tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44697435445080675752024-02-19T03:31:15.555-05:00The Permanent Press BlogThe Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-18274041474189512192014-05-28T11:09:00.003-04:002014-05-28T11:11:34.269-04:00<h3>
The Cockeyed Pessimist: "Who's afraid of Amazon.com?"</h3>
Publisher Martin Shepard weighs in on the hot Amazon debate, in his latest editorial on his blog "The Cockeyed Pessimist"<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf38X1K-e-JSwP5SD6VPB5YuRBI8pyZWigpVzt4O8e9PW7OZplin4_3tgbJ8Emm3hTUJgM_lwWA0kDm9uuXLsSF56cE3YZ-noL300PSuIdz6-Dp_TAvM94uVoNxVDrBDQUYJxINGVN_sk/s220/Marty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="My Photo" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf38X1K-e-JSwP5SD6VPB5YuRBI8pyZWigpVzt4O8e9PW7OZplin4_3tgbJ8Emm3hTUJgM_lwWA0kDm9uuXLsSF56cE3YZ-noL300PSuIdz6-Dp_TAvM94uVoNxVDrBDQUYJxINGVN_sk/s220/Marty.jpg" /></a>"On May 24, The New York Times ran a page one story “As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish.” In their alarmist zeal reporters David Streitfeld and Melissa Eddy conjure the dreadful threat that Amazon has inflicted upon the “literary world,” causing a kerfuffle of rage and fear as exemplified by a dispute between the electronic superstore and one of the most robust publishers in the Western World. Their first paragraph states “Amazon’s power over the publishing and bookselling industries is unrivaled in the modern era. Now it has started wielding its might in a more brazen way than ever before.” Their second paragraph states that “The literary community is fearful and outraged—and practically begging for government intervention.” They then cite three publishers, none of which I would consider great examples of the “literary” community—or even the larger community of book publishers to prove their thesis. <br />
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As far as this literary publisher is concerned this article is poppycock..."<br />
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<br />The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-73342931963003027132014-05-07T10:39:00.001-04:002014-05-07T10:39:08.115-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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CHRIS KNOPF HAS ADVICE FOR WRITERS SEEKING MORE SALES AS THE PERMANENT PRESSOPENS ITS BLOG TO OUR PARTNER.</h3>
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When asked the difference between sales and marketing, I usually say that sales are something you do face to face, like the Fuller Brush man showing up at a person’s door and showing his wares. Or a stock broker passing along a tip, leading to a million dollar investment. No matter the scale, the exchange is intimate and personal. Marketing is what you do when the number of people you need to reach is too large to afford a one-on-one engagement. So you have to call upon intermediaries to convey your selling story, and many times, complete the sale. Though not always. Often, the sale occurs at another place and time. So how do you know if your efforts through intermediaries are actually responsible for the ultimate sale? Short answer to a big question: You don’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In theory, then, the more you can have your marketing resemble the intimacy, and presumably the effectiveness, of a one-on-one sale, the better. Right? Not necessarily.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If that were true, we wouldn’t have advertising and publicity, all marketing would be delivered through what we call “direct”, such as direct mail and infomercials. But it turns out that most people don’t actually like to be sold directly. They’d rather come to their buying decisions without the pressure and confrontation inherent in a direct sales pitch, and by extension, a direct marketing appeal. They don’t call it junk mail for nothing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So what we’re stuck with, if we want to sell a product or service, is to find a mixture of direct selling and indirect marketing (also known as branding) that exploits the advantages of both in a balanced and mutually reinforcing way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is why the advent of digital communications has the world of sales and marketing in a tizzy. For the first time in history, it’s possible to combine the transactional power of direct sales/marketing with the indirect benefits of agreeable engagement (in other words branding) in a single medium. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Meet Amazon. They sell everything these days, but they got their start selling books, and now they’re really, really good at it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Whether or not physical book stores will ever disappear (I don’t think they will, but that’s another essay) or Amazon perpetuates its hegemony, digital marketing is where the action is. So, while authors may decry the fact that promoting their books now largely falls on their shoulders (even major best sellers – ask them how many miles they log a year and how many talks they give), we’ve never had more ways to manage the task, giving us at least a fighting chance when competing with the rich, powerful and established. