Books archive: June 2010 Archives

 Here's what was featured in the April edition of The Big Thrill:

Hot off the press:
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• 100 Must Reads, Edited by David Morrell & Hank Wagner
• Midnight Angels, by Lorenzo Carcaterra
• Blood Law, by Jeannie Holmes
• They're Watching, by Gregg Hurwitz
• The Long Quiche Goodbye, by Avery Aames
• The Whisper, by Carla Neggers
• The Prophecy, by Chris Kuzneski
• The Chill of Night, by James Hayman
• The Burning Wire, by Jeffery Deaver
• Colby Control, by Debra Webb
• Carnal Sin, by Allison Brennan
• The Ocean Dark, by Jack Rogan
• The Missing, by Shiloh Walker
• Rancher's Brand of Justice, by Ann Voss Peterson
• Bone Island, by Heather Graham
• The Oath, by Michael Jecks
• Goosebumps HorrorLand: WEIRDO HALLOWEEN, by R.L. Stine
• Snowbound, by Blake Crouch
• The Rule of Nine, by Steve Martini
• The Pharos Objective, by David Sakmyster
• Nightshade, by Ronie Kendig
• The Ghost and Miss Demure, by Melanie Jackson
• The Honest Assassin, by C. J. Carver
• The Cabal, by David Hagberg
• Hostage Zero, by John Gilstrap
• Primeval, by David L. Golemon
• Blood and Ice, by Robert Masello
• White Heat, by Brenda Novak
• Unspeakable, by Laura Griffin
• Foreign Influence, by Brad Thor
• Wolf's Bluff, by W.D. Gagliani
• The Panic Zone, by Rick Mofina
• Nightmare, by Robin Parrish
• Torn Apart, by Shane Gericke
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, by Tom Monteleone
• Dangerous Desires, by Dee Davis
• Damage Control, by Amy J. Fetzer
• Layover in Dubai, by Dan Fesperman
• People of the Longhouse, by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
• Feline Fatale, by Linda O. Johnston
• The Secrets of Paradise Bay, by Devon Vaughn Archer
• Cold Sight, by Leslie Parrish
• The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind, by Cheryl Paradis
• A Between The Lines interview with Heather Graham
• Thrillers: 100 Must Reads - An Interview with Christine Kling
• International News from Mike Nicol

Coming next month: a Between The Lines interview with Peter James, and the latest thrillers from Peter Guttridge, Steven James, Brenda Novak, Juan Gómez-Jurado, Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner, Ridley Pearson, Cynthia Eden, Kevin Guilfoile, Brenda Novak, Richard Doetsch, Mark Haskell Smith, Raymond Benson, Timothy Hallinan, Annelise Ryan, L.J. Sellers, Justin Peacock, PD Martin, Dee Davis and more. It's gonna be a thriller!

ThrillerFest News

"ThrillerFest has lots of extras this year," adds Kathleen Antrim, ThrillerFest director, says. "For starters, there's a party every night:

Wednesday night: CraftFest Cocktail Party.
Thursday night: Opening Reception Cocktail Party.
Friday night: ITW Publications Reception. By the time ThrillerFest arrives, ITW will have launched four major new publications. To celebrate these works, we're having a grand signing/cocktail party.
Saturday night: ITW Awards Banquet. One ticket, one night, three parties: the pre-event cocktail party, the banquet, and the post-event after-party.

Snap Critiques (Friday, July 9th, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.) - Bring the first 400-500 words of your novel for an on-the-spot review!

If you haven't yet registered, log onto www.ThrillerFest.org for event details, registration link, and hotel reservations.  Be there!

Meanwhile, check out the interviews with ThrillerFest Headiners Brad Meltzer, Linda Fairstein and Gayle Lynds, the next three profiles in our ongoing ThrillerFest Headliners series, posted now in ThrillerFest "Latest News."

New Website: The Big Thrillers

The list of ITW publications is growing! Now there's a brand-new website where you can find information about all of ITW's terrific anthologies, audio books, and serial novels in one place - Thriller, Thriller2, Watchlist, The Chopin Manuscript, The Copper Bracelet, First Thrills, and Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads.  Check it out! www.thebigthrillers.com

Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads - Just released!

