Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, VA, is hosting its first-ever Twitter Book Club tonight at 6 p.m. Everyone can participate, no matter where you live! You won’t have to leave the house–or even change out of your pajamas–to join a lively discussion about the current #1 New York Times bestseller, A Reliable Wife.
Go to www.tweetchat.com, sign in with your Twitter username and password
Enter fountainreads into the hashtag search box
That’s it! For more info, check out The Book Ladys Blog, who is partnering with Fountain Bookstore. You can also enter there to win a free copy of the book!
The debut novel A Reliable Wife is just out in paperback–which makes for a fantastic start in 2010. Click here to see a video interview with the author, Robert Goolrick.
With almost the entire nation deep in this wintertime cold snap, today is the perfect on-sale date for the paperback edition ofThe New York Times bestseller A Reliable Wife, set in the bitter-cold winter of Wisconsin in 1909.
Borders recently interviewed debut author Robert Goolrick–you can watch the interview here, and read the first chapter below. We’re sure you’ll be hooked from the first page. A Reliable Wife
So grab your warmest coat, hat, and gloves, brave the frigid wind, and head out to your nearest bookstore to pick up a copy! We’d love to hear what you think.
Friday morning, the entire Algonquin staff in Chapel Hill worked together to get 350 packages of A Reliable Wife(and a fleece blanket to read it under) out to bookstores and booksellers across the country. We wanted to make sure they had a chance to read the book in paperback before it goes on sale on January 5.
The Algonquin elves stacked, taped, stamped and tied every package–and we got them out the door before Friday’s storm hit!
Boxes and boxes of books needed to be unpacked.
Stacks of Algonquin fleece blankets were packaged with the books and a letter.
The assembly line in action, as blankets and books were loaded into boxes and taped up.
Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s Winter-Inspired Book Booty Giveaway! The first place winner of the blanket, mug, and a copy of A Reliable Wife is Erica with:
Five Features of a “Reliable Spouse”
1) He can’t be Tiger Woods,
2) or Jon Gosselin,
3) or Mark Sanford.
4) He also needs to be dependable enough to remind me to TiVo my favorite trashy reality TV shows,
5) and the only thing he should be guilty of stealing is my heart.
Second place is awarded to Emily, and a tie for third place goes to Jen and Megan.
On a cold winter night, there really isn’t anything better than a fire roaring in the fireplace, a sleeved blanket (so your arms don’t get cold when you turn the pages), and a copy of Robert Goolrick’s A Reliable Wife. So, to launch the paperback edition of this ”chillingly good” novel, we decided to create embroidered Algonquin Snuggies for our sales force. Needless to say, they were a big hit!
The Workman Sales Director, CEO, and COO are ready to curl up with a good book in their Algonquin Snuggies.
Click here to read the first chapter. (Snuggie optional. Although recommended.) Watch for the paperback edition of A Reliable Wifein stores on January 5, 2009. (The hardcover is available now, in case you can’t wait that long!)
Too dang cold to go to book group?
