FIRST THRILLS (2010Forge) Edited by Lee Child “This is another thriller anthology and it’s got the big guns it. Ken Bruen, Lee Child, Rebecca Cantrell, Heather Graham, Gregg Hurwitz, John Lutz, Karin Slaughter and many more. All the stories are brand new and have not been published anywhere else before. Some stand outs for me [...]

Next time you’re wandering around the bookstore, be sure to head over to the writer’s reference section and check out the beautiful four-page spread that just happens to be my essay about my road to publication in the just-released “2011 Guide to Literary Agents”! From the book description: To help writers acquire an agent, GLA [...]

Carol Thompson! Congratulations, Carol! If you’ll send your mailing address to me at karendionne@bksp.org, I’ll pop your multiply signed copy of the FIRST THRILLS anthology in the mail. Edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, FIRST THRILLS includes never-before-published stories by New York Times bestselling authors including Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, [...]

I got an advance copy of Writer’s Digest’s “The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing” today because my article “Fact Into Fiction” from the January issue on incorporating research smoothly into your novel was selected to be included. Now my article appears alongside the wisdom of such greats as Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Anne Tyler, John [...]

Here’s something fun – my author copies of Freezing Point finally arrived from the Czech Republic!  What I want to know is, who’s that “Jeffu Kleinmanovi” guy mentioned in my acknowledgements?

So what if you’re not a scientist? you may be thinking. Hundreds of thousands of people could make the same claim: lawyers, social workers, pastry chefs; stockbrokers, carpenters, newspaper reporters; race car drivers, kindergarten teachers, and on and on. But I write science thrillers. My debut novel FREEZING POINT, which Berkley Books published in October [...]

Best conference for thriller writers EVER.

I’m absolutely THRILLED to announce that my editor at Berkley has signed on for a second environmental thriller from me. Boiling Point brings back two characters from my debut novel, Freezing Point – Ross Roundtree and Rebecca Sweet – and features an erupting volcano, a missing researcher, and a scheme to end global warming – [...]