Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:08:12 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sunday Book World
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> nottenst at yahoo.com 03/19/07 9:18 AM >>>
>I was surprised I didn't yet see a note about Michael
>Dirda's column in Sunday's Book World.  His column can
>be found at
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
>dyn/content/article/2007/03/15/AR2007031502608.html
>
>He reviews a book from an obscure publisher, Old earth
>Books.  :)
>
>I guess Things Will Never Be the Same

At Lunacon, Marty Gear was kind enoughto print the review for me.  What
you misss reading it online is that the review is a full bloody page of
Book World.  No advertisements, just text and the photo of Howard from
the frontispiece of the book

Also on Sunday, the book wast BoingBoinged:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/18/new_howard_waldrop_c.html

All of which led the book getting to a 300 or so Amazon sales ranking.

A perfect storm of publicity!

The Post review also mentions Howard Who? ... the first ever reprint of
Howard's first collection.  Until the reprint it was easy getting $50 or
more for ex-library copies.

I knew it was goingto be reviewed, I suspected it was going to Michael
dirda (one of the GoHs for the 2008 Capclave ...) but didn't expect
lines like: "Waldrop is our own very American magic-realist, as
imaginative and playful as early Garc?a Marquez or, better yet, Italo
Calvino"

mjw