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Mark Coggins is the award-winning author of The Immortal Game, Vulture Capital, Candy from Strangers, and Runoff. The San Francisco Chronicle has labeled his work, "smart, stylish, sexy" and called his PI August Riordan "enjoyably jaded ... delicious."Coggins applied the Page 69 Test to The Big Wake-Up, his new August Riordan novel, and reported the following:The Big Wake-Up envisions an altered

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Joel Shepherd was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1974. He has studied Film and Television, International Relations, has interned on Capitol Hill in Washington, and traveled widely in Asia. His first trilogy, the Cassandra Kresnov Series, consists of Crossover, Breakaway and Killswitch.He applied the Page 69 Test to Sasha, the first book in the A Trial of Blood and Steel series, and

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Roy Cheney has worked as a military journalist, photographer, newspaper editor, and as an investigator for the federal government.He applied the Page 69 Test to The Ragged End of Nowhere, his debut novel, and reported the following: Page 69 of The Ragged End of Nowhere finds the protagonist, Bodo Hagen, sitting in a Las Vegas hotel room. It is morning. He picks up the phone and places a

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Tony Richards sold his first short story at the age of twenty-one, and hasn't stopped selling fiction since. He has written SF, mystery, and mainstream tales, as well as dark fantasy, and has appeared in most major magazines and anthologies in the genre. His work has been praised by the likes of Ed Gorman, Ramsey Campbell, Graham Joyce, and the late Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, and he has been

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Juliet Marillier's historical fantasy novels are published internationally and have won a number of awards.She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Heart’s Blood, and reported the following:On page 69 of Heart’s Blood our narrator, the young scribe Caitrin, is working in the disordered library of her new employer Anluan, chieftain of Whistling Tor. Anluan is an ill-tempered, socially

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Emily Arsenault has worked as a lexicographer, an English teacher, a children’s librarian, and a Peace Corps volunteer. She wrote The Broken Teaglass to pass the long, quiet evenings in her mud brick house while living in rural South Africa. She now lives in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, with her husband.She applied the Page 69 Test to The Broken Teaglass and reported the following:The Broken

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Alex Bledsoe grew up in west Tennessee an hour north of Graceland (home of Elvis) and twenty minutes from Nutbush (birthplace of Tina Turner). He's been a reporter, editor, photographer and door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. He now lives in a Wisconsin town famous for mustard and trolls.Bledsoe's first novel, The Sword-Edged Blonde, is now available in paperback from Tor Books. He applied the

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Eric Stone is the author of four Ray Sharp novels, including Living Room of the Dead, Grave Imports, and Flight of the Hornbill. Additionally, he wrote the non-fiction book Wrong Side of the Wall.He applied the Page 69 Test to Shanghaied, the latest book in the Ray Sharp series, and reported the following:On page 69, Ray Sharp is in a car with a Hong Kong cop who is a friend of his. The cop is

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Lauren Grodstein is the author of the collection The Best of Animals and a novel, Reproduction is the Flaw of Love, which was both a Breakout Book selection from Amazon.com and a Borders Original Voices pick. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, and French. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University.She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, A Friend of the Family, and

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James Magruder's stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Bloom, Subtropics, and the anthology Boy Crazy. His writing has been supported by the Maryland State Arts Council, the New Harmony Project, The MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Thornton Wilder Fellow, the Ucross Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Jerome Foundation. He

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Zoë Klein received ordination from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in 1998. She has written articles for numerous publications including Harper’s Bazaar, Tikkun, and Torat Hayim, and has written chapters in a number of collections including The Women’s Torah Commentary and Holy Ground: A Gathering of Voices on Caring for Creation. Rabbi Klein serves as the spiritual leader of

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Dave Zeltserman's first novel, Fast Lane, received widespread praise, with Ken Bruen calling it "the most entertaining debut since Jim Thompson." Zeltserman's second crime novel, Bad Thoughts, was published in 2007 and praised as a "compellingly clever wheels-within-wheels thriller" (Booklist). His Small Crimes made NPR's list of the top 5 crime and mystery novels of 2008; Maureen Corrigan called

