Want to give the children in your life the gift that keeps on giving? Give them the gift of failure. Jessica Lahey, New York Times columnist and Atlantic Magazine contributor tells you how to teach children responsibility, organization, manners, restraint, and foresight. Lahey offers encouragement and targeted advice. It’s easier than you might think!

Listen in as we call Chris Moore to get the scoop on Secondhand Souls, the upcoming sequel to A Dirty Job. Chris makes us feel a little better about eavesdropping, tells us how reading westerns leads to writing comedy, and clues us in that clouds are the new freezers. Listen and learn! Got a question for Chris? Ask and tag it with #MoreChrisMoore on his Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/theauthorguy) or on Twitter by August 12th and listen for your answer when Chris returns to HarperAudio Presents on August 31st.

Hear Elizabeth Lowell, author of the new novel, Perfect Touch, talk about how it was her husband who encouraged her to write her first romance novel (and how she came to the name ‘Elizabeth Lowell’), her belief that you are never through learning in life, how she hope her readers feel renewed vs. ‘chewed’, and the challenge of the ‘great sagging middle’ of every novel.

Enjoy an excerpt of GO SET A WATCHMAN, written by Harper Lee and narrated by Reese Witherspoon. In this excerpt Jean Louise Finch, commonly known as Scout, and Henry (Hank) Clinton, are driving to Finch’s landing. Hank’s mention of their old friend, Dill, prompts Scout to recall events of a summer long ago.

Jill Morrow talks about her novel, Newport: “set in the 1920’s and a skillful alchemy of social satire, dark humor, and finely drawn characters.

Listen to an excerpt of The Minority Report, the short story published in 1956 and adapted into a Steven Spielberg feature film in 2002, questions the concept of free will in a society whose crime-free ideal supports incarcerating people based on the prediction of future crimes.

David Nicholl’s new novel, US, received rave reviews in People, O Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Time, and more and is now available in paperback. Hear Nicholls tell us how he wanted to write a male character that was distinct from his leading character in his previous, very popular novel, ONE DAY, his idea of a perfect vacation, and the books he would take to a desert island. Also in this episode: an audiobook excerpt, performed by Olivier Award winning actor David Haig.

Meg Cabot on why she still feels like an outsider and what she does to diminish anxiety (it involves writing, but not the way you might think), why she’ll have an anniversary party rather than renew her wedding vows, and what Princess Mia is up to after all these years.

Hear bestselling author Susane Colasanti talk about her new book City Love, the story of sisterhood in NYC –three girls move in together for a summer of adventure, romantic love, and self-discovery. Susane tells us what a soulmate is – and isn’t, how the hope for a happy life got her through miserable years in high school, and the power of being exactly who you are.

Hear Margo Rabb, author of KISSING IN AMERICA, on why she starts each writing day by reading a poem, the importance of keeping a journal and how it’s more than OK to be a young adult writer.