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April 26, 2010
SUPERBUG interest from collegial fellow bloggers
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SUPERBUG has been getting lots of positive press and reviews. (Yay us.)
But a piece over the weekend was especially meaningful to me and I wanted to call it out: Flu blogger and DailyKos diarist DemfromCT featured the book on his DailyKos page. (And, behold the power of networks: 178 comments this morning. Wow.)
Liz Borkowski at [...]
April 11, 2010
Los Angeles Times op-ed, by me
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Constant readers, op-ed editor Sue Horton of the Los Angeles Times read SUPERBUG and thought there might be an op-ed in it. With her expert guidance, I wrote one, and it is in the paper’s op-ed page today. Here’s the link.
March 23, 2010
PUBLICATION DAY and so many people to thank. The short list:
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Sara Austin, Susan Raihofer, Emily Loose, Maura O’Brien, Ali Pisano, Dominick Anfuso, Martha Levin, Elizabeth Stein.
Andrew Dodds, David Ratner, Shirley Sandler, Chuck Monroe, Elise Bogdan.
Penny Duckham, Deirdre Graham, Matt James, Drew Altman; Bruce Shapiro, Frank Ochberg, MD, Dorie Griggs.
Barth Anderson, Frances Katz, Quinton and Jean Gregor, Anne Edwards, MD, Joanne Kenen, Howard Gleckman.
Michael Coston, [...]
March 23, 2010
PUBLICATION DAY! And SUPERBUG will be on Fresh Air
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Constant readers, huge news: SUPERBUG will be featured in a segment today on the NPR program Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Please tune in if you can! Fresh Air’s broadcast times vary across the country, but you can listen online or via podcast. The schedule is here.
March 21, 2010
Early book reaction! Positive so far…
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Folks, it’s Sunday, and SUPERBUG will be officially released on Tuesday. Press copies have been landing at last. Readers who responded to my plea for pre-orders (because pre-orders are very important to how the publisher and the market behave subsequently about the book) have been telling me they’re getting emails saying the book is on [...]
March 16, 2010
One week to publication! And the book video is up
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OK, folks, mystery unveiled: Here’s what I look and sound like. Simon and Schuster has put up a video for the book — not a trailer, per se, but an interview with me (backed by spooky music!).
I’m having trouble with the embed code – I can’t seem to resize their monster window! — but meanwhile [...]
March 11, 2010
SUPERBUG the book: First excerpt, first interview, and news!
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Constant readers: It’s two weeks to publication, and I’m starting to lose my grip on everything there is to do. (As you might be able to tell by my radio silence…) I’m very backed up on great research to tell you about.
First, though, let me share some book news:
EXCERPT: The first excerpt of SUPERBUG has [...]
January 27, 2010
SUPERBUG’s first web page!
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Folks, as with my first book, I’m having a website professionally built for SUPERBUG (by the awesome Book Report Network). But while we work on that, I’ve put up a proto-page on my own. Please come check it out!
You’ll see the gorgeous, scary cover, the hair-raising jacket copy, and links to pages about me and [...]
January 19, 2010
SUPERBUG’s cover – a sneak peek!
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Constant readers, apologies for disappearing unexpectedly. It’s been a challenging few weeks at Casa Superbug, with a death in the family and a sudden trip to a part of the country with, hmm, low connectivity.
But I’m back. And there’s so much to talk about. Here’s the first in a long list: The cover art for [...]
SUPERBUG on BoingBoing!
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