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By Sara Gran Sara Gran is the founder of Dreamland Books and the author of, most recently, “Little Mysteries.” March 24, 2025 Some people use noir to mean a spare writing style; others ...

What if no one showed up to your book signing? When author Jonathan Stanley set up shop at Barnes & Noble to promote his book, “Purposeful Performance: The Secret Mix of Connecting, Leading ...

In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...

Police have arrested a Sydney author on child abuse material charges following global outrage over her book entitled: “Daddy’s Little Toy.” Christian charity marketing executive Lauren ...

She wrote seven books in a series that went on to be a hit TV show. After she was replaced by ghostwriters, she reclaimed her characters online in fan fiction. By Jeré Longman L.J. Smith ...

LJ Smith, the author whose bestselling Vampire Diaries novels were adapted into a hit TV show, has died aged 66. The New York Times reports that the bestselling author died on March 8 in Walnut ...

A Victoria author is facing death threats after one of her children’s books, which tells the story of a puppy that gets lost in a Pride parade, became embroiled in a U.S. Supreme Court challenge.

Author L.J. Smith has died at age 66. “Lisa Jane Smith of Danville, California passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 8, 2025, after a long bout with illness,” an obituary on the writer’s ...

Lauren Tesolin Mastrosa, an Australian author from Sydney who writes erotic fiction under the pen name 'Tori Woods,' has been charged with producing child sexual abuse material in connection with ...

A bestselling author was shot by police and accused of attempted murder after, authorities said, she pointed a gun at officers who were searching for hit-and-run suspects in a residential Los ...