SEEN This Week 2/13/12

People who are sharing the literary love this Valentine's Week:

Saint Peter Killed God by KJ Kron was featured February 7 on Daily Cheap Reads.

Brenda Jackson’s Private Arrangements became the first Kimani title to make USA Today Books Top 50 bestsellers.

Here's a grist for the rumor mill: Amazon is reportedly planning to launch a retail store in Seattle.

Matt Hammond's acclaimed book Milkshake made it to the number one spot as the highest rated 99 cent, 50,000+ words espionage thriller on Smashwords on February 8.

Sheila Mary Belshaw disclosed her forever-young secret on Hannah Warren's blog February 7. Enjoy and be instructed

Cliff Ball's newest novel, Times of Trouble, is now available in the Amazon Kindle Store.

Do you like angels? Uprising is a powerful book writing by Dawn Jayne. Check it out on Barnes and Noble.

Brian Hartman will be interviewed by Monica Brinkman on June 21, 2012.

Angie's Diary Online Magazine now has a group on on Google Plus.

Alex Layborne paid tribute to the late Howard Hopkins by posting a final interview with Hopkins.

Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson went on sale February 7.

R.P. McCabe Official Site is a forum for the Betrayed author to share his views and insights. Click here to visit.


My News for the Week:


Thanks to all who sent birthday wishes on February 8 for my birthday. Actually, I don't feel a year older...yet.

Fifty got off to a running start since its Kindle edition was released earlier this month. During the KDP free promotion February 9-12, Fifty ranked among the top five Kindle store books in Personal Development, and launched me among the top ranked 350 Personal Development authors.

The Cruiserweight was featured as one of three free download sports books February 8 on Free Books for Kindle as part of the KDP Select promotion.

The Cruiserweight was #1 in free downloaded wrestling books during its KDP Free Promotion on Amazon February 8-12.

The Cruiserweight ranked among Amazon USA best sellers February 5:
#39 in Kindle Store - Kindle eBooks - Nonfiction - Sports - Individual Sports - Wrestling
#93 in Books - Sports and Outdoors - Individual Sports - Wrestling

The Cruiserweight placed among the Top Five Kindle Store Wrestling Romance books February 7.


Do you have news that you'd like to see in a future column? Either post it on a related site or email lori@authorsonshow.com before the following week. Also follow me on Twitter @lacarrington1.

Author Profile: Jack Murnighan

Perhaps on of the most fascinating modern-day writers, Jack Murnighan has many talents - quoting everything from Proust to David Foster Wallace among them. It's no surprise Jack is proficient in such work, as he's spent most of his life studying the literary greats. His latest work is co-authoring with Maura Kelly on Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals, published by Simon and Schuster imprint Free Press.

BIOGRAPHY:

Born a Hoosier, raised a central-Illinoisan, Jack Murnighan used geography quotas to get in to Brown University, where he studied philosophy and semiotics and graduated in 1990.

The next two years were spent on and off in Paris, doing Orwellian lifestyle experiments and seeing what his identity would be if he spoke to no one and got no positive feedback. He wrote a lot of letters.

Penniless, he returned to the academy, joining Duke University's Literature Program, where he would eventually earn a Ph.D. (in 1999) with a thesis on allegory and a specialization in Medieval and Renaissance literature.

While writing his dissertation, Murnighan started working as an editor and staff writer of Nerve.com, contributing, among other things, ,em>Jack's Naughty Bits, a weekly column on sex in the history of literature, which was ultimately compiled into two books, The Naughty Bits and Classic Nasty.

In 2000 he left Nerve and began research for Beowulf on the Beach, reading or rereading all 15 of Dickens' major novels, as well as most of the rest of the Western canon. He fancied himself a swashbuckling young rival of Harold Bloom, minus the readership or chair at Yale.

Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits was published in May of 2009. Now, for fun, Murnighan has turned to reading Dickens' non-fiction.

ON THE WEB

Web Site: jackmurninghan.com

Amazon Author Page: Jack Murninghan

Blog: jackmurnighan.blogspot.com

Twitter: @jackmurnighan

Facebook: Jack Murnighan