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We are so excited and proud to announce our 2027 pick: "The Irish Goodbye" by Heather Aimee O'Neill! heatheraimeeoneill.com/ Reserve a copy at your library today - available as a hardcover book, large print book, ebook, and downloadable audio formats. longislandreads.org/
ALT Hello Summer on a blue background that looks like waves with a beach ball, watermelon slice, coconut drink, pineapple, sunglasses, palm fronds, and a float ring around it.
ALT Juneteenth: The Day of Freedom with a silhouette of a woman against a red, yellow, and green tattered flag with red and yellow flowers in her hair.
Happy publishing anniversary to our 2021 selection The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, which came out on June 2, 2020.
If you missed this year's @longislandreads event, visit our webpage to watch the recording.
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Check out this great article in the Fire Island News between last year's author Jane L. Rosen and this year's author Chris Pavone.
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CP: I don’t like to tie up my books with a bow. I like the readers to add their own interpretations.
CP: all my books have the same thing in common - the last sentence is very long and is meant to encapsulate the whole book.
Q: did you get any complaints when you called Riverhead an armpit?
A: I didn’t. My characters say and do a lot of bad things - none of those characters is me.
Q: do you write when you’re in Orient?
A: I do. I write on my porch that faces a Main Street in the village. People stop and say hi, etc. and they always apologize for bothering me. I tell them that if I didn’t want to be bothered, I wouldn’t sit on my porch.
Q: did you write the ending 1st or do you write several endings?
A: I usually know how the book is going to end, but sometimes when I get to the end, I decide it needs to be changed.
CP: if you’re looking for an agent bc you’re a writer, know that agents tend to stop reading on page 1-2 bc going farther means you’re not spending that time w your kids. Make sure your page 1 is fabulous!
Q: have you been offered to have this book turned into a movie and did you accept?
A: yes & yes. Several of my books have, but right now none of them have actually made it to the big or small screen.
Q: how did you come up w the name The Bohemia?
A: I took it from when the arts were more important & bohemians were all around NY.
CP: I like to write suspense. I took inspiration from To Kill a Mockingbird where the beginning mentions Gem broke her arm, but you don’t know how that happened until the end. You’re reading the book trying to find out how it happened. I want that for my books.
Q: Why did you choose to name the chapters after the apartments instead of the people?
A: Because if you’re the guy who lives in the penthouse, you’re always that guy, just like if you’re the doorman, you’re always the doorman.