Monthly Archives September 2005

Dayne Sherman, author of Welcome to the Fallen Paradise, is a Louisiana native who evacuated just before Hurricane Katrina hit.

My cohorts over at Crimescene recently launched a new case if you want to get in on the action.

If book deals are any indication, then we should all snatch away Grandma’s knitting needles and take up the hobby ourselves.

This is a little self-serving, but hey, I gotta get the sales. Gots to get paid. So be sure to pick up the October 2005 issue of Sync.

The hardest working man in the lit blog business, Dan Wickett over at The Emerging Writers Network has a new interview posted.

You might remember John’s call for submissions from geek authors. Now, from the great Maud Newton,

Maybe my hero William Faulkner just ain’t what America wants. Seems like Oprah’s touch is back. Publishers Weekly is reporting that Vintage announced 85,000 copies of James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces since Oprah’s endorsement was announced 4 days ago.

I’m moving at this week, so please bear with me if there are fewer posts than usual.

From Bookninja, I learned about this great article that details the sometimes bitter and contentious relationship between CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.

I recently mentioned Matt Bondurant’s great story, Telemetry in the new issue of Glimmertrain.

This was on all the book blogs last week during our power outage, but if you happened to miss the news,

There were a couple of interesting book deals that caught my eye last week.

–Our pals at MacAdam/Cage locked up Marshall Karp’s The Rabbit Factory which centers around a series of murders targeted toward a California theme park.