Summer time, and the reading is easy

Monday musings By Scott Bury The season is here. The big parties that traditionally open the season have happened, despite all advice to the contrary. Weekend visits to the cottage or beach have turned into weeks-long vacations and road trips. And that means that summer reading season has started, as […]

Do current events affect fiction?

Monday musings by multiple bestsellers There is much happening in the world today. Events are reaching the lives of more and more people, more deeply than is usual in our fragmented, digitally distanced society. If fiction offers a mirror to society, how do fiction writers incorporate the events of the […]

Pandemic tales

Monday musings by bestselling authors Hopefully, we will soon live in post-pandemic world. But we all know that everything has changed. So much of what we once thought of as “normal” is now over and done. How will this affect the stories and books we love to read? BestSelling Reads […]

Writing in quarantine time

Everything has changed: travel, work, leisure. Visiting family and friends. Writing has changed, too. BestSelling Reads authors describe what’s different for them. Alan McDermott You’d think that being stuck at home would be great for a writer, but not this one. If I was alone it wouldn’t be such a […]

February—Still the month of romance

Valentine’s Day 2021 has passed, but it’s still the month of Romance as well as Black history on BSR. Sign up for our email newsletter, and you will get to download five bestselling stories about love and all its wonder and confusion. For Everly by Raine Thomas—Struggling physiotherapy student Everly Wallace must […]

A tree soldier in the Pacific Northwest

A historical Thursday teaser from the novel By J.L. Oakley A couple of hours later, Hardesty was standing along the edge of the camp parade ground with the rest of his young squad mates. They all looked like they wanted to bolt.  He followed their line of sight. Behind the […]