A. Manette Ansay's Blog

• Good Things in paperback

  July 8, 2010

  • Good Things I Wish You is out in paperback!  My giveaway promotion for book clubs have ended, but there's at least one other on the Readers Group Choices website.
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• Good Things for Book Clubs

  January 26, 2010

  • Book Club Member?  Shoot me an email to receive a free signed hardback of Good Things I Wish You.  Note the postcard tucked inside.  If you like the book, and your club decides to pre-order the paperback (pub date this June) drop the postcard into the mail.  You’ll get a box of more good things, including personalized Club book marks, printed reader’s guides, a recipe for Torte a la Wieck ...
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• The Alchemy of Imagery

  January 25, 2010

  • The inclusion of images in Good Things evolved out of a happy accident.  I commute long hours by train to my academic job--as does my narrator, Jeanette--so I started photographing my desk (laden with research) and importing the photos into my text documents.  It was the closest thing to carrying all my books and papers with me that I could come up with.  I'd sit on the train, writing, and ...
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