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Life in a Vacuum

Sometimes we exist in a vacuum. By that I mean that often we have books that we get very excited about, for instance the upcoming Something Remains and Pilgrim in the Palace of Words, but despite our sales projections and how hard we work on the publicity campaign the public’s reaction to said books are sometimes not what we anticipated. Sometimes we love a book and the public and the critics don’t quite embrace it as much as we do. Or sometimes the enthusiasm for a book is overwhelming and it blows us away to the point that reprinting is necessary. It’s always nice when you our readers and the media like a book as much as we do. For instance The Third Eye by Mahtab Narsimhan. Last week, I wrote about The Third Eye winning the Silver Birch Award. And as promised here is a video interview with Mahtab discussing the Silver Birch, The Third Eye, and what she’s working on next.

Talking about the media, I would like to send a big shout out to Don Graves, mystery book columnist with the Hamilton Spectator, who continually provides insightful reviews of Canadian mysteries. Recently Don reviewed John Moss’ Grave Doubts - his second novel featuring the detective duo Quin and Morgan. Here’s a brief snippet from that review.

“Quin and Morgan are as quirky and dynamic a duo as there is out there fighting crime, exploring life and spinning solutions to life’s mysteries … Grave Doubts is writing that moves the mystery novel beyond the often trite label of genre fiction into crafted storytelling that delves into the energy and desperation behind actions that can both define and destroy lives.”

Click here to read the entire review.

Tags: Grave Doubts, John Moss, mahtab narsimhan, Pilgrim in the Palace of Words, Silver Birch, Something Remains, The Third Eye

About the author

Erin is a publicist for Dundurn Press. She reads a wide variety of books (maybe even too many!) and wields a vast amount of positively optimistic power over what should and shouldn't be done in the universe.