Chantel Acevedo (
www.chantelacevedo.com), fiction writer. LOVE & GHOST LETTERS (St. Martin's Press).
Dr. Marilyn Agin, Lisa Geng, Malcolm Nicholl, nonfiction writers. THE LATE TALKER:
What to Do If Your Child Isn’t Talking Yet (Picador/St. Martins).
Dianne Arcangel, nonfiction writer. LIFE AFTER LOSS:
The Transformative Power of Grief, with Raymond Moody (HarperCollins).
Julianna Baggott (
www.juliannabaggott.com), fiction writer. GIRL TALK; THE MISS AMERICA FAMILY; THE MADAM (Pocket); THE ANYBODIES; THE NOBODIES; THE SOMEBODIES; THE SLIPPERY MAP (Harper Childrens); WHICH BRINGS ME TO YOU with Steve Almond (Algonquin); MY HUSBAND'S SWEETHEARTS (Bantam)[August 2008]; THE GREAT VOOTERY BOOK: ONE OF THE WONDER LEGENDS (Delacorte)[forthcoming].
James Carlos Blake, fiction writer. HANDSOME HARRY; THE KILLINGS OF STANLEY KETCHEL (Harper Collins).
Jana Bommersbach, nonfiction writer. BONES IN THE DESERT (St. Martin’s)[forthcoming].
Adam Braver (
www.adambraver.com), fiction writer. MR. LINCOLN'S WARS, story collection (Harper Collins). DIVINE SARAH; NOVEMBER 22, 1963 (Tin House Books) [November 2008].
Eddie Bunker, fiction writer and memoirist. EDUCATION OF A FELON (St. Martin’s); STARK (St. Martin's); DEATH ROW BREAKOUT AND OTHER STORIES [forthcoming].
Cris Caivano, nonfiction writer. STRENGTH TRAINING FOR THE OVER 50'S (Barron's).
Leonard Chang (
www.leonardchang.com), novelist. OVER THE SHOULDER (Ecco Press); UNDERKILL; FADE TO CLEAR (St. Martin's).
Francis Clark, novelist. WAKING BRIGID (Tor Books); BRIGID REBORN [forthcoming].
Quinn Dalton, fiction writer. HIGH STRUNG; BULLET-PROOF GIRL, story collection (Atria).
Tim Dorsey (
www.timdorsey.com), novelist. TORPEDO JUICE; THE BIG BAMBOO; HURRICANE PUNCH; ATOMIC LOBSTER (Morrow).
Robert Drury, nonfiction writer, with Tom Clavin. HALSEY'S TYPHOON; THE RESCUE OF FOX COMPANY (Atlantic Monthly Press)[forthcoming].
Courtney Eldridge, fiction writer. UNKEMPT, story collection; THE GENEROSITY OF WOMEN (Harcourt Brace)[Spring 2009].
James Ellroy, novelist. THE BLACK DAHLIA; L.A. CONFIDENTIAL; THE COLD SIX THOUSAND, etc., BLOOD’S A ROVER (Knopf) [forthcoming].
T.J. English. nonfiction writer. PADDY WHACKED; HAVANA NOCTURNE:
How the Mob Owned Cuba – And Then Lost It to the Revolution (William Morrow)[Spring 2008].
Beth Ann Fennelly, poet and nonfiction writer. GREAT WITH CHILD:
Letters to a Young Mother; UNMENTIONABLES (Norton)[forthcoming].
Anne Finger, nonfiction writer. ELEGY FOR A DISEASE (St. Martin's).
Connie Fletcher, nonfiction writer. EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE:
Crimes Scene Investigators Talk About How They Find, Follow, and Preserve the Evidence Trail (St. Martin's).
Tom Franklin, fiction writer. POACHERS, short story collection; HELL AT THE BREECH (Morrow); SMONK (Morrow).
Mindy Friddle (
www.mindyfriddle.com), fiction writer. THE GARDEN ANGEL (St. Martin’s/Picador); SECRET KEEPERS (St. Martin's Press)[forthcoming].
