Hey so like, you may have heard that more actors are publishing novels these days. Maybe some of you read Sean Penn’s Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff. In fact, maybe… Read more »

It’s happening. The mercury’s climbing. The beach beckons. You’ll do anything to cool down. Summer (give or take) is upon us. It’s going to be like life in a chewing-gum-commerical — completely… Read more »

Gather round, friends, and I’ll tell you of a novel, a page-turning, furiously intelligent, unbelievably compelling, genre-smashing, heart-racing, super-exciting, crazily beautiful debut novel that a Brooklyn-based independent publisher brought out just about… Read more »

Everybody loves ’em: paperbacks. But how, exactly, does a gorgeous hardcover become a magnificent paperback? We made this quick video to explain how we did it with one of our… Read more »

Martin Seay’s The Mirror Thief is enjoying a rapturous wave of publicity. In the The New York Times Book Review, Scarlett Thomas calls it “audaciously well-written…the book I was raving about to my… Read more »

Martin Seay’s The Mirror Thief is a 600-page debut novel about Venice. Three Venices, to be specific. It can’t be pigeonholed into one single genre; here it’s a hardboiled detective thriller, here… Read more »

This year’s AWP Bookfair & Conference was held in sunny Los Angeles, which was a blessed relief during a weekend when the Northeast was being hit with hail, chills, and all those… Read more »

Greetings from Denver and the American Bookseller Association’s annual Winter Institute, where Melville House has been representing great books and celebrating author Martin Seay (The Mirror Thief, out in May 2016)! It’s… Read more »