Review
Amazon’s new policy on book reviews did not impact me thanks to the quality of my friends and family.
You may have heard that Amazon has a new policy when it comes to online book reviews. From a piece in The New York Times: Giving raves to family members is no longer acceptable. Neither is writers’ reviewing other writers. But showering five stars on a book you admittedly have not read is fine. After…
Read MoreThree unique book reviews
The reviews of MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND have been pouring in, and while I will not share all of them with you, I thought that these three were worth a mention for their rather unique characteristics: The review in which my wife, Elysha, is praised The review that I appreciate very much but cannot…
Read MoreMatthew Brown reads Matthew Green
The fact that I published MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND in the UK under the pseudonym Matthew Green and the narrator of the audio version of the book is Matthew Brown is odd. Or perhaps fitting. Either way, I am happy to see Matthew Brown getting his due in the recent review of his performance…
Read MoreThe Author’s Prayer
A while back, Washington Post fiction critic extraordinaire Ron Charles tweeted: Does being stuck inside writing a review on this gorgeous day make me even more annoyed with this tedious novel? I was never able to determine which book Charles was referencing, but the comment left me wondering if a critic’s personal circumstances might impact…
Read MoreUnexpected links
A couple links you may be interested in related to UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO: The first two parts (Part 1) (Part 2) in a three-part series on the realities of a book tour. I’m writing these pieces for the Water Street Books blog in preparation for my upcoming appearance in a couples weeks. A terrific review of…
Read MoreDaily Candy and The Wall Street Journal!
This has been a good day. UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO hit bookstore shelves yesterday, and today it was reviewed by Daily Candy and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Daily Candy, an enormously popular website that everyone seemed to know about prior to the review with the exception of me, ran their review on their front page…
Read MoreKudos for SOMETHING MISSING
Eight months after its release and it’s still nice to read a good review of SOMETHING MISSING by someone who is encouraging fellow readers to give it a whirl.
Read MoreAnother review to close out 2009
Hartford Magazine reviewed Something Missing for their January 2010 edition, which arrived at my home this week. Marion Dooling writes that “Matthew Dicks’s tale about OCD thief Martin Railsback and his clients is a fun, quirky book that kept me reading far beyond regular bedtime. His sense of humor and off-beat storyline often made me…
Read MorePraise for “Something Missing”
A couple of great reviews popped up online today, including the Newsday review from the Sunday paper and Bookslut’s review (a lit blog with an odd title but much respect in the publishing industry).
Read MoreFoiled by meat
On Sunday, Elysha and I were driving back from New Haven, listening to the Yankees play the Blue Jays. We were also searching for a copy of Newsday, as a review of Something Missing was scheduled to appear on Sunday. It was a crucial moment in the ballgame as we pulled into a local 7-11,…
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