fiction

When Erin Duffy got her pink slip from Merrill Lynch back in August 2008, there was one silver lining. Unemployment gave her time to write a novel. The result was Bond Girl, a fun and highly autobiographical recounting of one young woman's adventures in love and bond sales on Wall Street.

From history and economics to crime novels and biographies, whatever book the president touches -- and talks about -- turns into sales gold. Americans are very clearly interested in whatever the president is reading, and they're buying accordingly.

Two of the largest publishing houses have demonstrated again that when authors like Stephenie Meyer or Stieg Larsson become big phenomenons, big sales -- and big profits -- are the result.

The books that won the coveted Pulitzer Prize this afternoon included an eclectic mix of expected winners and one surprising newcomer. First-time novelist, Paul Harding, took the prize in the fiction category for Tinkers.

It's a mystery Kay Scarpetta, the fictional medical examiner and heroine of the hugely successful mystery novels written by Patricia Cornwell, would love to tackle. However, in a plot twist that Cornwell wouldn't dare to conjure up, this mystery is real. Gone missing is the $40 million personal...

The book industry is undergoing a sea change due to digital printing and electronic distribution. With this change, some interesting new models have appeared offering new avenues for we fiction addicts to feed our monkey. The latest I've run across is startup Anthology Builder. This company offers...