Monthly Archives: August 2006

Starbucks selling books

Though I’m in the vast minority among writers, I’ve never been very fond of Starbucks (probably due to past criticism and controversy). However, the coffee company will be selling Mitch Albom’s newest novel, For One More Day, in its stores this autumn – and it looks like that’s going to be giving some major publicity to the book.

Mitch is already well-known among many readers for his first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, which sold over eight million copies.

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Kite Runner gets reading group vote

Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling story of a boy growing up in 1970s Kabul, The Kite Runner, has been voted this year’s reading group book of the year.

Read the full story on Guardian Unlimited Books.

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Finally, an update!

It’s summer, the season of being lazy. Really, even that isn’t a good enough explination for the lack of updates on WN, but I’ll do my very best too see that it doesn’t happen again.

So, a quick overview of what’s happened since the last update:

- Well-known novelists Stephen King and John said they’re hoping J.K. Rowling doesn’t kill off Harry in the seventh and final book in her series. Read the story…

- Fantasy author David Gemmell died at the age of 57. Read the story…

- The Associated Press has a story suggesting that the craze for The Da Vinci Code (and similar novels released since) may finally be slowing down. Read the story…

There were some books released since the last update, too.

On July 25th: The Messenger by Daniel Silva, Dead Wrong by J.A. Jance, and The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan.

On July 31st: Judge & Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross.

On August 1st: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist.

And some news regarding writing websites:

- Inkify has a new temporary black design.
- “David Wellington has the first chapter of his new, free serial novel Frostbite up.” View the website here. Thanks to Keren for submitting that.

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