Chantel Acevedo (www.chantelacevedo.com), fiction writer. LOVE & GHOST LETTERS (St. Martin's Press).

Dr. Marilyn Agin (www.cherab.org), Lisa Geng, Malcolm Nicholl, nonfiction writers. THE LATE TALKER: What to Do If Your Child Isn’t Talking Yet (Picador/St. Martin’s).

Dianne Arcangel (www.arcangel.org), nonfiction writer. LIFE AFTER LOSS: The Transformative Power of Grief, with Raymond Moody (HarperCollins).

Julianna Baggott (www.juliannabaggott.com), fiction writer. THE ANYBODIES; THE NOBODIES; THE SOMEBODIES; THE SLIPPERY MAP; THE PRINCE OF FENWAY PARK (Harper Childrens); THE EVER BREATH (Delacorte); WHICH BRINGS ME TO YOU with Steve Almond (Algonquin); MY HUSBAND'S SWEETHEARTS; THE PRETEND WIFE; THE PROVENCE CURE FOR THE BROKEN-HEARTED (Bantam)[Aug. 2010].

James Carlos Blake (www.harpercollins.com/authors/15763/James_Carlos_Blake/index.aspx), fiction writer. HANDSOME HARRY; THE KILLINGS OF STANLEY KETCHEL (HarperCollins).

Jana Bommersbach (www.janabommersbach.com), nonfiction writer. BONES IN THE DESERT (St. Martin’s).

Adam Braver (www.adambraver.com), fiction writer. MR. LINCOLN'S WARS, story collection (HarperCollins); NOVEMBER 22, 1963 (Tin House Books).

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).

Quinn Dalton, fiction writer. HIGH STRUNG; BULLET-PROOF GIRL, story collection (Atria).

Hilary Davidson (www.hilarydavidson.com), fiction writer. THE DAMAGE DONE (Forge)[Fall 2010] + untitled sequel [forthcoming].

Tim Dorsey (www.timdorsey.com), fiction writer. TORPEDO JUICE; THE BIG BAMBOO; HURRICANE PUNCH; ATOMIC LOBSTER; NUCLEAR JELLYFISH; GATOR A-GO-GO [Feb. 2010; and untitled novel (William Morrow)[forthcoming].

Robert Drury, nonfiction writer, with Tom Clavin. HALSEY'S TYPHOON; THE LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY (Atlantic Monthly Press); LAST MEN OUT (Simon & Schuster)[Jan. 2010].

James Ellroy (www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/ellroy/), fiction and nonfiction writer. THE BLACK DAHLIA; L.A. CONFIDENTIAL; MY DARK PLACES; THE COLD SIX THOUSAND, etc., BLOOD’S A ROVER; THE HILLIKER CURSE (Knopf)[Fall 2010].

T.J. English (www.tj-english.com), nonfiction writer. PADDY WHACKED; HAVANA NOCTURNE: How the Mob Owned Cuba – And Then Lost It to the Revolution (William Morrow); SAVAGE CITY: Three Lives on the Edge (William Morrow)[forthcoming].

Beth Ann Fennelly (books.wwnorton.com/books/author.aspx?id=7833), poet and nonfiction writer. GREAT WITH CHILD: Letters to a Young Mother; UNMENTIONABLES (Norton).

Connie Fletcher (us.macmillan.com/author/conniefletcher), 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 (www.harpercollins.com/authors/19243/Tom_Franklin/index.aspx), fiction writer. POACHERS, short story collection; HELL AT THE BREECH (Morrow); SMONK (Morrow); CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER (William Morrow) [Summer 2010].

Mindy Friddle (www.mindyfriddle.com), fiction writer. THE GARDEN ANGEL (St. Martin’s/Picador); SECRET KEEPERS (St. Martin's Press).

Alan Glenn, fiction writer. AMERIKAN EAGLE (Bantam)[Summer 2010].

