| Throughout middle school I tortured the editors of Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine by sending them awful short stories featuring murderous matrons and cross-dressing grandmothers. I worked as a journalist for six years on the staffs of Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly, and have written for Salon.com and other publications.
For the past three years I've researched Sin in the Second City full time, and I'm currently working on my second book, a portrait of Gypsy Rose Lee and Depression-era New York. I live just a few blocks away from the Everleigh sisters' old brownstone near Central Park.
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Steve's first two books, The Amber Room and The Romanov Prophecy were both national bestsellers. His next novel, The Third Secret, became an instant bestseller, debuting at #13 on the New York Times hardcover list and climbing to #5 on the Times paperback list. His fourth, The Templar Legacy, debuted at #4 on the New York Times list and spent eight weeks in the top 10. It also climbed into the top 10 on the USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and BookSense bestseller lists. The paperback became a #1 bestseller on the Publishers Weekly and BookSense bestseller lists. The Alexandria Link, debuted tied for #2 on the New York Times hardcover list, spending five weeks in the top 10. It also ranked in the top 20 for USA Today, and in the top 10 for the Publishers Weekly and BookSense bestseller lists. The paperback spent four weeks on the New York Times list, rising to #6.
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Patti Callahan Henry is the National Bestselling author of four novels with Penguin/NAL. (Losing the Moon, Where the River Runs, When Light Breaks, Betweeen the Tides). THE ART OF KEEPING SECRETS will be released on June 3, 2008.
Patti is hailed as a fresh new voice in southern fiction. She has been short-listed for the Townsend Prize for Fiction and has been nominated for the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Fiction Novel of the Year. She is a frequent speaker at luncheons, book clubs and women’s groups where she discusses the importance of storytelling and anything else they want to talk about.
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Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies including TriQuarterly and Calyx, and her plays have been produced in Atlanta and Chicago. Her bestselling debut novel, gods in Alabama won SIBA's 2005 Novel of the year Award and was a #1 BookSense pick. Between, Georgia was also a #1 BookSense pick, making Jackson the first author in BookSense history to receive #1 status in back to back years. Jackson read the audio version herself, winning a Listen Up award from Publisher's Weekly and making Audiofile's Best of 2006 list. Both books were chosen for the Books-A-Million Book Club. Her third novel, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, will be published by GCP (formerly Warner Books) in March of 2008.
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