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Giving (or Getting?) a New E-Reader this Holiday Season?

For mystery loving e-reader owners everywhere, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman presents the free e-sampler, The Best Mystery & Thriller Books, chockful of some of the most exciting mysteries and thrillers coming out in Winter 2013!

Featuring excerpts from new and upcoming books from Peter Robinson, Charles Todd, Deborah Crombie, Tim Dorsey, Urban Waite, Hallie Ephron, Jennifer McMahon, Lisa Ballantyne and Laura Lippman, this is the perfect book to browse as you plan your winter reading - and the best part is that it's free!

The Best Mystery & Thriller Sampler contents:

Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson

Proof of Guilt by Charles Todd

The Sound of Broken Glass by Deborah Crombie

The Riptide Ultra-Glide by Tim Dorsey

The Carrion Birds by Urban Waite

There Was An Old Woman by Hallie Ephron

The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon

The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne

And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman 

Three Shorts Stories by Laura Lippman: Scratch a Woman; One True Love; Form 95 by Laura Lippman

 

Download it now for your Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Android or iPad!

Listen to Tonight's Show with Jennifer McMahon Discussing Don't Breathe a Word Now!

If you missed tonight's live broadcast of the Book Club Girl on Air show with Jennifer McMahon discussing her new novel, Don't Breathe a Word, you can listen in now. Thanks so much to Jennifer and to everyone who joined us in the discussion!

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Reminder! Our Book Club Girl on Air Show with Jennifer McMahon is Tomorrow, Wednesday June 22nd!

Just a reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday June 22nd at 7 pm ET we'll be talking with Jennifer McMahon about her new novel, Don't Breathe a Word, on Book Club Girl on Air!

Set your reminder for the show here, and return to that same link to listen and participate live on Wednesday night.

During the show you'll be able to call in and ask Jennifer questions directly by dialing 347-945-6149, or you can type questions into the chat that we'll relay to her to answer on-air.

Be sure to register on the site before 7 on Wednesday, so you can participate in the chat from the beginning of the show. Be sure to check out the reading group guide as well. We can't wait to talk to all of you and Jennifer tomorrow night!

Jennifer McMahon Joins Book Club Girl on Air to Discuss Don't Breathe a Word!

I have loved Jennifer McMahon since her novel Promise Not to Tell was published in 2007. Since then she's continued to intrigue (and scare) her readers with the books that followed: Island of Lost Girls and Dismantled. Her newest novel, Don't Breathe a Word, is just out and I'm thrilled that she'll be joining us on Book Club Girl on Air on Wednesday, June 22nd to discuss it!

On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen.

Fifteen years later, Phoebe is in love with Sam, a practical, sensible man who doesn’t fear the dark and doesn’t have bad dreams—who, in fact, helps Phoebe ignore her own. But suddenly the couple is faced with a series of eerie, unexplained occurrences that challenge Sam’s hardheaded, realistic view of the world. As they question their reality, a terrible promise Sam made years ago is revealed—a promise that could destroy them all.

New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson said, "Don’t Breathe a Word is a haunting page-turner that kept me up, spine shivering and enthralled, way past my bedtime.”

You can read about the inspiration behind the novel in this essay Jennifer wrote for the Powell's blog and browse inside the book now.  I also have 10 copies to give away to first 10 people who commment that they can read it in time to participate in the show on June 22nd at 7pm ET.

Set your reminder for the show, and be sure to visit Jennifer's website and friend her on Facebook and Twitter as well!

Giveaway Winners!

I'm happy to announce several giveaway winners!

For Meg Waite Clayton's The Wednesday Sisters, the winner is ....Kelly from My Utopia!

For Jennifer Weiner's Best Friends Forever we ended up having two winners thanks to some extra books we received, so the two lucky winners (and their best friends, cuz they're each getting two books) are...Jill from Rhapsody in Books and Debbie F.

For the Book Club Girl Tote of Books:
Perfection
by Julie Metz
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
The Lace Makers of Glenmara
by Heather Barbieri
Dismantled
by Jennifer McMahon

the winner is J.T. Oldfield from Bibliofreak!

And last but certainly not least, the winner of the three reissued Betsy-Tacy high school books (which I won't have to send out until early September) is Dyan!

   

Congratulations to all and thanks to everyone for entering!

Tell Me about Authors Who Have Visited Your Book Club and You'll Be Entered to Win a Book Club Girl Bag of Books!

So this month my book group has chosen, quite by chance, a book by a local author. We're considering inviting him to join us for our discussion, but before we do, I wanted to hear from all of you about what works well, and what doesn't, when you invite an author to your book group. I'm used to interviewing authors with on the radio show, but the idea of having someone actually visit our group is obviously much different. Who's had an author visit in person, and if you have, how did you do it? My instinct is to have the group meet first for about 30 minutes and get ourselves somewhat organized and then have him join us after that. Does that make sense to those of you who have hosted an author? There's a bit of added pressure in that I'm the one hosting next month, so I'll also need the house to be really clean. :)

Please send in your stories/comments about having an author visit in person, or on the phone. As incentive, I'll randomly choose one person from all the comments received by midnight Friday, June 26th to win a Book Club Girl totebag of these great hardcover summer reads:

Perfection
by Julie Metz
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
The Lace Makers of Glenmara
by Heather Barbieri
Dismantled
by Jennifer McMahon