Happy Birthday Selah

On March 22, 2000 God blessed me with a new purpose, a deeper faith in him, and unyielding joy when our daughter Selah Skye was born. For the past twelve years she has been and continues to be my best thing and the best gift God gave to me. She's sweet, full of empathy, helpful to others, and lives to make people happy. She's also an all A student, a Bronze award Girl Scout, first chair Clarinet for her middle school band, and believes that Christ is her Savior. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, baby. I love you with all I have

THRILLER THURSDAY: BIG AUTHOR X MENTORS

One of the missions of ITW's Debut Authors Program involves having established authors provide mentorship to those who are up and coming. You can find all sorts of evidence of this--in the informal conversations at ThrillerFest that take place between Big Author X and someone who has just begun querying, for example--and last Sunday a particularly inspiring instance took place.

Some of the Debuts were talking about which author we'd most like to sit down in a room with and get to ask all those questions that are so seldom asked. You know the ones.
How do you craft a book that gets so many people turning the pages--almost ripping the pages in their haste to turn them? What's it like to see your books all over the world? And even--how did you do it?

We quickly knew which author we'd like to talk with first. The only problem? Debut Authors come from all over the world, so where would the room to talk in be?

Learn more here.