Featured Author Brad Parks Reviews a Book for the New York Post

GBF featured author Brad Parks ("Eyes of the Innocent") reviewed "You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity" by by Robert Lane Greene for the New York Post, calling Greene's book, "a fascinating look at the world’s languages and how we use them.

Read the full review.

Featured Author Brad Parks Writes Review for WIROB

GBF featured author Brad Parks ("Eyes of the Innocent") recently reviewed "The Fifth Witness" by Michael Connelly for the Washington Independent Review of Books, calling Connelly's latest "an engrossing and worthwhile read." Read the full review.

Brad Parks Talks Journalism, Novels, and Other Novelists

Recently, seattlepi.com ran a Q&A with Brad Parks ("Eyes of the Innocent" and "Faces of the Gone") in which Parks talks about how his journalism background comes into play when writing -- "I was constantly meeting new and fascinating people – sometimes on the very best or very worst days of their lives – and was given license to ask them whatever impertinent question popped into my head. If that’s not good training to be a novelist, I don’t know what is." -- the differences between journalism and novel writing, and why he likes writing intern characters so much.

Read the interview.

GBF Featured Author Brad Parks Writes a Love Story?

GBF featured author and Shamus Award winner Brad Parks ("Eyes of the Innocent" and "Faces of the Gone") recently penned a (charming and funny!) piece for Shelf Awareness about his email correspondence with Gayle Harris, owner of the Books and Crannies bookstore in Texas, and subsequent visit to her store.

One reveal in the piece: When he reads he does voices! Could make for an interesting show when this Shamus Award winner is at our book festival on May 21!

Read the full story, including his run-in with Gayle's husband who greeted Brad by saying: "So, this is my competition, huh? My wife has been taking you to bed with her every night this week." (Oh, and did we mention he has a Shamus Award? Why are we mentioning that so much? Read his Shelf Awareness piece and you'll get the joke!)