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Turns out lauralippman.com has been down for a couple of days.

And one person noticed.

So I’ll put <a href=”http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6496987.html?desc=topstory “_blank”>this</a> here.

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  4. Laura, I noticed that your web site was down a couple of days ago. I usually check it around the beginning of each month to see if you’ve posted a new message. You have quite a bit of great news to share these days. What the Dead Know is a superb book and deserves the honors it has received and will receive.

  7. I noticed too, but figured you must already know, and nothing’s more annoying than to be told something you already know …

    except when it’s WTDK on a “Best of” list. Congratulations!

  8. I noticed, and I don’t think I’m the one person you meant. Unfortunately, there are about 200,000 websites down all over the East Coast and Midwest. And, that includes about 80% of my clients. Meanwhile, I’m the only one who’s gotten to read your Letter From Laura so far, so indulge me if I get to feel special for a few moments. I need a good thing in between panickky phone calls. As soon as the site’s back up, everyone can read it.

    CONGRATS on all of your well-deserved successes, Laura!!

  10. Beth — I know (hope) that you recognized that self-effacing joke as one at my own expense. Everyone knows how much I love Cincinnati Media! It was another regular here who alerted me, because he jumps from lauralippman.com to the The Memory Project.

    Clair, I’m never annoyed by good news, no matter how long I’ve known it. Fact is, I clicked on the link when I saw it in Publishers Lunch today, which meant I got to tell my agent. She asked if I had any plans to celebrate and I said — pretzel night! At Jack’s Bistro! Home of cheeseburger soup and mac-and-chees with chocolate.

    (Actually, the plan for pretzel night was already in place, as I wanted to celebrate the end of copy-editing. Also, I realized I had gone eight days with virtually no real human contact, except for Halloween, Viva House and trips to the gym.)

  11. Weird innit how you’re a “fiction” writer with PW though they call your most excellent book ” a thriller” they don’t put you in the mystery category. I always have to assume my vastly superior knowledge of the genre (yeah, right) is in question when I don’t recognize um, well, ANY of the titles in the mystery list. But you and Joe Hill wrote two of the best books this year. I’m SO glad PW knows it. (so far, after your name on my “best of 2007″ list there is only one other. It’s Barbara Seranella.)
    I’m SO pleased for you Laura. This is great news.

  13. Congratulations! My mom’s been reading it and she totally loves it. (As naturally she would.)

    And on a totally unrelated note, I saw that your s.o. signed the Pencils Down Means Pencils Down letter and I think that’s awesome. I hope the strike doesn’t last long (meaning I hope the producers cave quickly). Please pass on the “keep up the good fight!” message.

  14. My feelings about the fiction versus mystery list are a little jumbled. On the one hand, I’m very pleased that crime novels (to use the broadest term) are so well-represented on the list. But does that mean the main list is “better” than the genre list? I know I’m not a better writer than Thomas Cook or Ruth Rendell, for example. Writers such as Cook and Rendell blazed the trail for the stand-alones I’ve written.

    So I prefer to think that there is simply so much work going on in the mystery field (and other genres) that crime fiction needed TWO lists. There’s been some Internet talk lately about crime fiction, touching on the usual issues of respect (do we have it? should we have it?) and this list would indicate we’re treated better than any other genre. There are love stories on the main list, but no “romances.” Joe Hill represents for horror on the main list, but horror and science fiction share a list elsewhere. And westerns? Not represented at all, to the best of my knowledge.

  15. Since someone mentioned your SO, I was at the dr. office and saw Bethesda magazine-I live in Silver Spring but the magazine does cover us(the “poor” relation) occasionally. I read that he grew up in Silver Spring and still goes to Parkway Deli(with the pickle bar- as a vegetarian- my favorite part) sometimes. And I thought it was major when I saw our state senator eating at Red Dog Cafe in the same strip.

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