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Wednesday June 25th, 2008 No Time for Goodbye has hit #1 on Amazon UK! The thriller, a Richard and Judy Summer Read pick, has catapulted to the top of the online bestseller list. And on Sunday, June 29, it will hit the London Sunday Times bestseller list at #5. Sunday June 15th, 2008  No Time for Goodbye is a Richard and Judy Summer Read!
Richard and Judy, hosts of the immensely popular talk show in the UK, and whose book club has turned the publishing industry upside down, have chosen No Time for Goodbye as one of their eight recommended reads for the summer. No Time for Goodbye (with a very moody "lost in the forest" cover) will be the book up for discussion on Richard and Judy's show, on Channel 4, on July 2. No Time for Goodbye has been nominated for best novel by the International Thriller Writers. The results will be announced at the ITW's annual convention, in New York city, on July 12. 
No Time for Goodbye is also up for a Barry Award for best novel in the thriller/suspense category. The Barry winners will be announced in October in Baltimore at Bouchercon, the annual convention devoted to everything related to mystery novels.My next standalone thriller, Too Close to Home, will be released in hardcover in North America the end of September. In the UK, it will be released at the end of the year, except in Australia, where it is due out by this October. Too Close to Home is also coming out in Germany, under the title Dem Tode Nah, in October. No Time for Goodbye, under the title Ohne Ein Wort, has already sold about half a million copies in Germany.
Upcoming Appearances
• I will be in New York, at Thrillerfest, July 9-12. For information, go to http://www.thrillerwriters.org/. • The Books by the Bay Festival, in North Bay, Ont., has invited be to be part of their events, which are running from July 18-20. • In August, I will be at the Wolfe Island Scene of the Crime Festival, in the Kingston area of Ontario. For details, go to http://www.sceneofthecrime.ca. • In October, I'm off to the terrific convention for crime writers and fans, Bouchercon, held this year in Baltimore, Maryland. For details about the convention, go to http://www.charmedtodeath.com. • On Nov. 7, at 12:30, I'll be signing books at the Coles bookstore in the Royal Bank Plaza in Toronto, and that evening, I'm due to appear at the Whitby Public Library. Details to come. Tuesday June 10th, 2008 linwoodbarclay.com has received a facelift. This new design is an intermediary step toward an even more user-involved site. In the future you can look forward to a blog by Linwood Barclay himself as well as information about upcoming novels and more. Stay tuned! |