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More than any other author, it was John Grisham who indirectly caused me to
begin collecting and trading first printings. My friend David and I were
still fairly young and living in Memphis in the early 1980's. It was there
and in Oxford, MS that John Grisham was just leaving his career as an attorney
and gradually becoming a hit with his breakthrough novel The Firm.
Grisham had published a novel previously but... (MORE)
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In 1976 very few people had ever heard of Anne Rice and her breakthrough
novel Interview With the Vampire was not an immediate hit. But shortly
a following began to amass and soon thereafter Anne Rice truly became a
legendary author with her core support expanding far beyond what was once
considered to be just a cult following. Ms. Rice knew that the world's spotlight was... (MORE)
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Stephen King is the undisputed most popular writer in the world! No other
author sells more books, now or in the past... ever! King has been a
pioneer, producing the first ever commercially successful Internet Book
just last year. It was widely reported that there was great surprise that
so many would go to the Internet and either download or listen directly to
an on-line novel. Of even more interest... (MORE)
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J. K. Rowling debuted with her first novel in 1998 releasing her children's tale
of Harry, the typical 9 year old dealing with everyday issues as all children at the age
of 9 do, but he was special in just one way... he was a wizard! That first book
initially printed in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and then later in the US by
Scholastic under the more Americanized name of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone... (MORE)
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| Once considered to be only a regional success, James Lee Burke has proven
those critics wrong. Since his big success of Neon Rain in 1987, Burke
has become a national favorite centered at first around his main character
Dave Robicheaux. Dave isn't your typical hero... (MORE)
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