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Here's an ad for Lee Child's latest book that ran this morning in the New York Times:
If you click on the image, you can read the fine print at the bottom, where they include blurbs from Janet Maslin and myself. Publishers use blurbs all the time, of course, but it's nice when they include the critics' names with the quotes.
We deserve a little recognition for our words, don't we?
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David J. Montgomery is the thriller/mystery critic for The Daily Beast and the Chicago Sun-Times. He has written about authors and books for several of the country's largest newspapers, including the Washington Post, USA Today and Boston Globe.
He lives in the Washington, D.C. suburbs with his wife and daughters.
Congrats, man! That's really cool.
Posted by: Marcus Sakey | May 31, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Looks great, too. Congrats
Posted by: Darwyn Jones | June 02, 2007 at 12:00 AM