win a $250 Powell’s Card
and two $100 cards for your friends.
Powell’s Bookstore is running a neat contest.
You needn’t buy a thing — just sign up for one issue of their free e-mail newsletter. By the way, we get 25 cents for each new subscriber! The banner sign-up is a bit large for this text area, so I put it in the footer at the bottom of the page. If you use that banner to sign up for the newsletter, we get 25 cents and you get to enter this contest.
Your votes will decide who will wear this year’s Golden Galoshes.
Writes Powell’s, “So, was the best book you read last year an Oprah-recommended memoir about a recovering drug addict, or an Oprah-recommended, sixty-year-old novel about a severely dysfunctional Southern family? Did you savor the newest adventures of a young wizard, or the latest chronicles of a young wizard and his talking dragon? Was your favorite 2005 book about an Afghan boy who loves kites, or was it a reprint of a classic comic strip about a bald boy who gets tangled in kite-eating trees?”
“We really don’t know. But we’d like to. So enter the contest (after you sign up for the newsletter in the footer below, of course!). Voting ends February 1.”
Hmmmm … What an excuse to mention a famous author in our midst, Nancy Pickard, known here fondly as “Kansas.”
We first “outted” the modest Kansas in this January 9th story: “Kansas: SEX, VIOLENCE, EVIL?,” where you’ll find links to this famed mystery author’s many novels, as well as her touted book on writing, “Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path: The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment.”
OPEN THREAD! Talk books, Kansas, voting for certain books (!), whatever’s on your mind …
The official site of mystery author, Nancy Pickard. Take a look, we (well, I) just finished it tonight! Visit Nancy Pickard Mysteries.
Be one of the first to see the cover of Virgin of Small Plains.
Thanks, guys. And undying thanks to katiebird for my website. Plus, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. That’s just the first page. Wait til she links up to everything else.
but can’t figure out from your description, where or how to do so.
Went to the Powell’s page you linked, and there was no “footer” at the boottom of the page.
N or that I could find at the bottom of your story, if that’s what you meant.
I meant the FOOTER of this page … if you scroll down to the area just above the right-column RSS feed, etc. info, you’ll see the 480 x 60 pixels Powell’s ad to sign up for the newsletter.
THANKS!
I had to disable ad blocking in Norton Internet Security to get the banner (In case anyone else is having trouble finding it).
to kb that she use that nice comment from Susan Dunlap as a caption underneath your picture — you know, just so people aren’t misled by mere appearances. 😉
Hey it looks great. And kansas is so glamorous — I always imagine her in the cafe in grubbies like me. Now I’ll have to dress up.
You just can’t see the jeans below the sweater. 🙂
What a beautifully done site! WOW!
And Nancy is lovely looking. Very pretty outfit and setting too.
katiebird is doing a fantastic job. Next up is a website for her film editor brother-in-law who did the editing on “Capote.”
Very nice, katiebird! I’m planning to get my mother hooked on your books, kansas, she’s 88 and adores mysteries.
How nice! My own 89-year-old mom will be so pleased to hear this.
lol! We Heart DuctapeFatwa.
That’s the sweetest thing! A press release — wow!
You’re wonderful Ductape Fatwa.
He has his own wonderful news, you know. Ductape, are you going to share it here, too, please?
He does? What did I miss (I know — a whole day or two)
What Ductape?
Absolutely cool..and how unfair…to be teased with the new book and glowing reviews and we can’t get it until April. Would that be classified as torture?
I wondered why kansas didn’t have an official site….I have several sites saved with lists of her books and so on but this will be so much cooler because now I actually know the people involved.
I also think there should be a law about mentioning kansas/NP on the front page cause it usually makes me turn into a babbling idiot. Don’t I have a reputation here of sorts as a fairly cool headed person(when not doing blue rants)here and this simply blows it every time.
Whatt that excellent timing — glad you didn’t have to tell those unfortunates still using IE that there was yet another reason that they should switch to a better browser 🙂
And another soon-to-be-famous novelist, BT’s own BostonJoe. I finished reading Direct Actions last week and found it to be very entertaining. The subject matter is quite timely. Thanks for the great read BostonJoe.
And still another soon-to-be-famous novelist, Steggles. All I know so far is that he/she is working on the second book of a two-book contract for Random House, and that the books are thrillers.
I don’t hang around that much on other blogs but is normal to have an abundance of writers who hang out on certain blogs-like Bootrib?
And another thriller-very cool.
I’m wondering that, too, Choc.
Way cool Katiebird…and Kansas is a Babe!…who knew? I gotta get out more… :{)
Peace
Purrr. Do you know how nice it is to be called a “babe” at my age?
You’re welcome…I’ll even overlook the “3” in the cafe…for a smile.
I suspect we are not far apart when it comes to “age”, and imnsho, you’re only as old as you allow yourself to be…ala the old adage: old enough to know better, too young to care…:{)
Peace
I’m thinking “The Whole Truth”. Any thoughts or recommendations for a beginner?
I think the Whole Truth is a fantastic book — and a great start for reading her books.
The Jenny Cain series are just as great, although a completely different setting and atmosphere. I was in a complete panic when that series ended wondering if the writer of those books was going to fade away or something. Luckily for me my panic was averted with the next great series. But I still miss Jenny.
O I agree about Jenny Cain — She and her books are terrific and I felt the same way when the series ended.
I don’t know, Alma … but, although this is to promote our beloved Powell’s too, I should point out that you can get brand-new copies of Nancy’s books at Overstock.com … I checked a couple weeks ago and they had almost every one of her books brand new, and at an incredible savings.
I’d second the recommendation the Truth trilogy (The Whole Truth, Ring of Truth, The Truth Hurts).