James Grady, fiction writer. MAD DOGS (Forge).
Barry Green (
www.innergameofmusic.com), nonfiction writer. INNER GAME OF MUSIC (with W. Timothy Gallwey)(Doubleday); THE MASTERY OF MUSIC (Broadway).
Robert O. Greer, novelist. LIMITED TIME; HEAT SHOCK (Mysterious Press); RESURRECTING LANGSTON BLUE; THE MONGOOSE DECPTION; BLACKBIRD, FAREWELL [Fall 2008] (Frog Ltd.).
Jane Guill (
www.janeguill.com), fiction writer. NECTAR FROM A STONE (Simon & Schuster).
Aaron Gwyn, fiction writer. DOG ON THE CROSS, short story collection (Algonquin); THE WORLD BENEATH(Norton) [Spring 2009].
Al Habegger, biographer. MY WARS ARE LAID AWAY IN BOOKS:
The Life of Emily Dickinson (Random House); ANNA:
The Life and Legend of Mrs. Leonowens (Random House)[forthcoming].
Tom Hager (
www.thomashager.net), nonfiction writer. THE DEMON UNDER THE MICROSCOPE:
From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the First Miracle Drug; NITROGEN THE ALCHEMY OF AIR(Crown) [forthcoming].
Harry Harrison (
www.harryharrison.com), science fiction writer. STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER,Trilogy
(Del Rey); MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM!; STAINLESS STEEL OMNIBUS; FIFTY IN FIFTY (Tor).
C.J. Hribal, novelist. THE COMPANY CAR (Random House).
Marc Jaffe, anthologist. BEST STORIES OF THE AMERICAN WEST, anthology (Tor).
Robert Jordan (
www.tor.com/jordan), bestselling fantasy novelist. WHEEL OF TIME series (Tor); A MEMORY OF LIGHT (posthumously published)[Spring 2009].
Thomas Kelly, novelist. PAYBACK; THE RACKETS (Knopf); EMPIRE RISING (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Elmer Kelton (
www.elmerkelton.net), America's leading Western novelist. THE WAY OF THE COYOTE; SONS OF TEXAS; SANDHILLS BOY (memoir); MANY A RIVER; TEXAS RANGERS No. 8 (Forge) [forthcoming].
Eugenia Kim, fiction writer. NAJIN (Henry Holt)[April 2009].
Helen Knode, novelist. THE TICKET OUT + sequel (Harcourt Brace).
Anthony Lee, thriller writer. THE FIX (Morrow).
Robert Cooley with Hillel Levin, nonfiction writer. WHEN CORRUPTION WAS KING (Carroll&Graf).
Deborah Martinson, nonfiction writer. LILLIAN HELLMAN:
A Life With Foxes & Scoundrels (Counterpoint).
Lou Manfredo, fiction writer. RIZZO'S WAR and two untitled novels (St. Martin's/Minotaur) [Fall 2009].
Fred Moody, nonfiction writer. SEATTLE AND THE DEMONS OF AMBITION (St. Martin’s Press).
Raymond Moody, M.D. (
www.lifeafterlife.com) psychiatrist. LIFE AFTER LIFE; REUNIONS, with Paul Perry (Villard). LIFE AFTER LOSS, with Dianne Arcangel (HarperCollins); PARANORMAL:
A Memoir of My Life Studying Death [forthcoming].
Robert Morris, M.D., PhD., nonfiction writer. THE BLUE DEATH:
The Science and Mystery of Waterborne Killers (Harper Collins).
Melvin Morse, M.D. (
www.melvinmorse.com) with Paul Perry, nonfiction writer. CLOSER TO THE LIGHT; TRANSFORMED BY THE LIGHT:
Further Inquiry Into the Meaning of Near Death Experiences; FINDING THE LIGHT; WHERE GOD LIVES (HarperCollins).
