The Open Road Blog

According to the Midcontinent Public Library and Based on the Book, more than 1,200 books, novels, short stories, and plays have been made into English language feature films—and that's just since 1980! In fact, all but two of this year's Academy Award Best Picture nominees are based on books including The Descendants, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Moneyball, and War Horse.  

Of course it's no secret that Hollywood producers and bestselling authors don't always see eye-to-eye when it comes to writing the all-important screenplay adaptation; but with patience, respect, and determination, success—and maybe ...

Editors note: Bestselling authors speak out on behalf of Banned Books Week, September 24-October 1, by sharing their favorite banned books and more.

Loren D. Estleman is the award-winning author of more than sixty-five novels, including mysteries and westerns.  His most enduring character, Amos Walker, has been featured in twenty novels and his adventure novel, The High Rocks was nominated for a National Book Award.  Before “sounding off” on which banned books surprised him the most, Estleman thanked us for “sending the latest list of The Damned”.

I’m never surprised by any of the choices, however innocuous some ...

This week’s archival photo shows Susan Isaacs at home in New York during a New York Post photo shoot. Isaacs was born in 1943 in Brooklyn, New York. After attending Queens College, she became a writer, and eventually the senior editor, for Seventeen magazine. After her marriage and birth of her children, Isaacs left Seventeen to take care of her children, but also worked as a freelance writer, and continued to write magazine articles as well as political speeches. It was during her time at home that she cultivated a love for mystery novels, inspiring her to write one of ...

Open Road Media announces the ebook publication of four novels from the author the New York Times calls “a witty, wry observer of the contemporary scene,” Susan Isaacs. 

Beginning with her classic first novel, Compromising Positions, in which a Long Island housewife with too much time on her hands investigates the murder of a local dentist, Isaacs has received rave reviews and is internationally recognized for her “clever,” “feisty,” “funny,” and “true-to-life” writing. Now readers can add some extra sizzle to their summer reading with Open Road Media’s ebook editions of Isaacs’s Compromising Positions, Long Time No See...