This Sunday, HarperCollins and BlogHer team up to launch their Virtual Book Tour, "a three-month opportunity for you to chat intimately with nine prominent authors, get exclusive looks at their books and podcast interviews, and get free books!" Authors on (virtual) tour include Ms. No Good Deeds herself, Laura Lippman.

It's so refreshing to mention HarperCollins without Judith Regan appearing in the same sentence, no?

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Check out this book trailer for Lisa Gardner's new book Hide.

Oh, book trailers! They're just like reading but without those...How you say...Ah yes--words. 

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Here's a free sneak-peek at Carl Hiaasen's new book.

See it here.

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Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas has his own video-enhanced website. Check out http://oddthomas.tv/ for a free glimpse into Odd's life...

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Okay, I'm finally putting an NYC reading series up here. The Target Great Read in the Park will have a special children's area, used-book sales to benefit charity, famous authors on panels and food.

Cross your fingers for good weather -- it's on Oct. 15th.

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The Washington Post's coverage of The National Book Festival (D.C. inhabitants -- I urge you to go) includes fun lunchtime live-author chats.

Click here to read transcripts of chats with Michael Connelly, Chris Buckley, Douglas Brinkley and go there tomorrow for a live chat with Deborah Tannen.

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Will Self, author of highly amusing, often grotesque fiction, has self-published (trying to restrain myself from saying ha) a short story on his eponymous website. It's called The Gesture:

It was one of those things that married people come to loathe about their spouses with a deep and passionate intensity, along with the timbre of their coughs, their tipsy giggles, the particular, guilty creaks with which they ascend the stairs. In Holly’s case, it was the dismissive flick of thumb and index finger, with which Brion indicated that the subject was closed. That he wasn’t going to come out with them to lunch - and that he didn’t wish to talk to her anymore.

Just the right thing to ease you into the workday today.

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