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You can find lots of advice on how to do this online and in physical books, but let me offer here a broader perspective. When one of our own, William Gibson, popularized the term “cyberspace” in the 1980s, I wonder if he knew how accurately he was predicting the future. When you go online, whether it’s on a desktop or laptop computer, or mobile device, you are entering a world that is different from the one we live in offline in one crucial way. <i>Everything in cyberspace is connected</i>. Intimately, immediately, accessibly and permanently.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So when authors ask me if it’s worth writing a blog I say, Yes. Send out emails? Yes. Start an online newsletter? Yes. Get on review sites? Yes. Reviewer blogs? Yes. Launch a website, get on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, join online discussion groups, get reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and Library Thing, the answer is yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is it possible to do all these things, well, and write books and hold down your day job? No. Nonetheless, the more online things you can do the better, because of another concept in our business known as “integrated marketing”. It’s a bit of a misnomer, but the idea is that a message is amplified considerably by appearing in different media channels. So, if people see the Geico gecko on a billboard, on TV, in a print ad or a rich media banner ad, the ultimate impact is greater than the sum of the individual messages. Likewise, if you’re in a blog, write a blog, get reviewed by your local paper, score a reading at a regional writers conference (that puts out an online newsletter), rack up reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, optimize your website with keywords connected to your book’s theme, etc., the sum total is greater than appearing in any individual outlet could possibly achieve.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because in cyberspace, <i>everything is connected</i>. And the connectors are these clever little things that roam the Internet like voracious bacterium called Google Bots. They feed on semantic relationships and your job is to make a feast out of you as a writer and the books you write. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris <a href="mailto:chrisknopf@mintz-hoke.com">chrisknopf@mintz-hoke.com</a><br />
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-68059688231171443952014-04-09T12:38:00.001-04:002014-04-09T12:38:59.851-04:00<h3>
Two Finalists in the "Best First Novel" category for the 2014 International Thriller Writer Awards!</h3>
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Fabulous news! Gwen Florio’s MONTANA and JJ Hensley’s RESOLVE have each been shortlisted for 2014 ITW Thriller Award for Best 1st Novel. Continues the Permanent Press mystery/thriller award-winning streak following Howard Owen’s Hammett, Jared Terrell’s Shamus shortlisting, last year’s Len Rosen Edgar and McCavity and Chris Knopf's Nero. </div>
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-24458577656324828642014-03-26T17:13:00.002-04:002014-03-28T10:21:33.172-04:00<h3>
OUR 2014 LINEUP SO FAR!</h3>
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Hello Permament Press friends, we're nearly a third of the way through 2014 and we couldn't be happier with our latest lineup of exciting thrillers, perplexing mysteries, hilarious comedies, and thought-provoking literary gems.</div>
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Take a look at our current roster, see what reviewers are saying, and enjoy a quick look at what's to come over the next few months!</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">“Woollett impressively captures the excruciating joy and pain of young love, its nymph-like virtue but also sensual power, as body and soul move on their fateful journey from innocence to experience” </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">—</span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dan's Papers</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Robert Johnson's first novel tackles an issue that most in the media, the arts, and entertainment industry—even the environmental community—are afraid to discuss directly: overpopulation. The gravity of the issues is woven into the story with plenty of colorful characters, gallows humor and a suspenseful plot that unravels across continents, making for an entertaining and thought-provoking