Discovering Henning Mankell (here) Let me start with a confession: I’m not a habitual reader of police thrillers and murder stories. Like everyone, I’ve read Agatha Christie when I was young, I’ve gone through all the classics from Arthur Conan Doyle to Ngaio Marsh but I’m not a fan, call me a dispassionate reader. Why?…
Month: October 2015
Amazon Has Done It Again for Self-Publishing!
The wonderful case of Swedish self-published author Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin is there to prove it! Thanks to Amazon, this author, a psychologist who has founded a psychological coaching company and published several “help” books in various genres since 2006, has hit the jackpot. News came out in this summer that something strange was happening on…
Boomer Lit Three Years Later: What Next?
In a way, Boomer Lit has been around for ever. Any book dealing with the challenges of “mature life” (meaning over 50) could be said to be “Boomer Lit”. And now that some 78 million baby boomers in the US have reached 50 or are older – and that’s a big segment of the American…
Claude Forthomme 