.gif)
Wow, A lot has happened since I last wrote. First, I’ve received some positive feedback from three agents. All three emailed me on the same day (!) and asked to see my book proposal. It was very cool, but very unexpected. Two of them wanted exclusivity, meaning that they wanted to be the only ones…
Monthly Archives: May 2006
The Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies (1972: Kenrick)
Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies by Donald Kenrick Hardcover 256 pages (October 23, 1972) Publisher: Heinemann Educ. ISBN: 043582192X Donald Kenrick and Grattan Puxon, “Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies” (New York: Basic Books, 1972) An excellent history classic about the story, travels, persecution, and demise of Europe’s Gypsies. It covers the shocking realistic history of what happened…
May 22 Book Releases Coming Soon
These are the following novels that will be in stores May 22, or in your home sooner if you pre-ordered online. At Risk Patricia Cornwell A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is…
The Hard Way By Lee Child Review
While romance novels are what I generally need I have started once again to read a few different genre of books. I decided to try Lee Child’s The Hard Way because I liked a previous novel from this talented author. Hard Way does try to keep you on the edge and guessing at most times…
Worth Reading?
I really enjoy reading. One of my favorite authors was Robin Cook. I would take the paperbacks with me on my long bus rides to work and they would make the trips seem faster and more pleasurable. However I began to lose my taste for them after I began to see a pattern. The…
Out Of Paper?
I hope that I am misunderstanding the situation with J.K. Rowling, but running out of paper? I hope that she was trying to be humorous when she wrote that. I can’t imagine that she was unable to get paper to write. Did she not realize that the kids would take her seriously and do…
The Spark of Cirque
Lyn Heward is a longtime executive with the show Cirque du Soleil and after watching the spark and energy of the show for so long she decided to write a book. It is semi-fictional and tells the story of a burnt out man who embraces Cirque. The Spark: Igniting the Creative Fire That Lives Within…
J.K Rowling Has Plenty of Paper
Earlier this week J.K. Rowling made the mistake of writing on her website that she was running out of paper to finish writing her seventh and last Harry Potter book. I guess fans didn’t want to hear such a thing because she was instantly flood with all the paper she will need for a while….
James Frye Part Fact Part Fiction
James Frye’s new novel “My Friend Leonard” is what he calls part fact and part fiction. He says he cannot call the book a work of pure fiction because some things did really happen in the book. James Frye was the author who last year rose to fame because Oprah endorsed his book “A Million…
Runner Removed By School Officials
The novel Runner by author Peter McPhee was removed from school shelves following the murder of a family by the 12 year old daughter. In the book their is a goth girl and this strikes the city too close to home since the child who killed her family seems to have fallen in with a…