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‘Broken Promise,’ A Conversation with Linwood Barclay

August 6, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Linwood Barclay credit Bill Taylor (2)Linwood Barclay’s thrillers have been international bestsellers. Trust Your Eyes, an intriguing novel with a unique premise, has been optioned for film.  The Associated Press said, “Linwood Barclay has established himself alongside the masters of suburban fiction.”

In just-released Broken Promise, unemployed journalist David Harwood, grieving his wife’s untimely death, moves with his young son back to his parents’ home in Promise Falls, New York. One morning, David visits his cousin Marla, who has been acting strangely since having lost her baby during childbirth a year ago. Shockingly, David discovers Marla holding a 10 month-old baby boy who Marla says is her son. David begins investigating the child’s true identity; nothing is really as it seems, and Marla’s mysterious child is merely the tip of the iceberg.

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Filed Under: About Books, creativity, crime, Huffington Post Column, Interviews Tagged With: book signings, descriptions, hooks, journalism, procrastination, thrillers, twists

‘Brushback,’ A Conversation with Sara Paretsky

July 31, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Sara Paretsky Author Photo- Credit Steven E. GrossSara Paretsky is the award-winning author of the V. I. Warshawski detective novels. In 1982, when Sara wrote Indemnity Only, she revolutionized the mystery novel by creating a hard-boiled woman investigator.

Growing up in rural Kansas, Sara came to Chicago in 1966 to do community service work in the neighborhood where Martin Luther King was organizing. Sara felt that summer changed her life; and after finishing her undergraduate degree at the University of Kansas, she returned to make Chicago her home.

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“The Lovers’ Tango” Gets a Superb Review from The Providence Journal

July 19, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

I couldn’t ask for a better review from Rhode Island’s largest and most prestigious newspaper. TLT Providence Journal review

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‘The Fraud,’ A Conversation with Brad Parks

July 14, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

BradParksAuthorPhotoBrad Parks is the only author to have won crime fiction’s Shames, Nero, and Lefty Awards. As in his five previous novels, his protagonist, Carter Ross, is an investigative reporter for Newark’s Eagle-Examiner.

In The Fraud, a rash of carjackings is terrorizing Newark. When one theft results in the murder of a banking executive, Ross begins investigating the case. He soon learns that a Nigerian immigrant was also killed in another carjacking only days apart from the executive’s murder. Carter discovers the two victims knew each other, and finds himself on the trail of a deadly band of car thieves. Nothing is really as it seems as the stakes rise, threatening Carter’s life and that of his unborn child.

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Filed Under: About Books, creativity, crime, Huffington Post Column Tagged With: carjacking. newspaper reporting, creativity, crime, Newark, NJ

‘Bull Mountain,’ A Conversation with Brian Panowich

July 7, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Brian Panowich (c) David KernaghanBrian Panowich is a firefighter and former musician. As an army brat, he grew up in Europe until the family settled in East Georgia. His debut novel, Bull Mountain, has received extensive praise from James Ellroy, C.J. Box, Wiley Cash, John Connolly, among others.

Bull Mountain is set in the backwoods Georgia hills and spans the decades between the 1940s and today. This story of multigenerational crime and retribution is told from multiple points of view; and the acts of vengeance that have kept the Burroughs clan in complete control of the surrounding community are described in rich detail.

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Great Opening Lines

June 29, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”

—The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

 

“His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky. He had a long heavy beard, and his hair was hanging down over his ears to his neck, and he had his hand out trying to thumb a ride from a car that was stopped at the pump. To see him there, leaning on one hip, a Coke bottle in his hand and a rolled-up sleeping bag near his boots on the tar pavement, you could never have guessed that on Tuesday, a day later, most of the police in Basalt County would be hunting him down.”

—First Blood by David Morrell

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2014 Independent Publishers Association Gold Award

June 26, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

I just received the 2014 Gold Award Certificate for my novella, “Return to Sandara.” It’s often referred to as the IPPY Award. It won the Gold Award in the category of Suspense/Thriller Fiction.IPPY Award

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‘Killing Monica,’ A Conversation with Candace Bushnell

June 24, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Candace Bushnell at home in Roxbury, Conn. June 2010

Candace Bushnell at home in Roxbury, Conn. June 2010

Candace Bushnell is a novelist and television producer who from 1994-1996, wrote a column for The New York Observer which was adapted into the bestselling anthology, Sex and the City. It became the basis for the HBO hit series of the same name.

She followed up with the internationally bestselling novels, 4 Blondes, Trading Up, Lipstick Jungle, One Fifth Avenue, The Carrie Diaries, and Summer and the City. Her novels have been successfully adapted for television and films. Candace is the winner of the prestigious 2006 Matrix Award for books (other winners have included Joan Didion and Amy Tan), and received the Albert Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award.

In Killing Monica, Pandy “PJ” Wallis is a renowned writer whose novels about a young Manhattan woman, Monica, have generated a series of enormously popular films. After the success of the Monica books and movies, Pandy wants to write something entirely different: a historical novel based on her ancestor, Lady Wallis. But everyone wants Pandy to keep cranking out Monica books—as does her husband, Jonny, who’s gone deeply into debt financing his new Las Vegas restaurant.

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Filed Under: About Books, Huffington Post Column, Interviews Tagged With: discovering one's self, Eleanor Roosevelt, feminism, Hillary Clinton, literary-writing, Madonna, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, power

‘The Cartel’ A Conversation with Don Winslow

June 22, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Don Winslow_5718Don Winslow is known to thriller lovers everywhere, especially after his extraordinary novel, Savages, which was made into a film directed by Oliver Stone. Don grew up in Rhode Island, and at age seventeen, left to study journalism at the University of Nebraska, where he earned a degree in African Studies. While in college, he traveled to southern Africa, sparking a lifelong involvement with that continent. Later, he obtained a master’s degree in Military History.

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Tom Clancy “Under Fire” A Conversation with Grant Blackwood

June 15, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Grant Blackwood co-authored Dead or Alive with Tom Clancy, The Kill Switch with JGrant Blackwood-jpegames Rollins, and The Fargo Adventure Series with Clive Cussler. He’s also the author of the Briggs Tanner series, among other novels. A U. S. Navy veteran, Grant spent three years aboard a guided missile frigate as an Operations Specialist and a Pilot Rescue Swimmer.

Under Fire is Grant’s first solo Tom Clancy book in the Jack Ryan, Jr. series. Working alone for the first time on assignment for The Campus in Tehran, Jack shares lunch with an old friend, Seth Gregory, during which he’s given the key to Seth’s apartment, along with a cryptic message. Soon thereafter, Seth goes missing and Jack, doing his best to locate his friend, finds himself entangled in a web of espionage; global politics involving the CIA, Great Britain’s MI 6, Russian and Iranian intelligence; and a popular uprising in neighboring Dagestan.

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