CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE

New York Times Bestselling novelist, screenwriter, editor, namer, critic, movie addict and chocoholic.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Mark Wisniewski talks about his brilliant new novel WATCH ME GO, and so much more

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With a stellar quote from Salman Rushdie himself, Watch Me Go, by Mark Wisniewski, is as tense as it is disturbing. His other wor...

Jane Hawley talks about The Suitcases of San Leon, how she writes, why it's great to live with another writer, and so much more

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Illustration by Michael Hirshon for Amazon’s Day One  Journal. Jane Hawley is a hoot. I met her through ...

Emma Hooper talks about Etta and Otto and Russell and James, and so much more

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Not only has Emma Hooper written a sparklingly original novel, but she is also a musician who performs as a solo artist in the ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Growing up in Soviet Russia, moving to the US, dealing with a Soviet mother, writing and so much more: Elena Gorokhova talks about her blazingly entertaining memoir, RUSSIAN TATTOO

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My grandparents were from Russia, something I am always very proud about, and I studied Russian for about 5 years, long enough t...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Reading with Robin is coming back! The extraordinary Robin Kall talks about author interviews, radio. breakfasts, teas, more--and has a book giveaway!

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  How can you not adore someone who loves and promotes books and authors as much as Robin Kall does? (And who also is the war...
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Monday, December 22, 2014

Tim Johnston talks about his amazing DESCENT, the surprise of writing a literary thriller, and so much more

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  Descent is the kind of novel where you hold your breath while you are reading. It's also the kind of novel where the sentenc...
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I talk to author Chris Jane about the effects of having a hit debut followed by 8 failures and then a NYT bestseller, what I won't write about, and much more

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Thanks to Chris Jane for interviewing me for her wonderful 5 ON series You post pictures around your writing area of people w...
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Stay tuned, WITH OR WITHOUT YOU, my 12th novel is coming August 4, 2020 from Algonquin. My 11th novel CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD is an Indie Next Pick. IS THIS TOMORROW was an May Indie Pick. I'm also the New York Times bestselling author of PICTURES OF YOU, a San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick, a Costco "Pennie's Pick." a NAIBA bestseller and on the Best Books of 2011 List from San Francisco Chronicle, Providence Journal, Kirkus Reviews and Bookmarks Magazine. I'm the recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction. I was a 2013 finalist in the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and a finalist in the Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellowship, four of my novels were optioned for screen, and I talked my way into writing the script for two of them. My essay, HIgh Infidelity, has been optioned for film. I'm a book critic for The San Francisco Chronicle and People Magazine. I teach novel writing for UCLA Extension Writers' Program, and Stanford online, do private fiction editing, and I am a professional namer! I live with my husband, writer/editor Jeff Tamarkin and we beam with pride about our son, an actor/filmmaker in college. Visit me at http://www.carolineleavitt.com.
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