tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27081803417863190432024-03-18T15:43:19.642-05:00The Page 69 TestUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4025125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-82654193355625498032024-03-16T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-16T00:05:00.127-05:00"The Swan's Nest"Laura Rhoton McNeal holds an MA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and has worked as a freelance journalist, a crime writer, and a high school English teacher. She is the author of the novels Dark Water, a finalist for the National Book Award, The Practice House, and The Incident on the Bridge. She and her husband, Tom, are the authors of Crooked, Zipped, Crushed, and The Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-83204020258351021952024-03-14T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-14T00:05:00.131-05:00"The Scream of Sins"Chris Nickson is the author of eleven Tom Harper mysteries, eight highly acclaimed novels in the Richard Nottingham series, and six Simon Westow mysteries. He is also a well-known music journalist. He lives in his beloved Leeds.
Nickson applied the Page 69 Test to The Scream of Sins, the newest Simon Westow mystery, and reported the following:
A part of page 69 of The Scream of Sins:
‘We’ve Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-37838855176983384712024-03-12T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-12T00:05:00.126-05:00"The Romanov Brides"Clare McHugh is the author of two historical novels, A Most English Princess and The Romanov Brides. After graduating from Harvard College with a degree in European history, she worked for many years as a newspaper reporter and later magazine editor. The mother of two grown children, she currently lives with her husband in London and in Amagansett, New York.
McHugh applied the Page 69 Test to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-56595582390528553682024-03-10T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-10T00:05:00.128-06:00"Fruit of the Dead"Rachel Lyon is author of the novels Self-Portrait with Boy—a finalist for the Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize—and Fruit of the Dead. Lyon's short work has appeared in One Story, The Rumpus, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. She has taught creative writing at various institutions, most recently Bennington College, and lives with her husband and two young Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-32089937643561203212024-03-08T12:05:00.001-06:002024-03-08T12:05:00.125-06:00"Sisters of Belfast"Melanie Maure holds a Master’s in Counselling Psychology and lives in central British Columbia. She is second generation Irish and spends a great deal of time in Ireland, which is an enduring source of inspiration for her work.
Maure applied the Page 69 Test to Sisters of Belfast, her debut novel, and reported the following:
From page 69:
“Fresh air,” she says, “the best medicine.” She slips Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-5284743454712033192024-03-07T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-07T00:05:00.134-06:00"The Devil and Mrs. Davenport"Paulette Kennedy is the bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil, which received the prestigious HNS Review Editor’s Choice Award. She has had a lifelong obsession with the gothic. As a young girl, she spent her summers among the gravestones in her neighborhood cemetery, imagining all sorts of romantic stories for the people buried there. After her mother introduced Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-44782663130163797602024-03-05T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-05T00:05:00.131-06:00"Murder at la Villette"Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 21 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. Black has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal, which is Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-81648859375037188802024-03-03T12:05:00.001-06:002024-03-03T12:05:00.136-06:00"Knife Skills"Wendy Church is the author of the Jesse O’Hara and Shadows of Chicago Mysteries series. The first book in the Jesse O’Hara series, Murder on the Spanish Seas, was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten Debut Mystery/Thriller novels of 2023, and received a starred review.
Church's newest books are Murder Beyond the Pale, the second Jesse O’Hara mystery, and Knife Skills, the first Shadows of Chicago Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-79119110607975725972024-03-02T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-02T00:05:00.135-06:00"The Haunting of Velkwood"Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row, The Invention of Ghosts, and Boneset & Feathers. She's a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Premios Kelvin and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-61194374847256469362024-02-29T13:05:00.001-06:002024-02-29T13:05:00.238-06:00"Where They Lie"Claire Coughlan has worked as a journalist for many years, most recently for publications such as BookBrunch and the Sunday Independent. She was a recipient of the Words Ireland National Mentoring program, funded by Kildare Arts Service and the Arts Council. Coughlan has an MFA in creative writing from University College Dublin, and she lives in County Kildare with her husband and daughter.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-61937399337144968052024-02-28T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-28T00:05:00.125-06:00"At Any Cost"Jeffrey Siger is an American living on the Aegean Greek island of Mykonos. A former Wall Street lawyer, he gave up his career as a name partner in his own New York City law firm to write the international best-selling, award recognized Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis series of mystery thrillers telling more than just a fast-paced story. The New York Times described his novels as “thoughtful policeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-19920873781298515862024-02-26T14:05:00.001-06:002024-02-26T14:05:00.266-06:00"We Are Only Ghosts"Originally from Oklahoma, Jeffrey L. Richards is the author of the 2015 novel, The Summer of Jenny Wade. He has lived in the New York City area for two decades.
As a playwright, his play “Stillwater” presented at the Venus/Adonis Theater Festival in New York City in 2016.
Richards applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, We Are Only Ghosts, and reported the following:
From page 69:
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-74511877033981214242024-02-25T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-25T00:05:00.123-06:00"Murder Beyond the Pale"Wendy Church is the author of the Jesse O’Hara and Shadows of Chicago Mysteries series. The first book in the Jesse O’Hara series, Murder on the Spanish Seas, was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten Debut Mystery/Thriller novels of 2023, and received a starred review.
