One of my favorite things about reading for a living is watching authors who I discovered as debut writers mature. One I have had my eye on was Michele Martinez, whose latest book COVER-UP will be in stores on March 13th. Michele's work gets better with each book (this is her third) and I truly love her style, as well as her characters. I see a huge future for her. We will have a feature about her starting next week.

Winter moved in this week, but luckily there were great author and book events to keep my mind off the weather and other things. I was lucky enough to catch Linda Fairstein's appearance Tuesday evening where she gave a fabulous chat and Q&A about her latest book, BAD BLOOD, which is just on sale. As readers know, I really enjoyed this one and Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum gives it a thumbs up review this week. Linda does extensive research and her description of hunkering down in an elevator to plummet below the depths of New York to see the work the sandhogs do was just one example of her diligence to getting the details right.