The Page 69 Test

Daniel Kalla is the international bestselling author of Pandemic , Resistance , Rage Therapy , and Blood Lies . He works as an emergency-ro...

Tom Rob Smith is the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel, Child 44 . He applied the Page 69 Test to his new book and reported the f...

Dan Elish is the author of the novels Nine Wives and The Misadventures of Justin Hearnfeld , as well as several books for young adults an...

Michael Allen Dymmoch has served as President and Secretary of the Midwest Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and as newsletter editor...

Sally Gunning 's latest novel is Bound . She applied the Page 69 Test to the new book and reported the following: A reader coming upon...

Sandra Ruttan is the author of Suspicious Circumstances . She is also an editor with Spinetingler Magazine . Her writing has appeared in Pu...

Marisa Silver is the author of Babe in Paradise , a collection of stories that was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times ...

Aravind Adiga was born in India and raised partly in Australia. He attended Columbia and Oxford universities. A former correspondent for Tim...

Elisa Albert is the author of the novel, The Book of Dahlia , and the short story collection, How This Night is Different . She applied the...

Joseph Olshan is an award-winning American writer. His first novel, Clara's Heart , won the Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writers' Comp...

Jennifer Cody Epstein has written for Self , the Wall Street Journal , and the Chicago Tribune . She has published short fiction in sever...

Jenny Gardiner 's work has appeared in Ladies Home Journal , the Washington Post , and on NPR’s Day to Day . She applied the Page 69 Te...