Author interviews posted

Our first two author interviews, first seen in the revamped State of the Thing newsletter, are live on the site itself. The interviews are:

• Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and other Impossible Pursuits and now Bad Mother.
• Arthur Philips, author of The Egyptologist and now The Song Is You.

Abby and I enjoyed reading the books—we both read from Bad Mother (thumbs up, but it will tweak you), and Abby read The Song is You (thumbs up)*. Philips' interview convinced me I should check him out. "A child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy champion" and a huge fan of Pale Fire? Will he come to our next party?

Want to do an author interview? Know someone who might? We're looking for authors, and we'd rather get great ideas from members than declare open-season on our inboxes from publisher PR types. Email abby@librarything.com about it.

We have a number of other things authors and publishers can "do" with LibraryThing on the about page. We'll be sprucing it up in time for Book Expo America in New York.

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*I think we have to stop saying if we liked a book, as we'll eventually read one we positively hate and "Check out this interview with Mr-Can't-Write" probably won't win us any friends.