On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR (Dutton/Penguin Publishers) will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.
“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”
I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And if you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering ad Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.
Hi Harvee Lau; Leighton is not a very famous writer here to us, I think that maybe only some people known about him; n his book "Dying Gasp", the third book in the series of Mario Silva investigations, I think that will be published in portuguese only in January of 2010. brgds Marco, keep on touch ... have a nice weekend.
I hate a lot of unnecessary dialogue, chatter that doesn't contribute to the plot, character development, or atmosphere. Authors sometimes can't help themselves when they make their characters gab on and on about nothing of consequence to the book and of little interest to the reader. Page padding, it seems like. Get on with it, I think, every time I come across this.
Hi, Harvee. Actually I do not know so much about Japanese authors...But I know best sellers. Miyuki Miyabe is famous among all generations. She writes mystery, contemporary novels and 'Jidai-mono' (Samurai period novels). Keigo Higashino is another best selling mystery author. Kaori Ekuni is well known among female readers because of her modern style to describe modern Japanese women.
Once I have got 'a list of 100 Japanese writers to read' from the first editor who helped Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen to publish. I'm gonna take a look at that list after I finish to read 'Shantaram' (this is what I'm struggling with right now).
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Dear Book Lover:On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR (Dutton/Penguin Publishers) will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.
“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”
I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And if you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering ad Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.
Peace & Light,
Bernice L. McFadden
brgds Marco
Here's your comment on my post dated July 14th,
I hate a lot of unnecessary dialogue, chatter that doesn't contribute to the plot, character development, or atmosphere. Authors sometimes can't help themselves when they make their characters gab on and on about nothing of consequence to the book and of little interest to the reader. Page padding, it seems like. Get on with it, I think, every time I come across this.
I would like to quote it in my book.
Thanks,
Charley
Did you like Amitav Ghosh? I have not read anything by him sadly!
Let me know, I will surely think o buying Sea of Poppies if you liked it!
George
Once I have got 'a list of 100 Japanese writers to read' from the first editor who helped Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen to publish. I'm gonna take a look at that list after I finish to read 'Shantaram' (this is what I'm struggling with right now).
Miyuki
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