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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Find Your Own Private Idaho

Writing takes a lot of concentration, and to really tap into the well of creativity, I think it helps to understand your biological clock. Sure, I can crawl out of bed at dawn to work, but since my brain doesn’t really kick in until dusk, getting up early doesn’t help me. Instead, I do noncreative work during the daytime. I used to be a programmer, so I’d work my job until five, then go home and cook, get the kids ready for bed, and then settle in around 9:30 p.m. to write. Even though that only gave me an average of four hours a night to work, I was able to do twenty quality pages every night because
I had no distractions and my brain was active. Every book I wrote up until Born in Sin was written while working full-time and raising three children under
the age of seven.

Kinley MacGregor, author of The Warrior

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