Best-Selling Author Jeffery Deaver to Conduct Q&A Session at Backspace

Authors, fans look forward to Deavers February 28 online visit

(PRWEB) January 30, 2005 -- Jeffery Deaver, author of twenty popular thrillers, including the internationally best-selling Lincoln Rhyme series, will be answering fans' and fellow writers questions at Backspace, an online writers discussion forum (www.bksp.org) on February 28. Deaver not only understands the nuances of his craft; he generously shares his hard-earned knowledge with other authors. By agreeing to a guest spot on Backspace, hes giving hundreds of writers the valuable opportunity to have their most pressing questions answered by an expert.

Deaver is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year. In 2001, he won the W.H. Smith Thumping Good Read Award for his Lincoln Rhyme novel The Empty Chair, and in 2004 he won the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Garden Of Beasts. Two of his novels have been made into films: The Bone Collector from Universal Pictures, starring Denzel Washington as Lincoln Rhyme, and A Maiden's Grave, made into an HBO film titled Dead Silence, starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin. Garden Of Beasts will be released as a paperback in the USA and Canada in February, and in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in May.

Backspace helps aspiring writers attain publishing success through an impressive collection of how-to articles and advice from top industry experts, as well as networking opportunities with bestselling authors and other publishing professionals. The discussion forums are available for a $30 annual membership fee which includes a five-day free trial period that allows non-members to preview the forums with full membership privileges and participate in the question and answer sessions with Deaver and other guests.

In addition to Deaver, upcoming Backspace guests include literary agents Kristin Nelson and Nick Ellison, literary fiction author and managing editor of the journal Night Train" Susan Henderson, and authors Neil Gaiman, Barry Eisler, Rick Riordan, Raelynn Hillhouse, and Robert Crais.

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