March 21st saw The Cut’s publication of Maggie Bullock’s interview with bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and The Favorite Sister, Jessica Knoll. The interview is entitled “How to Be a Writer and Still Get Really, Really Rich,” and is part of a series called Get That Money, described by The Cut as ‘an exploration of the many ways we think about our finances — what we earn, what we have, and what we want. As part of the series, we’re interviewing women about how they feel about their bank balances.’ The interview features Knoll—whose first book Luckiest Girl Alive is being made …
It is not an easy thing—becoming a successful author. Rarely does it happen over night and for many, it doesn’t happen at all. It takes a lot to become a truly successful word weavers, but it can happen. The following authors are examples of that. Selling over 30 MILLION copies each, here are five of writers you need to read. 1. Scott Turow Lawyer-turned-author Scott Turow has written eleven novels in addition to three nonfiction books, which in total have been translated into over forty languages and sold more than 30 million copies. He is best known …
It is not an easy thing—becoming a successful author. Rarely does it happen over night and for many, it doesn’t happen at all. It takes a lot to become a truly successful word weavers, but it can happen. The following authors are examples of that. Selling over 30 MILLION copies each, here are five of writers you need to read. 1. Scott Turow Lawyer-turned-author Scott Turow has written eleven novels in addition to three nonfiction books, which in total have been translated into over forty languages and sold more than 30 million copies. He is best known …
It’s Thirsty Thursday, and Bookstr is bringing you Booze & Books, our newest weekly feature dedicated to drinking games and booze-book pairings. To give you a little preview, here’s a suggestion we can offer right now: any drink and any book. (Don’t worry; they’ll be more detailed than that. But you have to admit, it’s the perfect combo.) This week is our YA edition. That’s right, we’re going YA dystopia on your asses. Rules: Select your favorite YA dystopia novel— We’re thinking The Hunger Games, Divergent, you get it. Take a drink every time one of the following tropes occurs! …
AMC’s adaptation of Deborah Harkness’s bestselling All Souls trilogy premieres April 7th, and if the books are anything to go by, it’s going to be BIG. Not only due to their enormous popularity—the first in the series, A Discovery of Witches, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and more than thirty-seven foreign editions and translations of volumes from the trilogy have been published—but also due to their fascinating origins. Author Deborah Harkness did not start out life dreaming of fantasy writing. Quite the opposite. Harkness came to fiction through nonfiction; academic research, to be exact. A professor of history, she teaches …