James L. Nelson (
www.jameslnelson.com), fiction and nonfiction writer. THE GUARDSHIP; THE BLACKBIRDER; GLORY IN THE NAME, REIGN OF IRON; THIEVES OF MERCY (Morrow/Harper); BENEDICT ARNOLD'S NAVY; GEORGE WASHINGTON'S NAVY (McGraw Hill)[May 2008].
Jack O'Connell, novelist. BOX NINE, first prize winner of The Mysterious Discovery Contest (Mysterious Press); WORD MADE FLESH (HarperCollins); THE RESURRECTIONIST (Algonquin)[Spring 2008]; ALL YOU URCHINS (Algonquin)[forthcoming].
Robert Passikoff, nonfiction writer. PREDICTING BRAND SUCCESS (Wiley).
Otto Penzler, anthologist. BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES (Houghton Mifflin); BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING with Thomas H. Cook (Ecco); DANGEROUS WOMEN (Warner); THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF PULPS(Vintage); UNCERTAIN ENDINGS; VICIOUS CIRCLE (Pegasus); DEAD MAN’S HAND (Harcourt); MYSTERIOUS PROFILES (Little, Brown)[forthcoming].
Paul Perry, nonfiction writer. WHERE GOD LIVES, with Dr. Melvin Morse (HarperCollins); JESUS IN EGYPT(Ballantine); THE FEMALE STRESS CURE, with Dr. Vern Cherewatenko (HarperCollins); SAVED BY THE LIGHT with Dannion Brinkley (HarperCollins)[forthcoming].
Sam Pickering, essayist. LETTERS TO A TEACHER (Grove/Atlantic).
Imad Rahman, fiction writer. I DREAM OF MICROWAVES, short story collection (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Nicholas Rinaldi, novelist. THE JUKEBOX QUEEN OF MALTA (Simon & Schuster); BETWEEN TWO RIVERS (HarperCollins).
Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. STRAIGHT MAN; NOBODYS FOOL (Random House). EMPIRE FALLS; THE WHORE'S CHILD; BRIDGE OF SIGHS (Knopf).
Barry Silesky, poet, biographer. FERLINGHETTI (Warner); FLAT OUT:
A biography of John Gardner (Algonquin).
Michael Simon, (
www.michaelsimon.info), thriller writer. DIRTY SALLY; BODY SCISSORS; LITTLE FAITH; THE LAST JEW STANDING (Viking).
Steve Stark, nonfiction writer. MEET THE BEATLES:
A Cultural History of the Band that Shook the World (Harper Collins).
Ralph Steadman (
www.ralphsteadman.com), artist. THE CURSE OF LONO, with Hunter S. Thompson (Taschen); SIGMUND FREUD (Firefly). THE GRAPES OF RALPH; GONZO THE ART; UNTRODDEN GRAPES; THE JOKE’S OVER:
Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson (Harcourt).
Jacqueline B. Stordy, Ph.D. & Malcolm J. Nicholl. THE LCP SOLUTION:
The Remarkable Nutritional Treatment for ADHD, Dyslexia & Dyspraxia (Ballantine).
Ginger Strand, fiction writer. FLIGHT; NIAGARA (Simon & Schuster)[May 2008].
F. X. Toole (
www.fxtoole.com), fiction writer. ROPE BURNS, short story collection adapted into the film,
Million Dollar Baby; POUND FOR POUND (Ecco/HarperCollins).
Catherine Tudish, fiction writer. TENNEY'S LANDING, short story collection; AMERICAN CREAM, novel (Scribner).
Joseph Wambaugh, novelist. HOLLYWOOD STATION; HOLLYWOOD CROWS (Little, Brown/Warner)[Spring ’08]; THE BLUE KNIGHT, THE NEW CENTURIONS (Grand Central Publishing); THE ONION FIELD, THE CHOIRBOYS (Bantam).
Clint Van Winkle, Iraq war veteran and essayist. SOFT SPOTS (St. Martin’s) [forthcoming].
Michael White, novelist. SOUL CATCHER (William Morrow); THE BEAUTIFUL ASSASSIN (William Morrow)[forthcoming].