A new ITW publication is now available from Oceanview, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner, features 100 works--from Beowulf to The Bourne Identity, Dracula to Deliverance, Heart of Darkness to The Hunt for Red October--deemed must-reads by the International Thriller Writers organization.

Much more than an anthology, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads goes deep inside the most notable thrillers published over the centuries. Through lively, spirited, and thoughtful essays that examine each work's significance, impact, and influence, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads provides both historical and personal perspective on those spellbinding works that have kept readers on the edge of their seats for centuries.  100MustReads.com

Read the interview this month with Christine Kling, as well as previous interviews with Gayle Lynds, Tess Gerritsen and Douglas Preston, then watch this space for more details! 

First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors - Now available!

First Thrills includes never-before-published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, Heather Graham, Gregg Hurwitz, John Lescroart, John Lutz (with Lise E. Baker), Alex Kava (with Deb Carlin), Michael Palmer (with Daniel James Palmer), Karin Slaughter, and Wendi Corsi Staub.

The collection also serves as an introduction to a new generation of thriller authors, including Sean Michael Bailey, Ken Bruen, Ryan Brown, Bill Cameron, Rebecca Cantrell, Karen Dionne, JT Ellison, Theo Gangi, Rip Gerber, CJ Lyons, Grant McKenzie, Marc Paoletti, Cynthia Robinson, and Kelli Stanley.

"Hands down one of the best short story collections you're ever likely to read."--Booklist, starred review

More at www.first-thrills.com

  New! Watchlist iPhone and iPad App

Vanguard Press is extremely proud to support the ITW and to announce that Watchlist, the killer collaboration between 22 bestselling authors from the ITW, is now available as an interactive App for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Jefffery Deaver, who conceived of the idea for Watchlist, created the main characters and set the plots in motion. Each author wrote a chapter and then Deaver brought both novellas to their startling conclusions.  Watchlist for the iPad presents both The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet novellas in one suspenseful thriller and features insightful video interviews with select authors. It also includes excerpts narrated by Alfred Molina and more. Download the App from iTunes now!

Here's what was featured in the April edition of The Big Thrill:

Click on a book title to read the feature story

• Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
• Broken by Karin Slaughter
  
• Day One by Bill Cameron
  
• Damaged by Pamela Callow
  
• Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen
  
• Running Dark by Jamie Freveletti
  
• Silencing Sam by Julie Kramer
• A Night of Long Knives by Rebecca Cantrell
• First Thrills anthology edited by Lee Child
  
• Bodily Harm by Robert Dugoni
  
• Reel Murder by Mary Kennedy
  
• Inside Out by Barry Eisler
• Foodchain by Jeff Jacobson
• Wanna Get Lucky? by Deborah Coonts
• Terminated by Simon Wood
• The Anniversary Man by R.J. Ellory
  
• House Justice by Mike Lawson
  
• The Argentine Kidnapping by Bill Sheehy
  
• Love Kills by Dianne Emley
  
• Wedding Favors by Nikita Black, Allyson James, Sheri Whitefeather
  
• Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective by Eric Van Lustbader
  
• The Promised War by Thomas Greanias
  
• Vicious by Kevin O'Brien
  
• The Cold Kiss by John Rector
  
• Rider by Jim Bernheimer
  
• Wired Kingdom by Rick Chesler
  
• Night Myst by Yasmine Galenorn
• Silent Scream by Karen Rose
  
• Dark Sea by E. J. Rand
  
• The Wolves of Fairmount Park by Dennis Tafoya
  
• Blood Song by Cat Adams
• Strong Justice by Jon Land
  
• Ancestor by Scott Sigler
• The Remains by Vincent Zandri
  
• Ashes to Water by Irene Ziegler
  
• The Road Closed by Leigh Russell
  
• Book of Shadows by Alexandra Sokoloff
  
• Risk No Secrets by Cindy Gerard
  
• Justice in June by Barbara Levenson
• Terror's Reach by Tom Bale
• No Way Out by David Kessler
• What A Girl Wants by Selena Robins
• Eurostorm by Payne Harrison
  
• The Advocate's Betrayal by Teresa Burrell
  
• The Frenzy Way by Gregory Lamberson
  
• Wraith by James R. Hannibal
  
• Ghost Shadow by Heather Graham
  
• Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann
  
• A Between The Lines interview with Janet Evanovich
• Thrillers: 100 Must Reads - An Interview with James O. Born
  
• International News from Mike Nicol

ThrillerFest News

JUST POSTED: CraftFest, AgentFest and ThrillerFest Schedule!

