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Finding an Opal, as in a copy of Kaayva Viswanathan's book, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life," just got har...

Title: Reaper Man (Discworld bk. 11) Author: Terry Pratchett Length: ~300 pages Genre: fantasy Plot Basics: Life and death on the Discw...

A new fracas is brewing in the publishing world. In one corner is Kaayva Viswanathan, the Harvard University sophomore who landed a six-figu...

Say hello to this week's author providing some answers, Clyde Edgerton. Edgerton hails from North Carolina. Reviewers, critics and other...

Word Nerd's got an entry up in Jason Evans' flash fiction contest on his blog, Clarity of Night. Evans posted a contest -- nothing l...

Title: To The Nines Author: Janet Evanovich Length: 352 page Genre: mystery/chick lit Plot Basics: After a slump with book 8, Evanovich...

Title: Edenborn Author: Nick Sagan Length: 311 pages Genre: sci-fi Plot Basics: Welcome to Humanity 2.0 as the characters from "Id...

Title: Murder in the Bastille Author: Cara Black Length: 276 pages Genre: mystery Plot Basics: Parisienne computer programmer and detec...

Welcome to Author Answers, this week with Sarah Strohmeyer . Strohmeyer is the author of Bubbles Unbound, Bubbles in Trouble, Bubbles Ablaze...

You may recall a few weeks ago, Word Nerd was asking for suggestions for what to take with her as reading material on an airplane for an upc...

Title: Drowned Hopes (A Dortmunder novel) Author: Donald E. Westlake Length: ~4oo pages Genre: comic crime Plot Basics: An old cellmate...

It's hard to write a story without people talking. I'm sure there are authors out there who have done it, and quite successfully, bu...

In her author answers yesterday, Rachel Caine mentioned that she writes better if she's got great tunes coming through her headphones. C...

It's time for another installment of Author Answers (cue chamber music and the guy with the smoking jacket in the wing chair... oh wait....

Title: Idlewild Author: Nick Sagan Length: 275 pages Genre: sci-fi Plot Basics: There's not really a way to do this part without ru...

Title: Dating Dead Men Author: Harley Jane Kozak Length: 323 pages Genre: mystery/chick lit Plot Basics: Greeting card shop owner and a...

Word Nerd has realized that her reading habits are changing. Change is good, right? Word Nerd knew her habits and her preferred genre(s) wer...

Title: The Brief History of the Dead Author : Kevin Brockmeier Length: 252 pages Genre: literary fiction Plot Basics: What if the dead d...

It's time for another Q&A with an author. This week, it's Anne Frasier. Frasier is the author of Hush, Sleep Tight, Play Dead, ...

Here's the reading tally for March 2006. Word Nerd read 7 books for the grand total of 2,538 pages or almost 82 pages/day. The books r...