The Page 69 Test

Jennifer Cody Epstein 's books include The Gods of Heavenly Punishment , winner of the 2014 Asian Pacific Association of Librarians Hon...

Ryan Chapman is a Sri Lankan-American writer originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has appeared online at The New Yorker , GQ , ...

Erica Bauermeister is the bestselling author of four novels including The School of Essential Ingredients , Joy for Beginners , The Lost Ar...

S. C. Megale is an author and filmmaker. She's been profiled in USA Today , The Washington Post , and New York Newsday , and has appear...

Erin Gough is a Sydney-based writer whose first young adult novel, The Flywheel , won Hardie Grant Egmont’s Ampersand Prize. The Flywheel ...

Jacqueline West is the author of the New York Times -bestselling middle grade series The Books of Elsewhere, the YA novel Dreamers Often Li...

Susannah Marren is the author of Between the Tides and A Palm Beach Wife and a pseudonym for Susan Shapiro Barash, who has written more t...

Mary Miller grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Big World , and Always Happy Hour , as ...

Leah Hager Cohen was born in Manhattan and raised at the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens and later in Nyack, New York. She attend...

Jessika Fleck is a writer, unapologetic coffee drinker, and knitter -- she sincerely hopes to one day discover a way to do all three at onc...

Susanna Calkins holds a PhD in history and currently works at Northwestern University. She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Mu...

Meghan Holloway found her first Nancy Drew mystery in a sun-dappled attic at the age of eight and subsequently fell in love with the grip...