By Nicole Inboden and Jody Travelstead

Author Spotlight: This week’s author spotlight will feature Riley Sager. Historically female authors would often assume male pen names to be taken more seriously and to sell more copies. Our first author spotlight focuses on the opposite, a male author who writes under a female pen name. Like those authors from years past, at first there was much secrecy around Riley’s true identity and even their gender. Despite being a yet to be published author, Sager’s debut book received rave reviews and advance acclaim. There was relatively little information concerning Riley’s private life in the public domain other than the fact that Sager works as an editor and doubles as a graphic designer. We now know that Riley Sager is the pseudonym for the author Todd Ritter. He has stated that "since we were looking for a new publisher, one could argue that editors would be willing to go with someone who had a clean slate, rather than a critically acclaimed author with a spotty sales record”. A native of Pennsylvania, he now lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Ritter has released six mystery thrillers as Sager and three novels under his real name. Check out his latest novel “The Only One Left” now at the Norris City Library! [Read more...]