Writing ‘eases stress of cancer’

from the BBC Encouraging cancer patients to write down their deepest fears about the disease may improve their quality of life, according to a US study. Nancy Morgan, a “writing clinician”, approached patients waiting in a clinic at a cancer centre in...

New York Times Fiction Bestsellers March 30, 2008

from the New York Times March 30, 2008 Hardcover Fiction This Week   Last Week Weeks On List 1 CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles. 1 2 2 THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political...

A Million Penguins, v2.0

snipped from news.com We Tell Stories is a new alternate-reality game that tasks players with finding their way through six story lines based on classic Penguin novels and a seventh story that ties them all together. The alternate-reality game genre has a new friend,...

International Thriller Writers 2008 Award Finalists

click to visit the International Thriller Writers website Finalists for the 2008 Thriller Awards! By Joe Moore | Permalink Drum roll please! After much arduous and painstaking labor by our three panels of esteemed judges–overseen and orchestrated by this...

New Titles Out Next Week

snipped from Shelf-Awareness Selected hardcover titles appearing next Tuesday, March 25: Buckingham Palace Gardens: A Novel by Anne Perry (Ballantine, $26) is the 25th Thomas Pitt mystery. Hollywood Crows: A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh (Little, Brown, $26.99) examines...

Mystery Bestsellers for February

snipped from IMBA, noted by Shelf-Awareness The INDEPENDENT MYSTERY BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION (IMBA) Connecting Criminally Inclined Readers with Arresting Mysteries The following were the bestselling titles at member bookstores of the Independent Mystery Booksellers...