David Baldacci: On the Web

David’s novel Stone Cold is mentioned in a post titled “The Long and the Short of The Long Tail” on the Six Pixels of Separation blog, which comments on a Harvard Business Review article.

In a typical year, Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books) goes to market with 275 to 300 book titles spread across two catalogs—its fall and winter lists. For each list the company identifies the handful of books it believes have the greatest sales potential and gives them the full benefit of its marketing capabilities. Of those, it spotlights just two ‘make’ books, one fiction and one nonfiction, for which the company’s publisher is willing, in her words, to ‘pull out all the stops.’ In the fall of 2007 those books were David Baldacci’s Stone Cold and Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (and So Can You!)

David’s latest novel, The Whole Truth, features as a sermon illustration in an entry titled “Sam Zumwalt: Vocation” on the Awakenings blog.

In David Baldacci’s latest novel, The Whole Truth, Nicholas Creel is a billionaire arms dealer with a grand vision for humanity. Creel wants to bring back the Cold War, so that major superpowers will return to the old balance of power achieved by the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction.

David is listed among other participants in October’s James River Writers’ Conference in an article titled “James River Writers’ Session Draws Big Names” in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Appearances by best-selling authors David Baldacci, Adriana Trigiani and Diane Mott Davidson will highlight the sixth annual James River Writers’ Conference in October.

David is mentioned in an article titled “‘Devil May Care,’ But Readers Won’t” about the latest novel in the James Bond series in The Mercury News [San Jose, CA].

But the novels are different, and “Devil May Care” exposes all the potential hazards. There are two main audiences for a Bond book in 2008: those loyal to the Cold War-era 007, and those who, while paying proper homage to Bond, are devotees of more modern thrill writers in the Robert Ludlum-Jack Higgins style, such as Vince Flynn and David Baldacci.

David is mentioned in an article titled “Literary Life” in the London Telegraph.

David Baldacci has paid his British publicist, Katie James of Macmillan, a back-handed compliment by including a character named after her in his forthcoming thriller, The Whole Truth.

David’s latest novel, The Whole Truth, is reviewed in a post on Balaji’s Thots.

As always, Baldacci keeps us turning the pages. Whether its Creel’s plans, the PR firm’s execution of the plans, Shaw’s assignments or Shaw-Katie’s pursuit of Creel once they understand the plan, the pace never lags.

David is listed among other authors whose works are now available using the newly-adopted EPUB standard for electronic books (eBooks) in a WebWire release titled “New eBook Standard Now Available for Mass Market Audience.”

Bestselling authors with select titles now available in the new Adobe EPUB based format include – in addition to Elizabeth Hoyt – James Patterson, Jimmy Buffett, David Sedaris, Stephenie Meyer, David Baldacci, Tom Rob Smith, Jane Porter, Susan Crandall, Carol Higgins Clark, Deborah Bedford.

David’s participation in ThrillerFest 2008 is mentioned in a post titled “Come to ThrillerFest” on The Writer’s Perspective by Maria Schneider.

Sandra Brown is the Thriller Master this year and will be delivering a keynote speech. I’m getting the chance to interview Brown, as well as Brad Thor, M.J. Rose, David Baldacci and more, and we’ll be offering free videos of those interviews soon.

David’s novel Total Control is reviewed in a post titled “Readings: Federal Investigations, Dinosaurs and Subway Muggings” on the HeD t.r.i.p. blog.

Just out down David Baldacci’s Total Control. It’s a story that moves on from an investigation of a plane crash to a case of industrial espionage gone horribly wrong, and moves onto a far bigger conspiracy.

David’s latest novel, The Whole Truth, is “digested” (and lampooned) in 400 words in The Guardian’s “Digested Read.” You can read the summary on The Guardian’s Website and listen to the Digested Read podcast.

Creel rubbed his hands on his 23,019-metre yacht as a border skirmish broke out between Russian and Chinese troops. Oil was up to $130 a barrel. The world was in crisis. Just as well no one in the book realised that was actually a $9 fall.