Nearly 40 agents have signed up for AgentFest! Find out who in the AgentFest section of www.thrillerfest.org.  You can also read a profile of an debut author who's launching big this month thanks to finding his agent at AgentFest. Check out the world-class authors and agents who are instructors at CraftFest, and back in Latest News, coming soon: the next in the continuing series of our 2010 ThrillerFest Headliners, Lisa Scottoline.

"ThrillerFest has lots of extras this year," adds Kathleen Antrim, ThrillerFest director, says. "For starters, there's a party every night:

Wednesday night: CraftFest Cocktail Party.
Thursday night: Opening Reception Cocktail Party.
Friday night: ITW Publications Reception. By the time ThrillerFest arrives, ITW will have launched four major new publications. To celebrate these works, we're having a grand signing/cocktail party.
Saturday night: ITW Awards Banquet. One ticket, one night, three parties: the pre-event cocktail party, the banquet, and the post-event after-party.

If you haven't yet registered, log onto www.ThrillerFest.org for event details, registration link, and hotel reservations.  Be there!

New in ThrillerFest Headliners

Larry Light profiles Mark Bowden, author of the renowned BLACK HAWK DOWN and recipient of ThrillerFest's first-ever True Thrillers award for nonfiction. Click to read all about him. When you're done, scroll down to catch our earlier profiles of Headliners Lisa Scottoline and Harlan Coben . . . and look forward to our June Blitz: profiles of Brad Meltzer, Gayle Lynds, Linda Fairstein, David Morrell, and 2010 ThrillerMaster Ken Follett. It's all in Latest News.

WATCHLIST: Two Serial Thrillers in One Killer Book!

Imagine a literary jam session with 22 of your favorite masters of pulse-pounding fiction and you have WATCHLIST: Two Serial Thrillers in One Killer Book. Jeffery Deaver conceived of the characters and put the plot into motion and Jim Fusilli leant a sharp editorial eye, finely orchestrating this chorus of suspense that includes such top writers as Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline, Gayle Lynds, P.J. Parrish and many others. Dramatic tension ties the novellas together as each thriller titan leads the reader down dark alleys and around blind corners, saving the fireworks for the climactic endings, also crafted by Jeffery Deaver.

This two-fisted tome has the chills, breakneck pacing, and diabolical switchbacks that thriller lovers have come to expect. Reading into the wee, small hours is practically guaranteed.

Read and listen to a review of WATCHLIST by Lynn Neary on NPR's "All Things Considered."

Coming this month: First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors

New York Times bestselling author Lee Child has teamed up with the International Thriller Writers for First Thrills, a showcase of many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre.

First Thrills includes never-before-published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, Heather Graham, Gregg Hurwitz, John Lescroart, John Lutz (with Lise E. Baker), Alex Kava (with Deb Carlin), Michael Palmer (with Daniel James Palmer), Karin Slaughter, and Wendi Corsi Staub.

The collection also serves as an introduction to those ITW has christened its rising stars, including Sean Michael Bailey, Ken Bruen, Ryan Brown, Bill Cameron, Rebecca Cantrell, Karen Dionne, JT Ellison, Theo Gangi, Rip Gerber, CJ Lyons, Grant McKenzie, Marc Paoletti, Cynthia Robinson, and Kelli Stanley.    Available June 22

Coming soon: Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads

A new ITW publication coming soon from Oceanview, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner, features 100 works--from Beowulf to The Bourne Identity, Dracula to Deliverance, Heart of Darkness to The Hunt for Red October--deemed must-reads by the International Thriller Writers organization.

Much more than an anthology, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads goes deep inside the most notable thrillers published over the centuries. Through lively, spirited, and thoughtful essays that examine each work's significance, impact, and influence, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads provides both historical and personal perspective on those spellbinding works that have kept readers on the edge of their seats for centuries.

Read the interview this month with James O. Born, as well as previous interviews with Gayle Lynds, Tess Gerritsen and Douglas Preston, then watch this space for more details!