Alma Katsu
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The Taker
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Interviews

I'm interviewed at the Midtown Review podcast (NEW!)

Romance website Dear Author talks to me about The Taker (NEW!)

Talking to Sci-fi/Fantasy blogger Dane Jordan (NEW!)

I talk to Kimberly Brock (NEW!)

Bookreporter features The Taker, with an author interview

Nice interview at Hooked on Books

The newspapers where I started my writing career as a teenaged stringer interviews me

Fun interview at Writerhead where I admit to where the bodies are buried

I'm interviewed by author Todd Ritter

Much fun talking to I'm Not the Nanny

I'm interviewed at Girls In the Stacks

I confess to my fear of drinking at the Drinking Diaries

Psychology Today gets inside my head as we talk about The Taker

Interview with Alma

Fun interviews at Dark Faerie Tales and Books for Company

Great Q&A at Linus's Blanket

Watch an author interview about The Taker

Articles

American Library Association-Booklist names The Taker one of the best debut novels of 2011 (NEW!)

Nice mention of The Taker in PW's coverage of the SIBA annual trade show and conference

Local Patch.com affiliate has nice things to say about The Taker and my career transition

io9's notable September releases

Associated Press says The Taker is "...engrossing...enjoyable... a highly respectable debut"

Salon.com asked, as "one of the writers you'll be likely to read this fall," what I read this summer

International Thriller Writers' September issue of The Big Thrill talks about The Taker

Mention of The Taker in this Washington Post article on the rise of independent bookstores and One More Page Books in Arlington, VA

The Taker is a Featured Book at New Books Magazine!

PW Book Expo America coverage of The Taker

A nice mention in Fangoria

Guest Posts

I talk about the true nature of love at NYT bestselling novelist Caroline Leavvitt's blog (NEW!)

Can a real spy write a spy novel? I share my thoughts at ITW's blog, The Thrill Begins (NEW!)

On inspiration coming from unlikely sources at Whatever

On the perils of writing the cross-genre novel at Beyond the Margins

At 1st Books, "From Writer to Spy to Writer"

I talk about "writing outside your life" at Writer Unboxed

The Taker week on Random House Australia's blog:

Live blog event wrap-up at Bitten by Books

The Taker
(Spanish)

Foreign Rights

Longanesi, Italian publisher of The Taker, will publish The Reckoning

Hungarian rights to The Taker sold to Agave Kiedo

The Taker now available in the UK, India, Poland and New Zealand... in Spain on 10 June and Australia on 1 July

Translation rights sold to Novo Conceito in Brazil!

DeBolsillo unveiled the book cover for the Spanish version, titled "Inmortal"

The Taker
(Polish)

Translation rights for The Taker have been sold to:

Longanesi (Italy)
De Bolsillo/Random House Mondadori (Spain)
Exmo (Russia)
Proszynski I Ska (Poland)
Bard (Bulgaria)
Algoritam (Croatia)

Reviews

New reviews from Surrey Now Newspaper and others here

New Reviews and Q&As:

Vampire Book Club names The Taker one of its favorite books of 2011

Nice review of The Taker at Fantasy Book Critic: "...a captivating novel and one of the best debuts of the year"

Reviews at Stargazerpuj's Book Blog ("Highly recommended"), and Just Another Story ("an amazing novel")

TVNZ review finds The Taker "quite intriguing"

Historical Novel Review enjoys The Taker

We-Dwoje.pl raves about The Taker

Reviews at Lelia Bean, Juniper's Jungle, A Cupcake and a Latte, and Clover Hill Book Review

Cosmopolitan UK makes The Taker a Book of the Week pick

"Spookily captivating!" says Marie Claire UK

Daisy Chain Books review

One More Page interview and review

Review of The Taker on I Want to Read That review

Falcata Times review and interview

The Bookbag's review of The Taker and interview with Alma Katsu

Book Addict Katie's review of The Taker

"Big Names Release New Books in 2011" includes The Taker as "a debut to watch."
   The Scotsman newspaper (read the full review)

Misc.

A very short story about a haunted spot on the Allagash River as part of Dark Faerie Tales' Spooky Legends Halloween celebration (NEW!)

Book Riot puts The Taker in the same class as A Discovery of Witches, The Magicians, The Hangman's Daughter, and The Night Circus

We take the Page 69 Test

I'm asked about what I'm reading right now on Writers Read

Target has selected The Taker for its New Releases Bestseller program and Starbucks has made The Taker a selection for its Bookish Reading Club!

Check out book trailers, video interviews and more!

My panel at Comic-con San Diego makes the list of recommended panels at Bleeding Cool News, Dread Central and Movieline

The Taker has been chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection!

The Taker book trailer #12 most watched video in the UK the week of release!

Giveaway on Linus's Blanket

The Taker goes into second printing in the UK!!

Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster and Century/Random House UK have signed the next two books in the series

Simon & Schuster will be releasing an audiobook version of The Taker

Random House UK will be issuing an audiobook version of The Taker