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Monday musing

What can a writer do about an entrenched problem?

Monday musings on systemic racism By Scott Bury Historical, systemic and persistent racism is the leading concern of the day. Black Lives Matter continues to make headlines and dominate conversations. Canada has been rocked over the past few weeks by revelations of a thousand unmarked graves at former Indian Residential […]

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Thursday teaser

Opening books and tales

Monday musings from bestselling authors May-hem month is almost over, so for our last Musing of the month, BestSelling Reads authors offer their thoughts about the best way to open a book. Should every book open with action of some kind? Even a kiss can be considered action. Alan McDermott […]

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Monday musing

BestSellers in progress: Part 2

Do you peek in the over as yummy treats are baking? Here’s a peek at some new bestsellers in preparation by your favorite bestselling authors. Monday Musings Fractured States of America By Scott Bury Leona smiled to a herself as she carried her lukewarm ersatz coffee mixed with non-dairy milk-like […]

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Thursday teaser

Mayhem for May

May is action month at BestSelling Reads. Here are some tastes of the action and mayhem you can find between the covers of some of members’ most rollicking titles. From Motive The bulldog looked at the old man pleadingly.  He got a nod in response.  “Make it quick.  I want to […]

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Saturday spotlight

Saturday spotlight: The Sun and the Star

From the short story in the collection, Titanium Flow By Elyse Salpeter 1913, in a Kansas field   An October dusk settled over the hundreds of rows of withered corn stalks standing like sentries in the Kansas field. The full moon was rising and a brisk wind whistled through the dry shoots, […]

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Monday musing

BestSellers in progress: Part 1

Thursday teasers of bestsellers to come By your favorite BestSelling authors This Thursday and next, we’re giving you something very special: excerpts from works-in-progress. That’s right: a glimpse at books as they flow from the fingertips of some of today’s leaders in new fiction. Tell your avid reader friends about what […]

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Thursday teaser

Horror teasers

For this week’s Teaserday, we’ve assembled a few especially creepy passages for you to…enjoy. We’re working on some special BestSelling Reads combs for those whose hair is still standing on end. Awake From Ricket Row By Elyse Salpeter  Pain. I felt like I was being sliced in half. Shadows loomed over my […]

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Focus Friday

Feature Friday: When Shadows Fall

An excerpt from the high fantasy novel, Book One of the Small Gods series By Bruce Blake The man with the pack jerked the front pocket open sending the button fastening it closed bouncing along the street. He reached in and pulled out the blue paper, held it up. “What […]

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Focus Friday

Focus Friday: Justice

By Jennifer Harlow This week, we shine a spotlight on one of our new members: Jennifer Harlow, and the first book in her Galilee Falls trilogy, Justice. “I hope this guy isn’t just jerking us around,” Cam says as we approach the metal detector. Not many visitors are allowed through these […]

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New Book Announcement

New bestseller: Mating Tomeo

By A.J. Llewellyn The latest torrid love story by bestseller A.J. Llewellyn is available NOW. Tomeo sat outside the house and waited. It was almost six o’clock and his mother would worry if he didn’t go straight inside, but he dreaded what awaited him. The setting sun spread fast across the […]

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