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Tragic End to Tracy Girl’s Disappearance

April 7, 2009
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update, via KCRA3: Police have not named any suspects in the case and Sgt. Tony Sheneman insisted Tuesday that Lawless “is not at the center of the investigation and never was.” He added that he was dismayed to hear media reports that the pastor was a main suspect. “He has been interviewed as have hundreds of people,” Sheneman said. “Everyone that we speak to could be considered a person of interest. We have no specific person that we are looking at at this time.” Eight-year-old Sandra Cantu’s body was found by farm workers draining an irrigation pond Monday morning...

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Pleasanton, Saturday

March 27, 2009
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I’ll be speaking Saturday, March 28, at Lynnewood Methodist Church in Pleasanton. This will be a fundraising event, sponsored by P.E.O. International. Towne Center Books will be on hand to sell copies of The Year of Fog and No One You Know, with part of the proceeds to benefit P.E.O. women’s scholarships. 1:00 – 3:00.

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PW Bestselling Paperbacks

March 26, 2009
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This week, Publishers Weekly rounds up the bestselling paperbacks of 2008. Topping the list at a whopping 5,298,355 copies sold in 2008 is Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, followed closely by William P. Young’s The Shack at 4,432,439, and Three Cups of Tea at 1,346,204. Barack Obama’s books round off the 1 million plus list. The list is further broken down into trade paperback and mass market paperback, divided into categories of numbers sold: 1million+, 750,000+, 500,000+, 250,000+, and 100,00+. The Year of Fog appears considerably lower on the list than A New Earth, at 217,069 trade paperbacks sold...

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Getting closer…

March 25, 2009
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It’s beginning to feel official. THE YEAR OF FOG is featured in Newmarket Films‘ “Coming Soon” category. Here’s a Newmarket post from March 1: WHO WILL EMERGE FROM THE FOG? Newmarket begins casting suspense thriller Newmarket’s next production, THE YEAR OF FOG, is now casting. Based on the New York Times best-seller by Michelle Richmond, THE YEAR OF FOG is a suspense thriller about a young woman driven to prove the facts in the case of a child’s disappearance. “We are very excited by the prospects of casting, as well as by the attachment of director Karen Moncrief,” said...

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2009 Northern California Book Awards

March 23, 2009
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I’m popping the champagne cork today. (Okay, not yet, I’m at home alone at 10:00 in the morning, so champagne would be entirely inappropriate, right? Oh, but there’s the trusty mimosa: champagne delivered with just enough OJ to make it a bona fide breakfast item.) NO ONE YOU KNOW has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction. The fiction nominees are: * Lady Lazarus, Andrew Foster Altschul, Harcourt * Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain, Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill * The Delivery Room, Sylvia Brownrigg, Counterpoint * Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein ,...

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