Monday, June 01, 2009

Just One Book: the Debate

An excellent, judicious post about the Salt Just One book campaign by Sheila Bounford at Off the Page, written largely in response to a fierce debate on Jane Smith's How Publishing Really Works.

2 comments:

Jane Smith said...

Elizabeth, thank you for the link to my blog, which has already sent several people over there.

Thanks to the "Just One Book" campaign, I now have a copy of the wonderful "Balancing on the Edge of the World" in my hands. I've read the first story: the ending was made even more powerful by your quick, easy style and it's stayed with me all day. Lovely. If the rest of the stories are as good (and I bet they are), I'm in for an absolute treat.

I'll be going back to Salt's (apparently difficult to navigate, but I didn't find it so on my slow dial-up connection) website in a week or two to buy a few more books but meanwhile, I'll be reading your fabulous book.

Elizabeth Baines said...

Jane, I'm so pleased to have discovered your blog. And thank you so much for buying my book - I do hope you enjoy the rest of the stories. But I can thoroughly recommend other Salt books: of course you know about Tania's The White road, of course; I'm sure you're going to love Carys Davies's haunting contemporary fairy tales, and Vanessa Gebbie's feisty stories are a must, as are the varied but evocative stories of Charles Lambert, and the tough wry stories of Matthew Licht which I've just bougt and have started reading. Pletny more, though: as Charles Lambert says, Salt don't do duds to my knowledge.