Khaled Hosseini's novels have sold more than 38 million copies worldwide. Now, six years after A Thousand Splendid Suns debuted at #1 (spending fourteen consecutive weeks at #1 and nearly a full year on the hardcover list) Hosseini returns with a book that is broader in scope and setting than anything he's ever written before: And The Mountains Echoed. On May 27, Indigo has an exclusive interview with this beloved novelist, and we want to open this opportunity to you, our customers. Did you read and love The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns? What would you ask this bestselling author? Post your questions in the comments below or on Twitter using the hashtag #EchoedQandA. We'll choose the best to ask Khaled Hosseini, and record his response as a personalized video for each question.

The Malazan Book of the Fallen is an epic fantasy series indeed, spanning ten volumes and more than eleven thousand pages. Steven Erikson said, as he began the tenth and final volume, "I have a tale to tell and until it is done an inexorable momentum drives me...There is something diabolical at work here and I have no idea what it is." The tale is many-faceted and immensely detailed. Like George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones, it looks at a massive conflict not only from the viewpoints of rulers and military commanders, but also from the viewpoints of ordinary people: common soldiers, bartenders, children. Some have dreadful powers, and some have only the strength of their own hands. No one is safe. Reissued in hardcover for its tenth anniversary, Gardens of the Moon introduces the players and their vast stage. Erikson says, "If you are to share the journey that begins with Gardens of the Moon, hold tight against impatience." The reader would do well to listen, but it's a story that rewards attention many times over. Erikson says in a 2009 Clarkesworld interview that he writes "to find gestures of humanity in the midst of suffering and chaos: love,…

Robert Rotenberg’s latest Ari Greene thriller, Stranglehold, is out now.  The Indigo Fiction Blog is pleased to share this original post from the author himself.    *** The greatest line I’ve ever heard about fiction writing is that it has a great advantage over non-fiction, because fiction can tell the truth. Sounds odd. But think. You want to know about England in the early 1800s what do you read? Dickens. California during the dust bowl in the 1930s? Steinbeck of course. Now I’m not saying I’m a Dickens or a Steinbeck, but what I try to do in my novels is to show Toronto as it really is. Now. Today. Not an all-cutesy CBC-type happy multicultural soap opera where everyone is sweet all the time. And not some dark, horrid place where heinous crimes happen every hour. Just the facts. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This is a city in radical transformation. Shedding its adolescent skin, and not really sure what true maturity will bring. Hence the stasis. The indecision. And that key component that makes all great literature: the conflict. My first novel, Old City Hall, takes the reader to the heart of Toronto’s…

Neil Gaiman once said, “Good fiction unites us, as humans, because it gives us empathy. Because it makes us look at the world through other people’s eyes. And it’s a wonderful way of realizing that other people exist.” After reading Anthony Marra’s stunning first novel, I am aware of just how in the dark I’ve been. Not only do other people exist, of course, but other people are miraculous. Other people, regardless of whether you have met them, or ever will, are sparks of wonder. This novel’s honesty and power hit me right in the solar plexus. I’m talking straight to the gut, take-your-breath-away, raw, crippling honesty. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena tells the story of six incredible characters during the horrific turmoil in Chechnya from 1994-2004. The book opens with a haunting scene featuring two of these characters, Akhmed and his best friend’s daughter, Havaa. The previous evening, Akhmed had watched from his window as his best friend Dokka was tied up and thrown into the back of a Russian military vehicle. He knew this was coming, and knew that Dokka was smart enough to hide his only child, and so Akhmed and Havaa begin a long journey, through an…