There has been an interesting conversation at Book Market Ning Social Network concerning virtual book tours. An author was interested in finding out whether virtual book tours worked well as marketing tools and whether they really sold books. I’m sure everyone else was wondering the very same thing. We get the same question at Pump [...]
29
Jul
Book Tour is a Web feature and podcast. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work. Amanda Ripley’s new book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why, is the thinking person’s manual for getting out alive.
In moments of total disaster - plane [...]
29
Jul
Tour is a Web feature and podcast. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work. Everyone loves a dog story (at least, everyone should), and everyone loves an author who, after decades of laboring in obscurity, hits it big with his very first novel.
The New [...]
25
Jul
The ship of the desert beckons one and all. Life in Rajasthan is simply unbelievable without this faithful creature and it seems to completely mingle with its surroundings. As hues and hues of village folk descend on the small hamlet of Pushkar, the air is permeated with the colors of life. In the Hindu month [...]
25
Jul
Time author Jeanne Reeder’s heroine is a forensic psychologist (and part time CIA operative) named Charly. As her name suggests, Charly is a thoroughly modern Western woman — equipped mentally and physically to meet whatever life offers up, and then some. Raised in Alaska by a frontiersman-like father who taught survival as a matter of [...]
23
Jul
India. An eastern exotica, which mesmerizes with her landscapes spelling magic and yet more magic. Her flora and fauna are a discovery in themselves with each new species rearing its head every now and then. The landscapes are a visual delight for the adventure seekers as well as the nature lovers and are widely sought [...]
23
Jul
Amanda Ripley’s new book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes — And Why, is the thinking person’s manual for getting out alive. In moments of total disaster — plane crashes or terrorist attacks — something happens in our brains that affects the way we think. We behave differently, often irrationally. Consider the World Trade [...]
20
Jul
Author Dennis Hensley’s book tour last year was expensive and exhausting. With no backing from his publisher, Hensley paid for the 28-city tour himself. He crisscrossed the country in a bus, crashing on friends’ and acquaintances’ couches.
Hensley is on tour again this week, but this promotional outing is quite different from last year’s. He’s hitting [...]
16
Jul
The thoughts and motives of the Sept. 11 hijackers seem to be irresistible fodder to a certain type of novelist, including Andre Dubus III, who’s best known for House of Sand and Fog. That novel was a National Book Award finalist and was later adapted into a 2003 Oscar-nominated film.
In the manner of his earlier [...]
15
Jul
Alan Furst was inspired to start writing historical spy fiction while listening to a vintage recording of Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. Furst closed his eyes and says he was suddenly transported to a Parisian cafe on the eve of World War II. He could taste the soft burn of the cognac and smell the cigarettes, [...]
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