Westside Stories

Greetings from NYC's Upper West Side!:-)

Hope everyone's doing all right. I tried to balance my stay in the Big Apple between "business" and pleasure. I was lucky enough to have lunch with Alex Lencicki from Orbit, another lunch with Sheila, Betsy, Erica and Sarah from Daw Books, finally met my agent Matt Bialer in person, and had another meeting with Anne Groell from Bantam Dell. I really took advantage of Restaurant Week!;-)

Anyway, in terms of online reviewing, everyone seems to believe that they represent the future of book reviewing. So John Clute and the others who sat on that panel at Readercon should perhaps look a little more into this. . .

I did talk about the "overexposure" that two many giveaways generate, which in turn engenders less exposure for each title, etc. Anyway, after discussing it with a few people, it's obvious that we must do something in order for such giveaways to continue to be an adequate vehicle to promote authors, novels and series.

I threw a few ideas around, and they were greeted quite favorably. So we'll have to discuss this further when I get back to Montreal in the coming weeks.

All in all, a very interesting couple of days in New York City. I was very interesting meeting all these people, and see that the blog is such a positive influence in the wider world!;-) If only Mother Nature had smiled a little more on my stay here. . .

Talk to you later!