Elliot Ackerman’s appeared on CNN to discuss, the air strikes in Iraq and the U.S. Strategy to combat ISIS. His essay “The Islamic State's Strategy Was Years in the Making” was recently published in the New Republic. Scribner will publish his first novel, GREEN ON BLUE, in spring 2015.

Samantha Hunt’s THE INVENTION OF EVERYTHING ELSE was listed on Flavorwire’s “50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read.” Samantha’s next novel MR. SPLITFOOT is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Lin Enger’s THE HIGH DIVIDE was reviewed by Kirkus, which said, “Enger's novel embraces not one but three journeys that involve guilt, expiation and redemption . . . Enger writes in an expansive style suitable to his sprawling subject.” Algonquin Books will publish the book on September 23, 2014.

Rene Steinke’s FRIENDSWOOD was reviewed in O Magazine and Booklist. Booklist said, “With exceptional perception and deft artistry, Steinke (Holy Skirts, 2005) traces a matrix of poisonous acts in this magnetizing and sensitive tale of hidden dangers, the tyranny of the status quo, trust betrayed, crimes personal and planetary, and individuals transformed.”

NPR's Arun Rath talks to Josh Weil about his new novel THE GREAT GLASS SEA, which imagines a dystopian Russia of 24-hour daylight and 24-hour labor under a greenhouse dome. Grove Atlantic published the book on Jul 2, 2014.

Xiaolu Guo will be in the US during September and October, promoting her new novel I AM CHINA, which Nan A Talese will publish on September 2, 2014. The dates are as followed: Wednesday, 9/3: Asia Society Texas Center (Houston, TX), Tuesday, 9/9: PEN American Center (New York, NY), Wednesday, 9/10: Asia Society (New York, NY), Sunday, 9/21: Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY) Monday, 9/22: University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) Tuesday, 9/23: Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA) Thursday, 9/25: Colgate University (Hamilton, NY) Wednesday, 10/1: British Consulate General New York (New York, NY) Saturday, 10/4: Brown University (Providence, RI).

Rene Steinke's essay “The Driver Just Didn’t See You” was published in the “Lives” column of the August 10th, 2014 issue of the New York Times Magazine. Riverhead will publish her latest book, FRIENDSWOOD, on August 14.

CUT AND THRUST, the latest Stone Barrington novel debuted at number 3 on the Combined Print and E-book and number 4 on the Hardcover Fiction New York Times Bestseller lists for the week of August 3, 2014. Putnam published the book on July 15, 2014.

For the week ending 8/3 Dan Harris’ 10% HAPPIER: How I Tamed The Voice In My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works- A True Story was #16 on the LA TIMES list and #37 on the IndieBound list for Hardcover Nonfiction. Recently Dan Harris was interviewed on Eric Zimmer’s The One Your Feed podcast and on Twitter by Talks With Teachers as part of their Nonfiction Book club. IT books published the book in hardcover March 11, 2014.

Richard Preston, author of THE HOT ZONE, has a piece in the August 11/18th issue of The New Yorker about the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa. Random House published the #1 New York Times bestseller THE HOT ZONE in 1994.