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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Re: Whee! My Book Is Out!
And thank you, iWc and Charlotte!
Sep '11
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I once had a similar problem. I think it may be because the characters "fi" when used in print are cast as one character not two, and don't work in digital conversion. Or something. (This is the frontiers of knowledge for me!).
Judith, I've purchased the Kindle edition from the UK site and shall enjoy reading it.
Sep '11
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The Web site is indeed fabulous.
Sep '10
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Fi is what is called a "ligature" in fontspeak, so there is a ligature rendering issue with Firefox.
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The Firefox problem is sorted. It's in a default font now (on Firefox only). If anyone cares to do a side-by-side comparison, open up the site on Firefox in one window and any other browser in another. I'd be interested to hear what people prefer.
Apr '11
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The original font is really lovely, and I prefer it over the Firefox default. But don't worry, the site still looks just great in Firefox!
Oct '10
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Thank you for pricing the Kindle version at a realistic price versus the physical version. I just purchased my copy and look forward to reading it soon.
Sep '10
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Judith, the simplest workaround may be to get ligature turned "off" on the font you are using and then Firefox should be able to render it properly.
May '10
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I bought my copy already!
Sep '10
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Looks interesting. My copy is due to arrive Friday, just in time for the weekend!
Sep '10
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I'd just like to announce that this was the first Main Feed post with the word "Wheeee" in it.
That is all.
May '10
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I finished Judith's book today. It's REALLY GOOD!