Jon Clinch's Blog

• Kings of the Earth gets its jacket copy

  November 3, 2009

  • Just got the jacket copy for Kings of the Earth... "Following up Finn—his much-heralded and prize-winning debut whose voice evoked “the mythic styles of his literary predecessors...William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy and Edward P. Jones” (San Francisco Chronicle)—Jon Clinch returns with Kings of the Earth, a powerful and haunting story of life, death, and family in ...
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• Available Now for Pre-Order...

  August 18, 2009

  • Wendy Clinch's debut novel—DOUBLE BLACK: A SKI DIVA MYSTERY—is coming to your favorite bookstore on Jauary 5, 2010. It's about a young woman who heads for a Vermont ski town to pursue the ski-bum lifestyle, only to stumble on financial intrigue, bitter family warfare, and murder. It has lots of quirky characters and loads of New England atmosphere, and it stars a young woman with nerve, ...
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• My Publishing Misstep: Twelve Words

  July 30, 2009

  • My publishing misstep with FINN was exactly fifty-six characters long.  Twelve words. Two lines. A pair of simple declarative sentences that live on in the hardcover edition, but have vanished from the trade paperback. Here's how it happened. My editor didn't ask for many changes to the manuscript I submitted. He wanted me to go back and make sure I'd adequately signposted some of the ...
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