchy for Halloween 🎃
I'm continuing my theme of reading older books and this one was out in 2015--THE KIND WORTH KILLING by Peter Swanson. A great read. Reminds me a bit of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN by Patricia Highsmith.