Tag Archives: Scott Turow

So, What Is a Thriller?

  Fiction genres tend to have porous boundaries, mixing and blending into each other. Many books are hybrids that cross genres. For instance, you can’t define a “thriller” solely by its settings, since they can take place almost anywhere, and … Continue reading

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Does Amazon Pose a Danger of “Monopoly” to the Book Business?

  Joe Konrath, the bad-boy guru of self-publishing, utterly demolishes another piece of nonsense written against Amazon.com by author Scott Turow, president of the Authors Guild. Turow trots out every tired liberal cliche about the alleged evils and “threats” posed … Continue reading

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