James Grady (www.jamesgrady.net), 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 (www.robertgreerbooks.com), fiction writer. LIMITED TIME; HEAT SHOCK (Mysterious Press); RESURRECTING LANGSTON BLUE; THE MONGOOSE DECPTION; BLACKBIRD, FAREWELL (Frog Ltd.).

Charles Goyette (www.charlesgoyette.com), nonfiction writer. THE DOLLAR MELTDOWN (Portfolio/Penguin)[Nov. 2009].

Jane Guill (www.janeguill.com), fiction writer. NECTAR FROM A STONE (Simon & Schuster).

Aaron Gwyn (www.aarongwyn.com), fiction writer. DOG ON THE CROSS, short story collection (Algonquin); THE WORLD BENEATH(Norton).

Al Habegger, biographer. MY WARS ARE LAID AWAY IN BOOKS: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Random House); MAGNIFICIENT FRAUD: The Life of Anna Leonowens, Teacher at the Siamese Court (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; THE ALCHEMY OF AIR(Crown).

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); STAINLESS STEEL RAT RETURNS (Tor)[Summer 2010].

Robert Jordan (us.macmillan.com/author/robertjordan), bestselling fantasy novelist. WHEEL OF TIME series (Tor) and Brandon Sanderson, THE GATHERING STORM [Nov. 2009]; SHIFTING WINDS [Nov. 2010]; TARMON’GAIDON [Nov. 2011]; NEW SPRING graphic novel (TOR)[May 2010]; EYE OF THE WORLD graphic novel [forthcoming].

Thomas Kelly (us.macmillan.com/author/thomaskelly), fiction writer. PAYBACK; THE RACKETS (Knopf); EMPIRE RISING (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); SANDHOGS (Soft Skull Press).

Elmer Kelton (www.elmerkelton.net), America's leading Western novelist, recently deceased. THE WAY OF THE COYOTE; SONS OF TEXAS; SANDHILLS BOY (memoir); MANY A RIVER; HARD TRAIL TO FOLLOW (Forge).

Thomas E. Kennedy (www.thomasekennedy.com), fiction writer. IN THE COMPANY OF ANGELS [March 2010]; EVERYONE IS AN ANGEL (Bloomsbury)[forthcoming].

Eugenia Kim (www.thecalligraphersdaughter.com), fiction writer. THE CALLIGRAPHER’S DAUGHTER (Henry Holt).

Helen Knode, fiction writer. THE TICKET OUT; THE WILDCAT PLAY (Houghton Mifflin)[forthcoming].

Hillel Levin, nonfiction writer. WHEN CORRUPTION WAS KING, with Robert Cooley (Carroll&Graf); IN WITH THE DEVIL: The Fallen Hero, the Serial Killer and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption, with James Keene (St. Martin’s) [Spring 2010].

Deborah Martinson, nonfiction writer. LILLIAN HELLMAN: A Life With Foxes & Scoundrels (Counterpoint).

Lou Manfredo (us.macmillan.com/rizzoswar), fiction writer. RIZZO'S WAR [Oct. 2009]; RIZZO’S FIRE, and one untitled novel (St. Martin's/Minotaur)[forthcoming].

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]; SOUL SURVIVORS: An Investigation of Shared Death Experiences and Survival of Bodily Death, with Paul Perry (Guideposts)[Fall 2010].

James L. Nelson (www.jameslnelson.com), fiction and nonfiction writer. BENEDICT ARNOLD'S NAVY; GEORGE WASHINGTON'S NAVY (McGraw Hill); THE FIRE AND THE SWORD: The Battle of Bunker Hill (St. Martins) [forthcoming]; THE BATTLE OF THE CAPES (McGraw Hill)[forthcoming].

Stuart Neville (www.stuartneville.com), fiction writer. THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST; COLLUSION (Soho Press)[forthcoming].

