More Mailer

I seem to be missing Norman Mailer today. So here's another favorite quotation.

“Being a man is the continuing battle of one’s life, and one loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.”
-N.M.

The Squeeze

This article, from Yahoo news, seems like bad news all around.

Here's the opening....

NEW YORK - The latest National Endowment for the Arts report draws on a variety of sources, public and private, and essentially reaches one conclusion: Americans are reading less.

The 99-page study, "To Read or Not to Read," is being released Monday as a follow-up to a 2004 NEA survey, "Reading at Risk," that found an increasing number of adult Americans were not even reading one book a year (bold mine).

Norman Mailer, R.I.P.

"You don't really know a woman until you meet her in court.”
--Norman Mailer

The Crime Writer/I See You Charts Update

The Crime Writer debuted in the US as an LA Times Top 10 bestseller.

As I See You, it spent 11 weeks on the Ireland bestseller list, 5 of those in the top ten.
4 weeks on the bestseller list in the UK.
4 weeks on the bestseller list in Australia.

So a great start for the English territories. Still to come: France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Spain, Japan, Israel, Poland, and more.

I feel fortunate to have such a great group of readers, librarians, sales reps, and editors.