Just in case your New Year's resolutions had something to do with reading, too, here's a title for anyone who loves a good, suspenseful yarn involving creepy old houses, mistaken identities, and ghosts from high school past. In NEVER TELL A LIE, Ivy and David Rose seem to have the perfect life--a Victorian fixer-upper, a happy marriage, a first baby on the way--until a woman who claims to know them shows up at their yard sale. She introduces herself as Melinda White, but she looks and acts...

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Chasing Trends

Don’t worry about market trends, eventually they’ll find you. Write the book of your heart, every time. Sure it helps if the book is marketable, but don’t chase trends. By the time you catch one, it’s already passed. I’ve built my entire career writing books that were unmarketable. When I first submitted A Pirate of Her Own, my best friend (a NYT best-selling author) chastised me for writing a pirate book at a time no one was publishing them, “and even when they were, Sherri, no one bought a book set in 1791.” Not even my agent at that time would send it out. It languished for over a year before I sent it out on my own. The first publisher who saw it (HarperCollins) gave me a three book contract, and A Pirate of Her Own is still in print seven years later and is now in its ninth printing. Had I listened to the nay-sayers, Kinley MacGregor would never have been born.

Kinley MacGregor, author of The Warrior

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