Originally, I'd hoped to call this blog something more straightforward, like Backlist.com. Unfortunately, or possibly even fortunately, as it may signify another like-minded soul, it's been taken.
At any rate, I work in an independent bookstore, and I think a lot about things like backlist, midlist, frontlist. Frontlist just means very recently published books. Backlist is everything else. I'm a slow reader. By the time I'm ready to comment on something, it's inevitably lost it's shiny newness. Having enjoyed a brief stint as a frontlist reviewer before my local paper decided that it could largely do without such things, I thought,like everyone else in the universe, "Well, maybe I'll start a blog..."
THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, second bite of the apple for a story I neglected in
2014
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*THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD BILL HILLMANN*
Tortoise Books (*non-affiliate* Bookshop.org link)
$9.99 ebook, available now
Rating: 3.75* of five
*The Publisher ...
19 hours ago
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