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Jul.11.2011
I'm very happy to have received this review of Flesh and Grass from Maureen at Random Distractions. I'm also thrilled to announce that War on the Margins is a People's Book Prize finalist. It only takes a few minutes to register and vote for it, or any of the finalists you like.
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Jun.13.2011
At long last, the paperback edition is out in the US. This is after extensive editing, two proofreads (one after the paperback proof was out), moving house, tearing hair out, etc.
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Oct.20.2010
The paperback has ben out for a few weeks now. My online sales don't look too good, but it seems to be selling at Waterstones. I'm reaping the results of dogged Web marketing: reviews
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/126684575
http://jewwishes.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/jew-...
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Sep.06.2010
The paperback of War on the Margins will be out (in the UK only, I'm afraid) in mid-September. It has just been nominated for the autumn 2010 Peoples' Book Prize, which is very exciting! You can vote for it by clicking the link; it just takes a minute to register.
I revised the ms for Flesh...
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Jul.13.2010
Well, I still have no objectivity about my work. I put "Flesh and Grass" out there, for both Kindle and Smashwords, and got a lot of negative feedback. Readers didn't like my attempt at Colonial English, found it confusing, boring, etc. I wrote a short story in the same style for my...
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Jun.13.2010
Woo-hoo! Another good review! Jules' Book Reviews comes through! Duckworth is very busy this summer trying to find a new commissioning editor; I haven't heard from them directly, but as far as Amazon is concerned, the US paperback edition will be out at the end of August.
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Mar.22.2010
I'm astonished that Simon Savidge, of Savidge Reads, included War on the Margins in his roster of predictions for the Orange Prize Long List. It didn't make the list, but I'm honored.
I noticed that WOTM is listed on Amazon.co.uk in a future paperback edition, coming out in August. Thanks,...
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Mar.08.2010
My publisher didn't notify me, but War on the Margins, my first novel about the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII, is now available in the US as a Kindle edition. Text-to-speech is ENABLED. Any Kindle book can be downloaded to an iPhone or a PC. Check out the Web site!
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Feb.28.2010
After uploading my new book, Flesh and Grass, to Kindle, I did one of my regular Google searches on the protagonist's father, the Dutch colonial settler Pieter Plockhoy. I found a Dutch academic who had done his Ph.D. thesis on Plockhoy. We corresponded, and exchanged materials. I was shocked...
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Feb.06.2010
I am excited to announce the release of my new book, Flesh and Grass. It deals with the violent history of Colonial Delaware. It is narrated by the blind son of Pieter Plockhoy, the founder of an ill-fated Mennonite settlement in what is now Lewes, Delaware. The son, Cornelis, is gifted with an...
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Nov.16.2009
Thank you, Armenian Odar (aka Myrthe), my wonderful blogger fan in Yerevan, who reads large stacks of books and reviews them with great insight. I'm so pleased you saw fit to mention my book again in your blog today.
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Nov.13.2009
I'm thrilled that Lisa enjoyed the book. I'm very heartened by the obvious care and time she took over the review. I am very grateful for all the reviews the book has received, that people I don't know feel it's worth their time to read it and discuss it.
It is becoming an increasing source of...
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Nov.01.2009
War on the Margins was reviewed in the Daily Mail a few weeks ago (not in their online version; the print review is reproduced here). I'm happy their reviewer liked it, but now I feel I need to take pains to disassociate myself from any perceived link to their columnist's homophobia.
The book is...
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Sep.13.2009
The interview went very well; I was thrilled to be interviewed during Battle of Britain Week and to be sharing the stage with Louise Downie, Curator of Art at the Jersey Heritage archive, and author of "Don't Kiss Me; the Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore." This link http://www.bbc.co....
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Aug.24.2009
This morning I taped an interview with Sara Palmer, host of The Morning Show on BBC Radio Jersey. It should be broadcast in the near future. Sara has a terrific oldies show, punctuated with interviews:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0042rgw
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About Libby
I am a radiologist who was bored with work, and embarked on a ten-year odyssey to get an MA in Jewish Studies. After I independently published my thesis, a novel called War on the Margins, I aggressively marketed it on US and European blogs, and am happy to...
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ACLU
Doctors Without Borders
Amnesty International
Audubon
Americans for Peace Now
Libby’s Favorite Books
Oryx and Crake Burger's Daughter The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Kafka on the Shore Cat's Eye The Savage Detectives Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of...