Whee! My Book Is Out!
In the spirit of the Ricochet Free Market, I'd like to let you all know that my novel, a murder mystery, is now available for purchase in paperback and for the Kindle. It's called A Falling Knife. The main players are Wall Street people, scientists, and mathematicians -- people I tend to find extremely interesting in real life, and who are generally either cartoonishly represented in genre fiction or incidental to the story. I wanted to give them center stage, and to give the reader a good, old-fashioned mystery to boot -- a knotty central puzzle, clues, red herrings, the whole megilla.
Here's the back cover text:
In a landscape strewn with dollars, how do you catch a killer who's playing for higher stakes than money?
Ex-detective Evan Adair has a gift for working out how the dead got that way, but the truth never brought anybody back. After twenty-three years at the NYPD and a devastating private loss, he wants no part of another investigation.
But an old colleague comes calling with a tantalizing riddle. A Wall Street wunderkind, a young quant with everything to live for, has taken a bizarre public dive from an opera balcony. Was the fall his own idea? And his injuries, as it turns out, weren't enough to kill him. So how -- and why -- did he die?
Soon there is another death, this one a vicious knife attack. The dual investigation draws Adair into the byzantine worlds of finance and high-stakes biotech. He finds secrets with long histories and numbers that can talk -- if only he can figure out how to listen.
I published it as Judith Deborah -- Deborah's my middle name -- to differentiate my fiction from my nonfiction. I entered the brave new world of self-publishing with this book, and plan to write about the reasons for that decision, the results, and the broader implications of an indie movement that compares in some interesting respects to indie moviemaking and musicmaking. I can tell you that so far, before any results are in, I have loved every step of the self-publishing process. I was responsible for every decision, right down to the shape of the squiggle that separates scenes, and I really, really like it that way.
I hope you'll give A Falling Knife a look, and also visit the website I'm launching today, www.judithdeborah.com. You'll find more background there about the book and about me. I'll be keeping a blog there, too -- a non-political one -- which I hope you'll visit if you're in the mood to chat about movies, food, books, cocktails, new media, baffling celebrity fashion choices, and more.
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May '10
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Congratulations! I just bought the Kindle version.
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Thank you! Enjoy it!
Aug '11
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Congratulations Judith! I too just purchased the Kindle version.
Feb '11
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Thank you for writing and posting, I just purchased a Kindle version of the novel, please let us hear your publishing and authorial insights in the days to come!
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I appreciate that, Jon. And I plan to direct everyone who asks me where to find a tour guide to you.
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It'd be my pleasure. Enjoy it!
Nov '11
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Judith -- I really like the design, structure and content of your website. I notice a credit to DesignForWriters (Circus?), but sites never come out this well without a good, involved client. Splendid job; congratulations.
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It's very kind of you to say so. I had a wonderful time working with Andrew Brown, the very talented guy who runs DesignForWriters. I'd never worked so closely with a designer before, and it was incredibly interesting to watch him come up with visuals that so closely aligned with what I wanted to achieve in terms of mood, attitude, and so on, for both the site and the book cover. I'll pass along your words.
Sep '10
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Audiobook. Audiobook. We need an audiobook version soon.
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As soon as I can figure out how the heck to use Garageband, we're there, Pseud.
Sep '10
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Judith Levy
As soon as I can figure out how the heck to use Garageband, we're there, Pseud. · Jan 3 at 5:23am
I have something that may help. Check your PM's on social media. I apologize ahead of time for the smell of day old tuna and tender vittles.
Aug '11
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Judith Levy
As soon as I can figure out how the heck to use Garageband, we're there, Pseud. · Jan 3 at 5:23am
Garageband? Are you going to record a musical version?
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jonorose
Judith Levy
As soon as I can figure out how the heck to use Garageband, we're there, Pseud.
Garageband? Are you going to record a musical version?
Garageband has a "make a podcast" option, which I thought I'd use to make a kind of serial audiobook. I even found the intro/outro music I want to use! But it's hard to describe the depth of my ineptitude when it comes to mastering any kind of computer program, no matter how intuitively it's laid out. I don't have a clue what I'm doing, in other words. (Haven't given up though.)
Feb '11
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Thanks for the information about Garageband...there is someone more inept at computers than you (many more)! The first chapter of the novel was great, now I must, MUST go off to work...also, did you use a formatting company or software to help with the digital typesetting?
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I used a company (eBook Architects). I am unbelievably ill-equipped to try something like converting a 400-page document into a digital format. The very thought gives me the willies.
Aug '11
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Judith Levy
jonorose
Judith Levy
As soon as I can figure out how the heck to use Garageband, we're there, Pseud.
Garageband? Are you going to record a musical version?
Garageband has a "make a podcast" option, which I thought I'd use to make a kind of serial audiobook. I even found the intro/outro music I want to use! But it's hard to describe the depth of my ineptitude when it comes to mastering any kind of computer program, no matter how intuitively it's laid out. I don't have a clue what I'm doing, in other words. (Haven't given up though.) · Jan 3 at 5:41am
I had no idea Garageband had that feature.... good to know!
Jun '10
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Just a note:
In my firefox browser, I'm seeing this:
I’m Judith Deborah, and I’m a writer — of ction, primarily, but not exclusively. I’m also something of a domestic sensualist, to borrow a phrase from Laurie Colwin. As a reader, I’m a great admirer of the well-crafted essay. If I had to grab something to take to a desert island (other than my Wodehouse and my Colwin and my Conan Doyle — would I have any more room?), it might not necessarily be ction, but it’d be something with a cracking good story. [...]
After Oxford, I spent a brief sojourn writing about Israel in Washington, then ran out of money. I came back to New York and grabbed the rst job I could, which turned out to be as a nancial editor at an investment bank. I suspect I envisioned that job as a kind of a bridge loan into my own future, a means of getting back on track. What I didn’t see coming was how much I was going to enjoy it.
For some reason, the "fi" is not showing in my browser. Weird.
Mar '11
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I just bought the Kindle version (to play on my iPad). Here's hoping I find the time to read!
Apr '11
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Ditto etoiledunord. This appeared on every page of your website (I'm also using Firefox). Something about your font not being supported, maybe?
On a happier note, I just put the paperback in my Amazon cart!
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The font is not displaying properly on Firefox. If you have the option, please view the site on any other browser -- Safari, Chrome, Explorer. I've sent an email to Linotype, whose font it is, asking them to sort out the bug as soon as possible. Sorry, everyone.