From a New York Times Inside the Best-Seller List column by Elisabeth Egan headlined “Julie Bartz Wrote a Thriller. Then She Found Her Voice.”:

If your book is as buzzy as Julia Bartz’s debut thriller, “The Writing Retreat,” you know what’s in your future: Podiums. Microphones. Even worse, lavalier mics! And of course: people in folding chairs, quizzically wrinkling their foreheads.