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While an article in the UK-based The Bookseller by staffer Alison Bone doesn’t add much to what we already know about the burgeoning phenomenon of blogging about books, it does mention crime fiction in general and January Magazine contributing editors Sarah Weinman and Ali Karim in particular.
Penguin published Nick Stone’s début crime novel Mr. Clarinet earlier this year, and editor Beverley Cousins says the buzz which built around it started in the online crime community. “Mr. Clarinet was taken up by Ali Karim, who reviews for a number of crime sites. He said it was the best thing since Thomas Harris and fired emails [sic] off to all the sites. He wrote reviews for them all and I just watched Mr. Clarinet go up and up on Amazon. We definitely saw an uplift in it. And then collectors got in on it--Goldsborough [sic] Books ordered 300 copies, which is pretty unheard of for a début author.”
The full article in The Bookseller can be found here.
While an article in the UK-based The Bookseller by staffer Alison Bone doesn’t add much to what we already know about the burgeoning phenomenon of blogging about books, it does mention crime fiction in general and January Magazine contributing editors Sarah Weinman and Ali Karim in particular.
1 comment:
I was amused to find myself named in the peice.
I just loved Mr Clarinet, and became excited.
I felt good when it won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger a few weeks ago - a real coup for debut novelist Nick Stone.
I would recommned you starting this dark, dark work
Ali
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