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.
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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.

9:51 pm
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.

11:09 pm

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