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NYT story: PLOT THICKENS AS 900 WRITERS BATTLE AMAZON: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/business/media/plot-thickens-as-900-writers-battle-amazon.html?emc=eta1&_r=0. I am among the 909 authors who signed the open letter, composed by Douglas Preston, asking his...CAGE THE CHEETAH 2
Here is another take on the Amazon cheetah’s pursuit of the wounded gazelle, Hachette. Much of what Wolff has to say is true, though I think his criticisms of traditional publishers is a little too harsh. The publishing industry has never been as...CAGE THE CHEETAH
Jeff Bezos has said that Amazon should go after vulnerable publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle.” It’s time to cage the cheetah.
THE LONGEST ROAD OUT IN PAPERBACK.
With the paperback of The Longest Road launched today (May 13), it seems a good time for a little reflection. I’ve been thinking a lot about two questions I put to the eighty-odd people I interviewed on the trip: “What holds a country as vast and diverse as the United...REVIVALS
The reissue of my 1996 crime novel, Equation for Evil, by Bourbon Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, comes out Tuesday, Feb.4. Please see my post of September 16, 2013, for a few more details. In the same vein, Lyons Press, a division of Globe-Pequot...DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN
I recently received this e-mail from a limo service I use for business travel. Another wave goodbye in the long goodbye to print journalism. So long to ink on your fingers, the crinkle and crackle and smell of newsprint paper, the thud of the Sunday edition hitting...TUSCON EVENT
It’s always gratifying for an author on a speaking tour to fill a ballroom. More than 300 people attended the Friends of Saddlebrooke Libraries luncheon in Tuscon, Arizona, where I spoke about The Longest Road and read excerpts from the book on Friday, Nov. 22d....MY PERSONAL WALL, VETERANS DAY, 2013
Herewith, in memoriam, the names of comrades and the dates of their deaths. They are among the 14,844 Marines killed in Vietnam: LCPL. CARROLL FANKHAUSER 7/30/1965; PFC ROBERT FERNANDEZ, 5/20/1965; CPL. BRIAN GAUTHIER, 7/11/1965; LCPL. REYNALDO GUZMAN, 1/25/1966;...VIETNAM MARINES
And to fellow marines who fought in Vietnam: Let us remember that our war was the costliest, in terms of overall combat casualties, in our 238-year history: 101, 689 killed and wounded in battle, as compared with 87,940 in WWII.
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