Six published crime writers unveil the mysteries of writing and publishing in today's evolving marketplace. -- Panelists include: Bernadette Pajer, Mike Lawson, Charles Philipp Martin, Waverly Fitzgerald, Judy Dailey, and Leslie Budewitz.

'Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders' spans the recent past to the future, and follows Eric Jeffers from age 17 to old age. Eric's journey to the Dump, a utopian community created by a gay black millionaire, delves into the territory of pornography-as-literature or, as Delany calls it, "pornatopia."

Esquith offers words of wisdom, inspiring stories, and useful in-class advice: encouragement to new teachers to see through difficult early years, advice on mid-career classroom building, and novel ideas for how longtime educators can put their expertise to work.

In 1905, an uncanny 14-month curse manifests in Princeton and affects the town's elite -- including Woodrow Wilson, the president of Princeton University, and the prominent Slades of Crosswicks. After Annabel Slade is seduced and abducted from her wedding by a dangerously compelling man, escalating events of violence and madness based in secrets and hypocrisy are unleashed in the community. -- When the bride's brother sets out to find her, his path will cross: Grover Cleveland, soon-to-be commander in chief Woodrow Wilson, the young Socialist idealist Upton Sinclair, Jack London and Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain - all plagued by "accursed" visions. -- Oates is the author of the national bestsellers 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' 'Blonde' and 'The Falls.' She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She is the 2010 recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 'NOS4A2', a woman with a talent for finding lost things must confront a monster from her past: a man in a 1938 Rolls Royce that allows him to slip between our world and a horrifying place called "Christmasland." Victoria managed to escape his clutches as a child. Will her son be able to do the same? -- Hill's previous novel, 'Horns', was released as a feature film starring Daniel Radcliffe. Hill also writes a Lovecraftian comic series, "Locke and Key," with Gabriel Rodriguez.

Do you love zombies? Seattle-based writer and musician Isaac Marion answers questions about his book "Warm Bodies," upon which the zombie romance film is based.

Memoirist Jeannette Walls reads from her latest book. -- "The Silver Star' tells the story of 12-year-old Bean and 15-year-old Liz who are abandoned by their mother Charlotte, a would-be actress/singer in 1970 California.

Meet the cast of characters in Carl Hiaasen's comic tale of Florida crime: an ex-cop, a human arm in the freezer, the twitchy widow of the arm's owner, a kinky coroner, a voodoo witch and the eponymous Bad Monkey.

Meet Johnathan Sundstrom, executive chef and owner of Seattle's Lark restaurant, and learn about his work with Jared Stoneberg to create the community-supported Lark cookbook through crowd-sourced funding. -- Sundstrom and Stoneberg worked with an entirely local Pacific Northwest crew of photographers, writers, designer and printer to publish both print and digital versions of the cookbook. Beautifully photographed and designed, 'Lark: Cooking Against the Grain' represents an innovative self-publishing model that creates new ways for the home cook to experience print and digital content. -- Sundstrom opened Lark, an artisan-focused restaurant, on Seattle's Capitol Hill in 2003. He was named “Best Chef Northwest” by the James Beard Foundation in 2007.

Seattle Times reporter Sandi Doughton tells about scientists working to understand the way the earth moves and describes what patterns can be identified and how prepared (or not) people are. -- Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. A quake will happen -- in fact it's overdue. When, where and just how big will The Big One be? -- Doughton has covered Los Alamos National Laboratory and its programs in nuclear weapons, Star Wars anti-ballistic missile systems, laser fusion, and basic physics. She has written about the environment, health, and medicine at newspapers in Santa Fe and Tacoma, and currently writes about science for The Seattle Times.