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Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of more than 50 books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt, The NUMA Files, The Oregon Files, Isaac Bell and the Fargo Adventures. G.P. Putnam’s Sons started publishing his work in 1999, a partnership that has remained intact two decades later. Clive turned 88 on July 15th, and his writing career is still going strong after all these years. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Michael Barson --- who worked at Putnam from 1994 to 2015, and is currently the chief publicist for Poisoned Pen Press --- has written a wonderful piece in which he recalls meeting Clive and the 1999 book tour they went on together, which, he says, “was unlike any other I had been involved with up to that time.” Click here to see a photo gallery of Clive and Michael through the years.

USA Today and #1 Denver Post bestselling author Carter Wilson has written five critically acclaimed, stand-alone psychological thrillers. His sixth and latest novel, THE DEAD GIRL IN 2A, is intensely creepy and full of his signature whom-can-you-trust paranoia. In this very uplifting and inspiring piece, Carter draws on personal experience as he encourages us to define our lives, not through time, but through the things that make us happy rather than the things that we feel like we have to do. He has a simple formula for this: PASSION + COMMITMENT = HAPPINESS.