Archive for August, 2009

“Forbidden Apple” is NYT Editors’ Choice

Another belated discovery: my book was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection (4/10/09)! I’m thrilled that Susan Dominus is such a fan.

That day she also talked up “The Forbidden Apple” on “New York Times Close Up,” a weekly TV show hosted by Sam Roberts, the editor of the New York Times Book Review, on the local news network NY1.

Thanks Susan!

Adventures in Google

Occasionally I like to do a Google search for myself and see what comes up. It’s a little intimidating to find out how seemingly all over the ‘net I am, but half of those hits are my own doing–my web site (in a state of hiatus), this blog, my Facebook page, my MySpace page, and a lot of web sites I signed up for once and never used again (LinkedIn, I’m looking at you).

Tonight I discovered a review of “The Forbidden Apple” from Publishers Weekly via barnesandnoble.com. My publishers were concerned when the book came out in March that we had not scored a review in PW prior to publication, which they thought bode ill for the book’s sales. It seems that PW did review it as a web-only exclusive on March 16. Here we go: Continue reading ‘Adventures in Google’



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