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Therese Walsh is a cofounder of the blog WriterUnboxed.com. She lives in upstate New York, with her husband, two children, a cat, and a bouncy Jack Russell named Kismet.She applied the Page 69 Test to The Last Will of Moira Leahy, her first novel, and reported the following:Deep down, though she’d loathe admitting it—especially to herself—Maeve Leahy misses her old life. She misses her identical

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Don Bruns is a musician, songwriter, advertising executive, and award-winning novelist. His "Stuff" series includes Stuff to Die For and Stuff Dreams Are Made Of.He applied the Page 69 Test to the latest book in the series, Stuff to Spy For, and reported the following: I just read page 69, from Stuff to Spy For. It's a defining page. Skip and James (24 year old lifelong friends) are talking

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A board-certified trial lawyer, H. Terrell Griffin practiced law in Orlando for thirty-eight years. He is the author of Murder Key, Longboat Blues, Blood Island, and the newly released Wyatt’s Revenge.He applied the Page 69 Test to Wyatt’s Revenge and reported the following: Wyatt’s Revenge is the story of a good man, a retired trial lawyer named Matt Royal, who lives on an island off the

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Karen Maitland has spent much of her life traveling, spending her early childhood in the sunshine of Malta and later journeying to the ice and snow of the Arctic and Greenland.Her first novel, The White Room, a modern thriller about terrorism, is based on her experiences as a student in Belfast during "The Troubles." Her acclaimed Company of Liars was shortlisted for a Sue Feder Memorial Award

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Junius Podrug was selected by the Harold Robbins Estate to carry on the ideas, uncompleted works, and tradition of Harold Robbins because he was both a friend of Robbins' and a writer whose books Robbins admired. He is the author of Harold Robbins' The Betrayers and The Decievers.Podrug applied the Page 69 Test to their latest novel, The Shroud, and reported the following:Curator for a museum

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Derek Nikitas teaches creative writing at Eastern Kentucky University. Pyres, his first novel, was an Edgar nominee.He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, The Long Division, and reported the following:The Long Division is an ensemble piece with five protagonists. Their stories converge, as the climax approaches, in increasingly more gut-wrenching ways. There's the Atlanta housecleaner

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Donna VanLiere is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series and Angels of Morgan Hill.She applied the Page 69 Test to Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Again, and reported the following:Page 69 is the beginning of chapter five in Finding Grace so the words don’t even begin until more than halfway down, leaving only

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Writer/producer Charles Kipps has won an Emmy, a Peabody, and an Edgar Award.Kipps’ television credits include Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (NBC), Little Bill (Nickelodeon), Fatherhood (Nickelodeon), The Cosby Mysteries (NBC), Columbo (ABC), and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC). His film credits include Fat Albert, a feature film for Twentieth Century Fox co-written with Bill Cosby.He is the

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Donna VanLiere is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Finding Grace, The Christmas Hope series, and Angels of Morgan Hill.She applied the Page 69 Test to The Christmas Secret, her latest novel, and reported the following:The Christmas Secret has just been released and it’s the fifth novel in The Christmas Hope series. I write each of the novels to be stand-alone books so there

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Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of the novels The Four Temperaments, In Dahlia's Wake, and Breaking the Bank.She is also the editor of the essay collections The Barbie Chronicles: A Living Doll Turns Forty and All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader. Her short fiction, articles, and essays have been published in anthologies as well as in numerous national magazines, and

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Gina Buonaguro was born in New Jersey and now resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Janice Kirk was born and lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The authors of The Sidewalk Artist, they are now working on their third novel together.They applied the Page 69 Test to their new novel, Ciao Bella, and reported the following:Page 69 of Ciao Bella is actually quite representative of the novel as a whole.

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Nancy Mauro is a writer and has worked as a creative director at a Manhattan advertising agency. She has lived and worked in Toronto and in Vancouver where she was a fellow and graduate of the University of British Columbia's MFA program in creative writing. She is the recipient of several Ontario Art Council grants as well as Canadian Council grants for emerging writers. Her work has been

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Sophie Hannah is a bestselling crime fiction writer and poet. Her psychological thrillers include Little Face and Hurting Distance.She applied the Page 69 Test to The Wrong Mother (UK title: The Point of Rescue), and reported the following:It's amazing how representative of the novel p. 69 is! Here's the blurb of the book:Sally is watching the news

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