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 […]

Morsels of mysteries

Thursday teasers for Mystery March It’s Mystery Month at BestSelling Reads. And you know that your favorite BestSelling authors have some great books to make you turn pages as fast as you can to find out whodunit. To whet your mystery appetite, here are a few snippets from some of […]

BestSelling authors look ahead

At the opening of 2021, the world looks and feels different from this time last year. So much has happened. BestSelling authors offer their perspectives on the coming year. D.G. Torrens 2020 felt like an apocalyptical cloud looming over the world at one point! I lost my Grandma last August […]

Our latest books

Thursday teasers from your favorite bestselling authors BestSelling Reads authors are a prolific bunch. Here are some short teasers from their latest books. Once Upon a [Fallen] Time Samreen Ahsan There was a dreamlike rightness and magic to this moment—incomprehensible madness. Her kiss flooded into every pore of my existence—wrecking […]

2020 in the rear-view mirror

It’s almost over: the year that everyone wants to leave behind. The year of a new pandemic, of civic strife around the world, of new threats and of dangers re-emerging. BestSelling Reads authors are taking the next two weeks to look back on a year that left scars on every […]

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 […]

A true Christmas story

By Seb Kirby Here is a true story that took place on a snowy night some years ago….  It’s Christmas Eve. My son Ben is 5, soon to be 6. He still believes in Father Christmas. I’ve convinced myself that the time has come to tell him ‘the truth.’  Harsh, […]