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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
From Nicholas Sparks’ recent interview with Entertainment Weekly:
But if there’s one thing that will wear the man down, it’s this nagging suggestion that he writes romances. ”Would Tom Clancy go to a legal thriller writers’ convention?” he asks in the patient tone one might assume with a naughty toddler. ”Would you say ‘noted travel writer [...]
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Some people bet on sports. Apparently some bet on literature. USA Today says:
A surprising number of bettors correctly chose French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio to win the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature — leading the award jury to suspect a leak.
Yes, I know the point of the story is that someone leaked [...]
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Fabulous author Diana Holquist created a book trailer video for my upcoming release, HOT AS HELL. I love it because it’s clever and different. Here it is:
Now it’s your turn. Go buy Diana’s newest release, HUNGRY FOR MORE, and pre-order HOT AS HELL.
I’m willing to beg…
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
I’ve been quiet because I’ve actually been in Seattle/Bainbridge Island since last Thursday. For the first few nights we stayed in the guesthouse of NYT bestselling author Susan Wiggs on Bainbridge Island, one of the most stunning places in the U.S. We later ventured over to Seattle and stayed there while taking in [...]
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
In order to provide you with a completely distorted view of what authors earn, here’s a link from Forbes. I’m thinking these numbers are educated guesses. Publishers Lunch agrees with me on that and repackages the facts from Forbes this way:
Forbes has updated their annual guesses on the earnings of the most successful [...]
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
I have been toying with buying the book WHILE THEY SLEPT . It’s one of those “true stories about a shocking crime” delivered in a literary way…or so I’ve read.
This isn’t the first book by Harrison to grab my attention. A few years ago I stumbled across one of her memoirs, [...]
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Got this in the mail:
It’s like a textbook for the Brotherhood series. Not sure where to start reading it. Do I skip to the never-before-seen short story? Look up things I want to know? Not sure.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
I read reference books but rarely read writing “how to” books. The this is how you must write stuff paralyzes me. The reference books I read deal more with specific subject matters. For example, if I were writing about a trainwreck I’d read a true account of a trainwreck and books about [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Just got the very good news that TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT is going back for a second printing…and it hasn’t even officially released yet! Wahoo!!
What does this mean for you? Well, see, this can only be interpreted to mean the anthology is awesome, selling like mad and that you should go [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
This is the cover for Jayne Ann Krentz’s upcoming book, RUNNING HOT:
Maybe it’s the guy. Dunno. But for some reason this strikes me as a very different kind of Krentz cover.
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