Peter Orullian (www.orullian.com), fantasy fiction writer. TAHN AND THE LEDGE OF RESTORATION [Spring 2011], plus two more books in THE VAULT OF HEAVEN series (Tor)[forthcoming].

Otto Penzler (www.mysteriousbookshop.com), anthologist. BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES (Houghton Mifflin); BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING with Thomas H. Cook (Ecco); THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF PULPS(Vintage); DEAD MAN’S HAND (Harcourt); MYSTERIOUS PROFILES (Little, Brown); THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF BLACK MASK STORIES; THE VAMPIRE ARCHIVES, plus two more books in Jumbo series (Vintage)[ forthcoming]; AMERICAN NOIR (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)[forthcoming]; A MYSTEROUS BOOKSHOP CHRISTMAS (Vanguard)[Fall 2010]; AGENTS OF TREACHERY (Vintage)[forthcoming].

Paul Perry (www.paulperryproductions.com), 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); SOUL SURVIVORS: How Shared Death Experiences Provide a Glimpse Into Eternity, with Dr. Raymond Moody (Guideposts)[Fall 2010].

Imad Rahman, fiction writer. I DREAM OF MICROWAVES, short story collection (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Nicholas Rinaldi (www.harpercollins.com/authors/26839/Nicholas_Rinaldi/index.aspx), fiction writer. THE JUKEBOX QUEEN OF MALTA (Simon & Schuster); BETWEEN TWO RIVERS (HarperCollins).

Richard Russo (www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/russo/), Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer. STRAIGHT MAN; NOBODY’S FOOL (Random House). EMPIRE FALLS; THE WHORE'S CHILD; BRIDGE OF SIGHS; THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC (Knopf).

Michael Simon, (www.michaelsimon.info), thriller writer. DIRTY SALLY; BODY SCISSORS; LITTLE FAITH; THE LAST JEW STANDING (Viking).

Tatjana Soli, (www.tatjanasoli.com), fiction writer. THE LOTUS EATERS (St. Martin’s)[Spring 2010].

Steve Stark, nonfiction writer. MEET THE BEATLES: A Cultural History of the Band that Shook the World (HarperCollins).

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).

Terry Greene Sterling (www.terrygreenesterling.com, nonfiction writer. ILLEGAL: Life and Death in an Undocumented Underground (Lyons Press) [August 2010].

Jacqueline B. Stordy, Ph.D. & Malcolm J. Nicholl. THE LCP SOLUTION: The Remarkable Nutritional Treatment for ADHD, Dyslexia & Dyspraxia (Ballantine).

Ginger Strand (www.gingerstrand.com), fiction writer. FLIGHT; INVENTING NIAGARA (Simon & Schuster).

Jonathan Tel, fiction writer. THE BEIJING OF POSSIBILITIES (Other Press).

James Thompson (www.jimthompson.fi), fiction writer. SNOW ANGELS [Jan. 2010]; DEAD OF WINTER (Penguin Putnam).

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 (http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Catherine-Tudish/24147233), fiction writer. TENNEY'S LANDING, short story collection; AMERICAN CREAM, novel (Scribner).

Urban Waite, fiction writer. THE TERROR OF LIVING [forthcoming].

Joseph Wambaugh (www.josephwambaugh.net), fiction writer. HOLLYWOOD STATION; HOLLYWOOD CROWS (Little, Brown/Warner); HOLLYWOOD MOON (Little, Brown/Warner)[Nov. 2009]; THE BLUE KNIGHT, THE NEW CENTURIONS (Grand Central Publishing); THE ONION FIELD, THE CHOIRBOYS (Bantam).

Clint Van Winkle (http://us.macmillan.com/author/clintvanwinkle), Iraq war veteran and essayist. SOFT SPOTS (St. Martin’s).

Michael White (www.michaelcwhite.com), fiction writer. SOUL CATCHER; THE BEAUTIFUL ASSASSIN (William Morrow)[March 2010].