debut." </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">—</span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">New York Journal of Books</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Matthew Hristahalois is a not-so-scholarly scholar. He's obsessed with the "Hooker with a Heart of Gold" character that keeps turning up in movies like<i> Pretty Woman</i> and <i>The Hangover</i> - the beautiful and kind fallen woman who can only be saved by Prince Charming. Matthew wins a post-doc to see if real fallen women can be saved by a good man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>My Lady of the Bog</i> follows the American anthropologist, Xander Donne, as he seeks to unravel the ultimate "cold case": that of a beautiful young woman found in an English bog, her nude body pinned down with stakes. Though she's thought at first to be a recent murder victim, Donne identifies her as an ancient sacrifice, wondrously preserved by the bog's airless waters, and dead for 700 years!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Anarchist, a historical novel, dramatizes the interplay of forces leading to the assassination of an American president at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Through linking first-person narratives, the novel explores the interrelated lives of fictional as well as historical figures, mainly Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, William McKinley and McKinley's assassin Leon Czolgosz, at a turbulent time in American history, a time of protests, hangings, hunger riots, strikes, bombings and massacres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It's 1956. A plane bearing a mysterious cargo takes off from a small airport outside Los Angeles and disappears into a raging storm. Nearly 60 years later, while flying over California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, retired military assassin-turned-civilian flight instructor and would-be Buddhist Cordell Logan catches a glint of sunlight on metal and spots what appears to be an aircraft wreckage. His life will never be the same.</span></div>
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All of our novels are available in hardcover and ebook format, and can be purchased from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Baker & Taylor, or directly from us at www.thepermanentpress.com</div>
The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-2039158032493694322014-01-29T11:23:00.002-05:002014-01-29T11:24:05.628-05:00<h3>
New Interview with RAIN DOGS author Baron R. Birtcher</h3>
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Claymore award finalist Baron Birtcher has been interviewed by Clay Stafford, founder of the Killer Nashville mystery conference.</div>
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-41513891943267362032014-01-10T12:21:00.000-05:002014-01-10T12:49:26.962-05:00<h3>
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2013 List-Toppers!</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2013 has been a great year for us at The Permanent Press, with many of our titles landing spots on several different "best of" lists!</span></div>
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Chris Knopf's <i>CRIES OF THE LOST</i> (sequel to the Nero Award winning <i>DEAD ANYWAY</i>) was named one of the <a href="http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2013/11/best-of/best-books-2013-mystery/"><span style="color: blue;">Top 5 Mysteries of 2013 by Library Journal.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Leonard Rosen's <i>THE TENTH WITNESS</i> (the highly anticipated prequel to the Edgar Award finalist <i>ALL CRY CHAOS</i>) made </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And our 2011 title <i>THE DOUBLE LIFE OF ALFRED BUBER</i> by David Schmahmann was named the winner of the<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://dactylreview.com/2013/12/24/dactyl-foundation-literary-fiction-award-2013/"><span style="color: blue;">Dactyl Foundation 2013 Literary Fiction Award!</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Free .pdf copies of <i>ALFRED BUBER </i>available now for a limited time. See <a href="http://thecockeyedpessimist.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-offer-you-cant-refuse-i-hope-back-in.html"><span style="color: blue;">Marty's blog</span></a> for more details.</span></div>
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Praise for The Tenth Witness in Kirkus Reviews magazine!</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Years before the events of Henri Poincaré’s striking debut (<em>All Cry Chaos</em>, 2011),
the future Interpol agent, now a consulting engineer, gets dragged into an
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lloyds of London, which was the insurer for the HMS <em>Lutine </em>when it sank off
the Dutch coast in 1799, think it’s high time they recovered their settlement
by plundering the boat, which is legally theirs, for its cargo of gold.
