Comments on: In Appreciation of Russell & Holmes http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/in-appreciation-of-russell-holmes/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:26:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tracy Grant http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/in-appreciation-of-russell-holmes/#comment-4104 Tracy Grant Sun, 03 May 2009 22:29:10 +0000 http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/?p=529#comment-4104 If you can afford it, it does help the author. So do paperback sales when the book is first released in paperback. If you can afford it, it does help the author. So do paperback sales when the book is first released in paperback.

]]> By: Kaite http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/in-appreciation-of-russell-holmes/#comment-4102 Kaite Sun, 03 May 2009 22:09:33 +0000 http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/?p=529#comment-4102 That never really occurred to me - I was mostly just in it for the pretty - so now I will make a point of buying in hardcover whenever I can! That never really occurred to me – I was mostly just in it for the pretty – so now I will make a point of buying in hardcover whenever I can!

]]> By: Tracy Grant http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/in-appreciation-of-russell-holmes/#comment-4101 Tracy Grant Sun, 03 May 2009 18:52:52 +0000 http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/?p=529#comment-4101 As an author, I can say that it's wonderful that you buy the books in hardcover--those sales, especially when a book is just out, are so important to future contracts. We ordered from James Thin in Edinburgh--they were fabulous! So sad they aren't there anymore. As an author, I can say that it’s wonderful that you buy the books in hardcover–those sales, especially when a book is just out, are so important to future contracts.

We ordered from James Thin in Edinburgh–they were fabulous! So sad they aren’t there anymore.

]]> By: Kaite http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/in-appreciation-of-russell-holmes/#comment-4100 Kaite Sun, 03 May 2009 18:08:48 +0000 http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/?p=529#comment-4100 Well I can't go back to the library until I pay those pesky fines... Ah, Edinburgh bookstores ;) I did my undergrad degree up there and I think they swallowed up most of my student loan! Well I can’t go back to the library until I pay those pesky fines…

Ah, Edinburgh bookstores ;) I did my undergrad degree up there and I think they swallowed up most of my student loan!

]]> By: Tracy Grant http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/in-appreciation-of-russell-holmes/#comment-4099 Tracy Grant Sun, 03 May 2009 17:08:59 +0000 http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/?p=529#comment-4099 Sounds like you have a lot of great books to look forward to, Katie! I'm so glad "Beneath a Silent Moon" is among them. When I was growing up we almost never bought new hardcovers--we'd request new books at the library and then buy them in paperback later. The wait for the library books seemed interminable. The exception was Dorothy Dunnett books, which we ordered from a London or Edinburgh bookstore. Too funny about the London heatwave. We don't get rain in California that often, but we're having a gray, drippy weekend (with serious rain pounding on the roof last night). In Mélanie's Fraser Correspondence letter this week I had her talk about a gray, wet spring day in London :-). Thanks for adding me on Twitter! Sounds like you have a lot of great books to look forward to, Katie! I’m so glad “Beneath a Silent Moon” is among them. When I was growing up we almost never bought new hardcovers–we’d request new books at the library and then buy them in paperback later. The wait for the library books seemed interminable. The exception was Dorothy Dunnett books, which we ordered from a London or Edinburgh bookstore.

Too funny about the London heatwave. We don’t get rain in California that often, but we’re having a gray, drippy weekend (with serious rain pounding on the roof last night). In Mélanie’s Fraser Correspondence letter this week I had her talk about a gray, wet spring day in London :-) .

Thanks for adding me on Twitter!

]]> By: Kaite http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/in-appreciation-of-russell-holmes/#comment-4096 Kaite Sun, 03 May 2009 09:41:25 +0000 http://tracygrant.wordpress.com/?p=529#comment-4096 I've been re-reading the Mary Russell books this week. I'm DYING to read the latest one, but it will have to wait until payday - when I plan on getting the new Deanna Raybourn, catching up with Tasha Alexander's Emily Ashford series, and picking up 'Beneath a Silent Moon'. Unfortunately, these are all the kind of books I like to curl up with on a rainy day and we're in the middle of a damn heatwave (in ENGLAND. Did the weather gods not get the memo? It's bad enough that we don't have romantic but impractical London fog these days). I have to confess, I think the only book I've bought on release day in recent memory was Julie Andrews memoir last year. I even left work early to get it! And hurrah for your being on Twitter! I have added you ;) I’ve been re-reading the Mary Russell books this week. I’m DYING to read the latest one, but it will have to wait until payday – when I plan on getting the new Deanna Raybourn, catching up with Tasha Alexander’s Emily Ashford series, and picking up ‘Beneath a Silent Moon’. Unfortunately, these are all the kind of books I like to curl up with on a rainy day and we’re in the middle of a damn heatwave (in ENGLAND. Did the weather gods not get the memo? It’s bad enough that we don’t have romantic but impractical London fog these days).

I have to confess, I think the only book I’ve bought on release day in recent memory was Julie Andrews memoir last year. I even left work early to get it!

And hurrah for your being on Twitter! I have added you ;)

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