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moushumi-chakrabarty's picture
Mar.02.2012
Marketing efforts for 'Threshold' ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007C3QHBE ) still on. Day 2 of the promo offer on Amazon. So far, I'm satisfied with the results. Now, I'm no marketing expert, so it's a slow progress. Let me give you a recap of yesterday's results.Since my free promo,...
matt-beynon-rees's picture
Apr.28.2011
I have observed in this space before that author bios tend to be short on interesting detail and overfull of prize lists. Philip Roth, for example, doesn’t seem to exist, according to his bio. He doesn’t live anywhere, nor was he born. He simply receives prizes. This week I’m reading a very good...
nancybrady's picture
Feb.02.2010
As February begins, I am reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel  Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.  In fact, I will probably finish it later today. It is definitely a different read than the other books I read in January. (As an aside, I resolved to read more books than last...
nancybrady's picture
Jan.11.2010
It's January and therefore, I read and hibernate.  I've said this before, and it's true that I start stocking and stacking up books to read.  I've done so, too. Past reads (since the first of the year) include Sue Grafton's U is for Undertow, GrahamWalker's autobiography, Unsettled, and Patricia...
matt-beynon-rees's picture
May.24.2009
Caro Ramsay’s debut “Absolution” is one of the most disturbing thrillers you’ll ever read. It features a beautiful woman who’s the victim of an acid attack and a series of disembowelments in the “Crucifixion killings” of young women. Caro’s also from one of the roughest neighborhoods of Glasgow,...