Poincaré and his partner, Alec Chin, have successfully bid to construct a
diving platform to be used in the operation. But Poincaré gets seriously
redirected when he meets Liesel Kraus, a guide who pulls him out of the coastal
mud flats and insists that he escort her to her brother Anselm’s birthday party
to fend off the Bayer heir Anselm’s fixed her up with. Romance blossoms between
Liesel and Poincaré, along with dark suspicions about the Kraus family’s steel
empire, when Anselm, intent on jumping into the infant market for personal
computers by recycling the precious metals used in their manufacture, engages
Poincaré to develop a chemical process for isolating those metals. If Anselm
and Liesel’s father, Otto, was really a Schindler-style hero during the war, as
an affidavit signed by 10 concentration-camp survivors attests, then why are
the signatories suddenly dying of heart attacks? And why is Liesel’s godfather,
Viktor Schmidt, so eager to shut down Poincaré’s investigation into this case
that isn’t even a case? Torn between his love for Liesel and his need to learn the
truth about her family, Poincaré makes a series of discoveries that won’t
surprise genre fans or anyone who stayed awake during history class.</span><br />
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It's been a busy Summer here at The Permanent Press. Here's what critics are saying about some of out biggest new releases:</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">"Narrator Willie, who charmed readers in Oregon Hill (2012), is a hard drinking, old-style newsman who still takes notes with pen and pad and takes his chances with the powers-that-be to get at the truth. A well-plotted mystery elevated above the norm by Owen's mastery of character development and his creation of a compelling hero." <i>--Booklist</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">"Against a backdrop of advertising-suppressed investigative print journalism, Owen uses race and class, coupled with a Faulkner-ian family tragedy, to provide a powerful narrative engine. While the complex noir drama keeps the pages turning, the murderer and motivation complete the storyline perfectly. A quick-flowing crime drama that will have fans eager for Willie Black to right another injustice." <i>--Kirkus</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">"A modern noir mystery with convincing characters, evocative locations, and a wonderful feel for the changing world of news, ,</span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The Philadelphia Quarry</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> offers a plot that's neither overly complex nor too simple, while exploring the relationships of parents and children through families rich and poor, black and white, and in-between." -<i>-Café Libre</i></span></div>
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<b>PAINT THE BIRD - Georgeann Packard</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">"The story reads like a prose poem. Emotional significance comes across in the sparsely told daily machinations of the lives of a few intentionally but tenuously connected New Yorkers. Packard (Fall Asleep Forgetting) weaves a dreamy yet well-paced narrative with richly developed characters who gradually come to discover that life is always going on, whether they're watching or not." --Publishers Weekly</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">"Highlighting a unique intersection of the gay, artistic, and religious communities, Packard challenges readers to look closely at their beliefs about death, sexuality, and the constructs of family. Rich descriptions of art and overt sensuality lend beauty to this provocative story of loss and hope." --Booklist</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">"Combining vivid scenes, sympathetic characters, and graphic descriptions, Birtcher catapults readers to the center of the action." ---Entertainment Realm (2013 Summer Book Picks)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">"</span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19px;">Rain Dogs</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> is a is a thriller with genuine shocks and chills. A combination of gritty realism and lyrically descriptive prose draws the reader in. The danger is plausible and palpable. But an anchor of humanity remains... a novel that keeps [you] enthralled and uncertain from beginning to end." ---Cafe Libri</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">White-knuckle tension and crisp, clean prose distinguish this outstanding standalone from Birtcher (Angels Fall and two other Mike Travis mysteries). In 1976, Colombian and Mexican criminals are turning cocaine smuggling into a major industry, while the U.S. war on drugs is beginning to produce serious casualties. The nameless narrator is running a small-scale marijuana operation in California s Humboldt County, until bandits raid his farm and a shiftless kid rats him out. The narrator flees to a small Mexican town, where he collides with the schemes of local drug lord Miguel Zamora, who s spiraling out of control as he feeds his coke addiction and who foolishly plots to rip off both the Colombians and his partners in the government. Meanwhile, two corrupt border cops discover that they re way over their heads in their dealings with Zamora. Unable to trust anyone around them, the two must learn how far they can trust themselves. Many books call themselves thrillers, but this is the real deal. --Publishers Weekly Starred Review</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>THE TENTH WITNESS - LEONARD ROSEN</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">"This is a complex, dark, and disturbing story, beautifully told and based in part on history. Poincaré s character is deeply developed, as Rosen combines a probing Holocaust story with elements of an action thriller. A fine novel and further indication that Rosen is a writer of immense talent."