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2 weeks ago | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe |F. Scott Fitzgerald |Nghi Vo |Jillian Cantor
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”Well over a decade has passed since the first time I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and yet its last line remains indelible, an elegiac refrain so innately human, so attuned to our greatest pains and most fervent desires, that it was impossible to forget.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
bewitchedbookworms.com | Gu Byeong-Mo |Jillian Cantor |Women's Fiction
PrologueAmeliaSometimes the end of everything sneaks up on you when you least expect it. I read that once, in a Gloria Diamond novel. Only she was referring to an asteroid. For me, the end came as a 32 DD red lace bra. It happened on a rare rainy day in LA, two months after my thirty-third birthday. Two days after my mother had died. She had collapsed quite suddenly in her garden, my mother.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
primewomen.com | Sandy Dominy |Charles Duhigg |Jillian Cantor |Dan Saladino
March is filled with an abundance of exciting new books from best-selling authors! There are new mysteries by Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know, and B. A Paris, The Guest. Also, you’ll find inspirations from The Fast by John Oakes, and how to improve your conversations with Supercommunicators.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Norma Klingsick |Jillian Cantor |Jessica Knoll |Ariel Lawhon
Women exhibited great courage, determination and loyalty in three of the novels I read for book clubs in January and February.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
crimereads.com | Jillian Cantor
My latest novel, The Fiction Writer, is a modern-day gothic mystery that explore the boundaries of creative freedom. It asks questions about writing and ownership and who owns the right to tell any story. My main character, Olivia, is a writer, whose most recent novel, a retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca was a flop. So when her agent brings her an offer for a well-paying ghostwriting gig, it almost feels too good to be true.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
betterreading.com.au | Jillian Cantor
Last night I dreamt I went to Malibu again. I stood barefoot on the sand, the cool water nipping at my ankles. And there, high above me, perched on the edge of that magnificent cliff, his stunning house sat as it once had, alive, whole. It had ten bedrooms and was on three private cliffside acres, with a lap pool, a tennis court, and a garden blooming flush with pink and white bougainvillea.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
writersdigest.com | Jillian Cantor
I had a professor for a writing class in college who used to always tell us to “write what you know.” But then he would amend that by saying no one wanted to read about writers, so, we should write about what we know outside of our writing lives. (Writing Real Relationships.)It took me about 25 years to understand I both agreed and disagreed with this advice. One, I did want to write what I know. But two, I realized I actually love reading books about writers! Why couldn’t I write one myself?
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
female.com.au | Jillian Cantor
A gripping tale of romance, intrigue and deadly secrets – for fans of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Colleen Hoover's Verity and Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
Last night I dreamt I went to Malibu again...
Once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is in a downward spiral. After her second novel, a retelling of Rebecca, fails, her third novel can't find a publisher. And Olivia's boyfriend breaking up with her hasn't helped her creativity much either.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
crimespreemag.com | Jillian Cantor
For much of my adult life, we’ve had four cats living in our household. But then during the pandemic our elderly cats one by one got sick and died, and by early 2023, we had only one cat living in our house, a thirteen-year-old orange tabby named Jake. Jake came to us from a rescue organization when he was a year old, after he was adopted by another family and then returned for being “too friendly.” The rescue said he needed to be in a house with kids and other pets, and that was. . .
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Darby Kane |Nora Roberts |Patricia Cornwell |Jillian Cantor
Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn’t know committed suicide. A tenuous link—one text—bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right.
