Speaking of Writers

About MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES: When a devoted teacher comes under pressure for her progressive curriculum and a helicopter mom goes viral on social media, two women at odds with each other find themselves in similar predicaments, having to battle back from certain social ruin. Isobel Johnson has spent her career in Liston Heights sidestepping the community’s high-powered families. Bu...

Imagine an event that brings hundreds of Members of Congress—from both chambers and parties— together for an evening to learn about and revel in American history. Not only is it true, it’s happened more than 38 times over the past six years. In 2013, David Rubenstein, philanthropist and co-founder of The Carlyle Group, approached the Librarian of Congress with an idea for an event series in which...

Piper Manning’s about as tough as they come, she’s had to be. She raised her siblings and they’ve thankfully flown the coop. All she has to do is finish fixing up the lake house her grandparents left her, sell it, and then she’s free. When a massive storm hits, she runs into a tall, dark and brooding stranger, Camden Reid. There’s a spark there, one that shocks her. Surprising her further, her sis...

Few of us realize that much of our language in the workplace inhibits creative problem-solving and escalates uncertainty and stress. In both high-pressure situations and everyday scenarios, in each meeting and email, we have the opportunity to empower (or disempower) our colleagues. In Turn the Ship Around! , former US Navy Captain David Marquet , told the incredible story of abandoning command-an...

In her electrifying, highly anticipated debut novel, Followers (Graydon House), journalist Megan Angelo imagines a world where our collective celebrity obsession and device-driven lifestyle almost get the best of us. Megan Angelo ’s writing has appeared in publications like the New York Times (where she helped launch city comedy coverage), Glamour (where she was a contributing editor and wrote a c...

In  SIZING PEOPLE UP , Dreeke shares his simple, six-step system to help predict anyone’s behavior based on their words, goals, patterns of action, and the situation at hand. For instance, a colleague might have a strong moral code, but do they believe your relationship will be long-term? Even the most upstanding person can betray your trust if they don’t see themselves tied to you or your de...

An Arizona native, Kiley Reid is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. Her short stories have been featured and are forthcoming in Ploughshares, December, New South , and Lumina , where her short story was the first-place winner in the 2017 Flash Prose Contest. In Summer 2018, she attended the Cuttyhunk Island Residency as the...

MAKE NOISE: A Creator's Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling by Eric Nuzum is the first book on the craft of audio storytelling from a true podcasting pioneer. Nuzum has created and produced podcasts that routinely top the charts, appear in yearly “best of” lists, and win awards. Of the six billion podcast downloads each year, more than one billion of those are for the 130 podcasts Nuz...

WHEN YOU SEE ME is Gardner’s most daring novel yet. Set far from her usual haunts (the streets of Boston and the wilds of New Hampshire), the book’s backdrop is a secluded Georgia mountain community that oozes small-town sinister. A haven for hikers in the summer and not much else, Niche, Georgia has flown under the radar for decades…but when human remains are discovered at the edge of a popular h...

Matthew Rose’s mind is a mystery. Especially to himself. A bombing in Iraq has left the former soldier with a traumatic brain injury, and now he can’t be sure about anything. The past is a cloudy haze to him, filled with jumbles of impressions and not many solid memories. Unfortunately for him, that could have deadly consequences for his future – how can he protect himself from a killer when he ca...

Rochelle B. Weinstein is the  USA Today  bestselling author of emotionally driven women’s fiction, including  Somebody’s Daughter ,  Where We Fall ,  The Mourning After , and  What We Leave Behind . Rochelle spent her early years in sunny South Florida, always with a book in hand, raised by the likes of Sidney Sheldon and Judy Blume. Upon graduating from the Philip Me...

In HUNTER KILLER  Pike Logan tracks highly-trained Russian assassins to Brazil after a vicious explosion kills a friend in Charleston, South Carolina. Pike knows the attack was meant for him. And when he loses contact with the Taskforce who are on a counter-terrorist mission in Brazil, Pike is convinced he and the Taskforce are under assault. Pike, along with his partner Jennifer Cahill, head...

What caused Tiger Woods to fall farther than any beloved athlete in recent history, and even more, what led to his improbable return to glory at the 2019 Masters?  Curt Sampson is one of America’s leading golf writers whose new book, ROARING BACK (Diversion Books, October 2019) retells the phenomenal comeback of one of the most iconic golfers ever.  From the highs and lows of his career,...

A ski resort owner in Montana is murdered. Other deaths, once believed to be accidental, receive a fresh look from television reporter JC Snow and police investigators. There could be a serial killer in the resort community. Grizzly Mountain is a ski resort full of snow country characters, from ski racers to ski bums to overdressed billionaires. An unfortunate few may be caught in the claws of Gri...

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him. Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries—reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the world. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. His q...

Two years after The Guests on South Battery became a New York Times hardcover bestseller, Melanie Trenholm returns. Finally married to true-crime bestselling author Jack Trenholm, they are living in Melanie’s historic home with their 18-month old twins and Jack’s fifteen-year-old daughter. But domestic bliss can’t last for long. A new passel of spirits have taken up residence at Fifty-Five Tradd,...

ABOUT THE BOOK: In JUST WATCH ME , Riley aims for an extraordinary target in a heist that will go down in history books: he will try to steal the Crown Jewels of Iran. Lent to the U.S. for diplomatic relations, the jewels are worth billions of dollars. Yet Riley’s draw to the jewels isn’t the potential payoff but rather that it can’t be done. With the best tech guarding the jewels, not to mention...

An Iowa native, George Lunn came to Schenectady in 1904 to become senior pastor at the First Reformed Church in the city's Stockade Neighborhood. He entered politics in 1911 and was elected mayor of Schenectady as a member of the Socialist Party. He worked with General Electric scientist Charles Steinmetz to create Central Park and improve the city's school system, and also initiated free garbage...

Professional sports is a multi-billion dollar business that pays players extremely well, but it wasn’t always that way.  How did pro sports go from a quaint collection of athletes who needed side jobs in the off-season, to the lucrative industry for players it is today?  Jim Quinn is the legendary sports lawyer who spearheaded free agency for every professional sports league, including t...

THE CITY GAME by bestselling author Matthew Goodman is the incredible underdog story of the 1949-50 City College Beavers basketball team, their unlikely rise to top and subsequent fall from grace. In this gripping, true-life account, Goodman uncovers the real story behind the greatest American sports scandal since the 1919 “Black Sox.” In 1950 the City College Beavers became the only basketball te...

Mitch Albom is the author of six consecutive number-one  New York Times  bestsellers and has sold more than thirty-four million copies of his books.   He returns this year to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade with the release of his new memoir,  Finding Chika:  A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family . Finding Chika is the...

Internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys is renowned for writing novels that uncover hidden histories, and for giving a voice to the voiceless. THE FOUNTAINS OF SILENCE is s et in Madrid, during the summer of 1957, and told in alternating voices, this riveting novel sheds light on the hidden and all-but-forgotten tragedies of Franco-era Spain to deliver a grippi...

On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s tur...

Jami is the author of six books: Instant Love , The Kept Man , The Melting Season , New York Times bestseller The Middlesteins , Saint Mazi e, and national bestseller All Grown Up , which was published in March 2017 in the US and the UK, and in Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Poland, Russia, China, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Portugal and Hungary in 2018. Her seventh book, All This Could Be Yours...

OVERTIME: Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football offers a powerful look into a legendary program—and the sport itself—that only bestselling author John U. Bacon could deliver. Based on Bacon’s unprecedented access to the program, OVERTIME follows the University of Michigan’s coaches, players, and staffers through the 2018 season, including head coach Jim Har...