--Booklist, starred review</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">"In Rosen's strong prequel to his 2011 debut, </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19px;">All Cry Chaos</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">, Henri Poincaré, not yet an Interpol agent, uncovers a startling secret that brings back the ghosts of WWII...Rosen writes with polish and confidence."--Publishers Weekly</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">"This is a prequel to Rosen's acclaimed mystery debut, </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19px;">All Cry Chaos</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">, which was set 30 years later when Henri was working as an Interpol investigator. Rosen relies on literary background and considerable research skillfully to portray Henri's confrontation with the nature of evil and his developing detective talents in investigating both dead Nazis and living ones. Another winner." --Library Journal</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">"If it's hard to wring new headlines from Nazi industrialists, Rosen uses this familiar background to tell a story as heartfelt as it is ambitious."--Kirkus Reviews</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">"If every author's primary responsibility is to keep the reader turning the page while mumbling the mantra just one more chapter . . . just one more chapter then Leonard Rosen has more than accomplished this goal with The Tenth Witness...You will not be disappointed." --NY Journal of Books</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">"Only the very best writers can weave a compelling story from a maze of complicated ideas.... Len Rosen has proven himself to be one of them." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">"The Tenth Witness is a brilliant follow up to Rosen's first thriller. Here is an author who cares as much about the pained human heart as a page-turning plot and manages to infuse this book with pathos, wit, wonder, fabulous historical detail, mystery and breathless anticipation. If you're looking for a smart thriller - look no further - Rosen is stupendous!" --International bestseller, M.J. Ros</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">e</span></span></div>
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<b>Library Journal proclaims Leonard Rosen's <i>The Tenth Witness</i> "another winner."</b><br />
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engineering consulting business by salvaging a sunken treasure ship off the
Dutch coast. By chance, he falls in love with Liesel Kraus, whose family’s
steel he uses in his work and whose history increasingly draws him into their
Nazi roots. Henri’s beloved uncle was a slave laborer for Liesel’s father and
one of ten witnesses who swore he was good to Jews. To understand his uncle’s
life, Henri pursues the witnesses, but they are dying and only he suspects
murder. Racing to find the last one still alive and the killer who seems to be
protecting the Kraus family’s reputation, Henri is forced to pit love against
justice at great personal peril. </span><b><span style="color: #d4711a; font-family: "TradeGothic Bold"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-transform: uppercase;">VERDICT</span><span style="color: black; font-family: TradeGothic; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.25pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Bembo; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.25pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">This
is a prequel to Rosen’s acclaimed mystery debut,<i> All Cry Chaos</i>, which
was set 30 years later when Henri was working as an Interpol investigator.
Rosen relies on literary background and considerable research skillfully to
portray Henri’s confrontation with the nature of evil and his developing
detective talents in investigating both dead Nazis and living ones. Another
winner.</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "TradeGothic Bold"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.15pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span></b><br />
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2013 Award Finalists</h3>
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Hello Permanent Press fans, award season is upon us and we are proud announce three of our 2012 novels have qualified as finalists in three distinguished awards.</div>
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Jaden Terrell's Nashville private investigator Jared McKean has a weakness for women in jeopardy - until one frames him for muder. His DNA and fingerprints are found at the murder scene and the victim was killed with a bullet from his gun. Now Jared must find a way to clear his name, hold his family together, and solve a case that could cost him his life.</div>
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-44975271303486704982013-06-17T14:44:00.000-04:002013-06-17T14:44:32.684-04:00<h3>
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<i>"Emma McEvoy’s ambitious and moving novel engages the viscerality of violence and its results, wrestles with the ethically essential imaginative task of understanding another’s human motivations and emotions, and explores the myriad in which people get lost in the land of Israel: Arab families are forced from their ancestral homes; IDF soldiers fight in “those neutral, passionless places” of the Sinai desert; conscientious objectors refused to serve past the 1967 borders wind up in prison; an Arab-Israeli IDF volunteer can’t regain his orientation; terrorist attacks disrupt daily activities; and, finally, a wife leaves her husband with only memories and cold dreams and the task of writing letter after letter...</i></div>