Church applied the Page 69 Test to Murder Beyond the Pale, the second Jesse O’Hara mystery, and reported the following:
On page 69 Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-9838131482707711872024-02-23T00:05:00.002-06:002024-02-25T20:57:30.380-06:00"Mrs. Gulliver"Valerie Martin is the author of twelve novels, including Trespass, Mary Reilly, Italian Fever, and Property, four collections of short fiction, and a biography of St. Francis of Assisi. She has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her novel Mary Reilly was awarded the Kafka prize, shortlisted for the Prix Femina (France), and made Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-17200278023857142712024-02-21T08:05:00.001-06:002024-02-21T08:05:00.128-06:00"Village in the Dark"Iris Yamashita is an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter for the movie Letters from Iwo Jima. She has been working in Hollywood for fifteen years developing material for both film and streaming, has taught screenwriting at UCLA, and is an advocate of women and diversity in the entertainment industry. She has also been a judge and mentor for various film and writing programs, and lives in Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-91018496056910881222024-02-17T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-17T00:05:00.248-06:00"The Framed Women of Ardemore House"Brandy Schillace is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher. She is the creator of Peculiar Book Club, a twice-monthly live-streamed YouTube show. A former professor of English and gothic literature, she writes about gender politics and history, medical mystery, and neurodiversity for outlets such as Scientific American, Wired, CrimeReads, and Medium. She Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-51302617874307885852024-02-15T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-15T00:05:00.130-06:00"The Blue Window"Suzanne Berne is the author of the novels The Dogs of Littlefield, The Ghost at the Table, A Perfect Arrangement, and A Crime in the Neighborhood, winner of Great Britain’s Orange Prize.
She applied the Page 69 Test to her latest novel, The Blue Window, and reported the following:
Page 69 falls on the first page of Chapter 11:
Marika refused to visit the urgent care clinic. It would take too Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-13789586649727370432024-02-13T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-13T00:05:00.131-06:00"Leaving"Roxana Robinson is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices.
Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, The Southampton Review, Ep!phany and elsewhere. Her work has been Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-52225570260233653892024-02-11T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-11T00:05:00.125-06:00"Play of Shadows"Barbara Nickless is the Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author of At First Light and Dark of Night in the Dr. Evan Wilding series as well as the Sydney Rose Parnell series, which includes Blood on the Tracks, a Suspense Magazine Best of 2016 selection and winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence; Dead Stop, winner of the Colorado Book Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-48519285819777250682024-02-09T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-09T00:05:00.139-06:00"Hurt for Me"Heather Levy is a born and bred Oklahoman and graduate of Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth MFA program for creative writing. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and publications, including CrimeReads and NAILED Magazine. The New York Times called her Anthony-nominated debut, Walking through Needles, “a spellbinding novel at the nexus of power, desire, and abuse that portends a bright Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-31434724203528117812024-02-07T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-07T00:05:00.132-06:00"The Road from Belhaven"Margot Livesey was born and grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. She is the author of a collection of stories and nine other novels, including Eva Moves the Furniture, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, and The Boy in the Field. She has received awards from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is on the faculty of the Iowa Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-58744353358964518282024-02-05T10:05:00.001-06:002024-02-08T13:24:25.047-06:00"The Lost Dresses of Italy"M.A. McLaughlin is the award-winning author of a historical mystery trilogy: Claire's Last Secret, A Shadowed Fate, and Forever Past, all set around the Byron/Shelley circle in nineteenth-century Italy. Her novels have been published by Severn House (U.K. and U.S.) and Thomas Schluck (Germany), earning starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, as well as a gold medal for historical fiction in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-39692516635233872282024-02-03T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-03T00:05:00.132-06:00"Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife"Eric Schlich is the author of the story collection Quantum Convention, winner of the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Prize and the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award.
He applied the Page 69 Test to Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife, his debut novel, and reported the following:
Page 69 of Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife falls in Chapter Four: Creation Baptist. It’s set on Sunday at the Harpos’ Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-89735966059924566062024-02-01T08:05:00.001-06:002024-02-01T08:05:00.129-06:00"The Young of Other Animals"Chris Cander is the USA Today bestselling author of A Gracious Neighbor, The Weight of a Piano, which was named an Indie Next Great Read in both hardcover and paperback and which the New York Times called, “immense, intense and imaginative,” Whisper Hollow, also named an Indie Next Great Read, and 11 Stories, named by Kirkus as one of the best books of 2013 and winner of the Independent PublisherUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708180341786319043.post-55640094710944886332024-01-28T11:05:00.001-06:002024-01-28T11:05:00.124-06:00"Belonging"Jill Fordyce was born and raised in Bakersfield, California. She received a degree in English from the University of Southern California and a law degree from Santa Clara University. While practicing law, she continued to study writing through the Stanford Continuing Education creative writing program.
Fordyce applied the Page 69 Test to Belonging, her debut novel, and reported the following:
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