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Show B Pub UB RNS I BN Q UB dates set for naught ail sterna? t(ayScc3tla novel! Patricio Cornwell takes her readers deeper into Scarpettas soul than ever before. best-selli- Dear Burning Questions: Would you please tell me if Alabama writer Nancy Kincaid has any new projects on the way? I've read all three of her books. Balls, Crossing Blood and Prelending the Bed Is a Raft , and I'm anxious to read morel A. Willis Kay Scarpetta is a character as strong as any in popular fiction.1 The Wall Street Journal ail early lOs my adolescent years. McCain himself is scarce removed from his boy hood and those innocent" times hen he is forced to conso front the evil and wrong-doin- g Iowa. incongruous with small-tow- n Please profile this Edgar-- inning author and tell me that McCain will have a long literary life locked in the '60s. John Miller South Bend, Indiana We recently spoke to Nancy Kincaid from her home in Arizona, and she let us in on her works in progress. Kincaid says she's got two books going at once, but has set one set aside to concentrate on the other. Her next novel has the tentative title Vena and Lucky, and is set in Kincaid's home state of Alabama. Coming from a blended family. Kincaid found herself writing about second marriages, in which different families come together and bring other people to the relationship. She plans lo complete the draft in December. Her other bool is set in Wetumpka, Alabama, in the Julia Tutwiler Women's Prison. To lend a sense of reality to the novel, Kincaid has made two visits to the prison to talk to inmates, and this five-da- y workspring returned to hold a novel Kincaid this began as a shop. says character-drive- n story of woman who killed her husband, but it's become more complicated than that. We can't wait to see for ourselves. w What folly! Dear Burning Questions, I'm a devoted fan of Laurie King (especially her Kate Martinelli series). W hat does she have on the horizon? via ail i In February Laurie King brings us Folly (Bantam), the story of Rae Newborn, a woman on the edge who has moved to Folly Island to restore the house of her mysterious King is the author of four Kate Martinelli detective novels and five mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes' young apprentice, Mary Russell. King lives in northern California, where she is at work on the sixth book in the Mary Russell series. great-uncl- A TIis Talk Miramax chick via lUATIOIMAUBESTSELLER Books and BookPage have a treat in store for 25 lucky readers signed, first edition copies of A Density Of Souk by Christopher Rice. In his debut novel, the son of gothic writer Anne Rice tells the suspensehd story of four New Orleans teens whose friendship is tom apart by passion and murder: To enter; your ful name and address to corrtestbookpage.com and specify "Rice Contest in the subject fine of the message. Or mal your entry to: Rice Contest, BookPage, 2143 Belcourt Ave., Nashville, TN 37212. Entries must be received by Dec. 11 and winners will be selected in a random drawing. Slippery things, those publication dates. Water's Edge will be released in late December by Pocket Books. Dixie Si ISN Special drawing for 25 lucky souls Dear Burning Questions: In April, 1 thought Judith McNaught was to have a new book out, then it got postponed. Do you have the status of w hen she will next publish a book? Gloria Brubaker via I e. little bit of nostalgia Dear Burning Questions, Ed Gorman's two McCain novels, Wake Vp Little Susie and The Day the Music Died, give lie to the bromide You can't judge a book bv its cover." Both are dead-o- n recreations of the T? Kirkus Reviews recently noted that Ed Gorman is the only serious rival Lawrence Block has among contemporary writers of crime short stones. Not that this kind of recognition has come quickly or easily. Gorman has published more than 30 books (novels and collections of his stones) in 20 years of writing. He has wntien in many different genres crime, horror, westerns, science fiction and only recently, with his Sam McCain novels, started to attract wide reviewer attention. He lives in Iowa with his wife, novelist Carol Gorman, his two grandchildren and three cats. As for the McCains. Gorman tells BookPage, I hope to do at least a dozen novels in the McCain saga. This is the only series I've ever really enjoyed writing, except for two seriocomic mysteries about a alcoholic film critic that reviewers liked and nobody bought. Fortunately, the McCains seem to be finding an audience. 1 think 1 enjoy writing them because they're funny and a little bit nostalgic and yet give a truer, grittier picture of the '50s and '60s than you find in the Happy Davs son of thing. Will You Still Lpe Me Tomorrow!, the third McCain novel, u ill be out in December from Carroll & Graf. 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