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The Ruins: A Q&A with Becky Docton

The Ruins: A Q&A with Becky Docton

Rebecca McDonnell

The novel opens with an unforgettable scene of a child witnessing her mother’s departure. Was that scene always your starting point? Yes, that scene was always the starting point. I...

Rebecca McDonnell

The Ruins: A Q&A with Becky Docton

The novel opens with an unforgettable scene of a child witnessing her mother’s departure. Was that scene always your starting point? Yes, that scene was always the starting point. I...

All Killers Aboard: A Letter from David Fennell

All Killers Aboard: A Letter from David Fennell

Rebecca McDonnell

Why I Wrote All Killers Aboard After two thrillers and four crime novels, I had accumulated a set of rules. Not writtenrules, nothing so deliberate as that. The kind that...

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Rebecca McDonnell

All Killers Aboard: A Letter from David Fennell

Why I Wrote All Killers Aboard After two thrillers and four crime novels, I had accumulated a set of rules. Not writtenrules, nothing so deliberate as that. The kind that...

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Villa Coco: A Letter from Andrew Sean Greer

Villa Coco: A Letter from Andrew Sean Greer

Rebecca McDonnell

My dear PREM1ER members What ever happened to the ‘charm novel’? You know, the kind of warm and funny story packed with characters and incident and description – something like...

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Rebecca McDonnell

Villa Coco: A Letter from Andrew Sean Greer

My dear PREM1ER members What ever happened to the ‘charm novel’? You know, the kind of warm and funny story packed with characters and incident and description – something like...

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Murder at the Hotel Orient: A Q&A with Alessandra Ranelli

Murder at the Hotel Orient: A Q&A with Alessand...

Rebecca McDonnell

Your hotel runs on anonymity. What’s harder to write: a character with secrets, or a character pretending not to have any? It’s much harder to subtly convey that a person is...

Rebecca McDonnell

Murder at the Hotel Orient: A Q&A with Alessand...

Your hotel runs on anonymity. What’s harder to write: a character with secrets, or a character pretending not to have any? It’s much harder to subtly convey that a person is...

A Q&A with M.L. Stedman (PREM1ER March 2026)

A Q&A with M.L. Stedman (PREM1ER March 2026)

Rebecca McDonnell

A FAR-FLUNG LIFE invites you to step out of your busy life. Leave behind your computer, your phone, your mile-long ‘to do’ list. Let the noise of traffic and the...

Rebecca McDonnell

A Q&A with M.L. Stedman (PREM1ER March 2026)

A FAR-FLUNG LIFE invites you to step out of your busy life. Leave behind your computer, your phone, your mile-long ‘to do’ list. Let the noise of traffic and the...

A Letter from Lori Inglis Hall (PREM1ER February 2026)

A Letter from Lori Inglis Hall (PREM1ER Februar...

Rebecca McDonnell

Dear Goldsboro PREM1ER subscribers, I am so incredibly thrilled that my debut novel The Shock of the Light has been selected as the PREM1ER pick for February, and with such...

Rebecca McDonnell

A Letter from Lori Inglis Hall (PREM1ER Februar...

Dear Goldsboro PREM1ER subscribers, I am so incredibly thrilled that my debut novel The Shock of the Light has been selected as the PREM1ER pick for February, and with such...