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August 2, 2010
Just Your Luck: The "Joe's Luck" E-book Is Free
So I contributed to a fun project launched by Jason Boog at Galleycat. Inspired by the very entertaining Star Wars Uncut, he asked a bunch of writers to take a page from Horatio Alger's 100-year-old novel, Joe's Luck: Always Wide Awake, and retell it. How? Any way we wanted to. He's billing the result as Joe's Luck: The World's Longest Literary Remix, and I'm sure it is. (Surely it can't be the world's only literary remix, anyway.) The thing "dropped" over a month ago, and I've been meaning t...
July 27, 2010
If This Takes the Place of My Annual Review, That's Fine with Me
I've already quoted from this but, after admiring it on the home page of Booklist Online, thought I'd post a link. "Books by Booklist Authors: Keir Graff's The Price of Liberty" may have been written by my boss, Bill Ott, but that doesn't make me feel any less good about it. There are a lot of people whose bosses won't say anything nice about them, much less put it in writing and publish it for all the world to see. I'm fairly bursting my buttons.
With The Price of Liberty, Keir Graff...
July 22, 2010
I Write Like David Foster Wallace—Yeah, RIGHT
Everyone else seems to be figuring out who they write like, so I figured I might as well find out who I write like, too. Based on the first page of The Price of Liberty, I write like . . . (drum roll, please) . . . David Foster Wallace.
Alrighty, then. I tried page 71, which has a bit more action (and violence, and cursing), and . . . oh, for Pete's sake. James Joyce.
Really, the programmer needs to feed some more books into his computer.
July 19, 2010
Early Praise for The Price of Liberty
So the early reviews of The Price of Liberty are in—and they're pretty good!
Library Journal called it "another winner" and noted:
"With its wacky characters and deadpan humor, Graff's third novel . . . will appeal to those who like their thrillers slightly off-kilter in the tradition of Donald Westlake and Lawrence Block."
Publishers Weekly called it a "solid political thriller" and concluded:
"Graff’s cynical take on government waste and corporate greed plays well. McEnroe is as rugged as the...
May 27, 2010
My Fellow Americans Is Now Available as an E-book!
So, as it turns out, I own the e-book rights to My Fellow Americans, One Nation Under God, and the forthcoming Price of Liberty. So what am I doing with them? Putting them through the meatgrinder -- or, Meatgrinder -- the multiformat publishing tool at Smashwords.
So, now you can buy My Fellow Americans as .mobi (Kindle), Epub, PDF, RTF, LRF, PDB, HTML -- and plain text besides -- for the bargain price of $1.99. And it all happens PDQ, too. I've just learned that it's been accepted for...
Reviews
"Graff’s cynical take on government waste and corporate greed plays well. McEnroe is as rugged as the desolate country he lives in, and his gritty do-what-ya-gotta-do actions keep the pages turning easily."
—Publishers Weekly
One Nation, Under God" . . . One Nation evokes such paranoid 1970s thrillers as The Parallax View and Six Days of the Condor."
—Jeffrey Westhoff, Chicago Sun-Times
My Fellow Americans"Graff . . . has a light but sure hand. Jason's harrowing adventures...
Profiles & Interviews
"Books by Booklist Authors: Keir Graff's The Price of Liberty," by Bill Ott (Booklist, June 1, 2010)
"Small-town boy, big-city ideas," by Mark Eleveld (Chicago Sun-Times, November 25, 2007)
"Books by Booklist Authors: Keir Graff's My Fellow Americans," by Bill Ott (Booklist, June 1, 2007)
"Eirkay Affgray," by Jonathan Messinger (Time Out Chicago, February 15-21, 2007)
"Books by Booklist Authors: Michael McCulloch's Cold Lessons," by Bill Ott (Booklist, January 1, 2007)
Audio & Video
Reading my story, "Reading Is My Business" (June 10, 2010)
Just another day at my day job: "We Read Everything" (May 6, 2009)
Podcast: "Back of the Book" (Time Out Chicago, September 18, 2008)
Moderating the Booklist Adult Books Readers' Advisory Forum: Post-9/11 Fiction, in Anaheim, California (American Libraries Focus, July 23, 2008):
Interview by William Taylor (Ingram Library Services Interact, July 28, 2008)
At the American Library Association's annual conference in Washington, DC...
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