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-12096554047316542082013-02-14T16:34:00.000-05:002013-02-14T16:34:29.300-05:00<h3>
Review Roundup!</h3>
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Hello Permanent Press Fans, as we make our way further into 2013, waves of reviews continue to roll in. Here are the reviews from our latest and upcoming 2013 releases:</div>
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<i>"Her self-effacing wit, pointed observations, and purposefully stilted dialogue are instantly relatable and charged with dark humor. Readers will get the sad sense of time passing McNear's directionless life: a relatively long, horrendous marriage; the subsequent divorce; depressions and nervous breakdowns all impenetrable barriers to success. McNear's book is a deeply pleasurable read and a reminder that not everyone worth admiring has a plan." </i><b>--Publishers Weekly</b></div>
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<i>"The perfect retort to those who insist they don't write them like that any more." </i><b>--Library Journal<br /><br /></b><i>"Set in the very real, very modern world of financial chaos and loss, where a once great company is struggling to retain its market share, The Stone Lion brings the worlds of big business, research and development, sales and marketing to life. Fascinating characters and an interesting mix of interpersonal and company relationships, kept me reading, and eager to see how the tale might end. It ends well. I like this lion." </i><b>--Sheila Deeth, Gather.com</b> </div>
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-7168431618001128322013-01-23T16:46:00.002-05:002013-01-23T16:46:47.414-05:00<h3>
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William Eisner's <i>The Stone Lion</i> (coming this February) will be reviewed in next months issue of <i>Booklist</i>.</div>
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Publishers Weekly - 1/07/13 - <i>Resolve</i> Review</h3>
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<i>The Man on the Third Floor</i> promoted in The Boston Globe</h3>
Yesterday's "Boston Globe" mentioned Anne Bernays' latest novel <i>The Man on the Third Floor</i> in the "Word on the Street" section in a 'News about New England Books and Authors' update by Jan Gardner.<br />
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<b><i>The Man on the Third Floor </i>Now available from The Permanent Press</b><br />
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Marc Schuster Rates <i>The Inbetween People</i> for Small Press Reviews</h3>
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<i>"In 'The Inbetween People', debut novelist Emma McEvoy weaves together the disparate narratives of a handful of desperate, disenchanted characters to demonstrate that we are all, despite our differences, doing our best to make sense of our fallen, fractured world."</i> <b>--Marc Schuster, Small Press Reviews</b><br />
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-18492808388738090362012-12-04T10:38:00.001-05:002012-12-04T10:44:36.038-05:00<h3>
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Hey Kindle users! The following Permanent Press novels will be on sale in the Amazon Kindle store from now through the holiday season:</div>
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-81757259834799189322012-11-08T11:26:00.002-05:002012-11-08T11:26:49.599-05:00<h3>
Kirkus Reviews -- December 1, 2012</h3>
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<b>Look for Knock Knock coming December 2012 from The Permanent Press!</b></div>
The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-39740481242224191382012-10-23T12:05:00.000-04:002012-10-23T12:05:34.116-04:00<h3>
New Review For <i>The Grievers</i></h3>
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Marc Schuster's <i>The Grievers</i> has been praised again, this time on Luxury Reading.com.</div>
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-65853794923536008992012-10-22T15:32:00.001-04:002012-10-22T15:38:27.196-04:00<h3>
<i>The Ringer </i>wins 2012 High Plains Book Award</h3>
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Author Jenny Shank (pictured below with fellow winner Thomas McGuane) visited the town of Billings, MT to receive her award. </div>
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The Permanent Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16787773430540038499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469743544508067575.post-86269381560333268172012-10-15T16:29:00.000-04:002012-10-15T16:29:27.455-04:00<h3>
<i>Looking for Przybylski </i>favorably praised by early reviewers on Librarything!</h3>
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K.C. Frederick's <i>Looking for Przybylski</i> has received it's first batch of early reviews from readers who were sent preliminary copies via Librarything.com</div>
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<i>The Inbetween People:</i> "An Impressive Debut" says Kirkus</h3>
<i>The Inbetween People</i> is not only the debut novel for author Emma McEvoy, it is also marks the beginning of The Permanent Press' 2013 catalog!<br />
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Leonard Rosen's All Cry Chaos wins the 2012 Macavity Award for Best First Novel </h4>
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