Question. Do you have preference if a link to the book goes to Amazon and (ideally) boost its presence there, or to the book's site you set up, or direct to Rainy Day or Tattered Books even?
I'm a writer and a writing professor. My first book, Cross-X: A Turbulent, Triumphant Season with an Inner-City Debate Squad, was named one of the best books of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, The Chicago Tribune and Amazon.com. I live in an old house in the Deep South with my wife, two dogs and four cats. I collect wonderful records.
A Chicago TribuneBest Book of the Year
A Publisher's WeeklyBest Book of the Year
One of Kansas City Star's 100 Noteworthy Books of the Year
Winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Harry Chapin Media Award
. . .
Forget the nerdy reputation that debate has. Instead think of a scenario as exciting as a sports game with high stakes like triumphing over racism. bad politics and abject poverty... An important, thoughtful and provocative look at race and class in America.
- The Boston Globe
Joe Miller's enthusiasm is infectious and the plot creates the suspense of a good courtroom thriller.
- Entertainment Weekly
The minute I finished Joe Miller's Cross-X, I held the book out in front of me -- amazed, rapturous, and hopeful... Miller's mesmerizing, vivid accounts of the debates will leave you crouched in your seat, holding your breath... An incredibly powerful, daringly hopeful book.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Irresistible... Miller begins breezily but is soon deeply invested in the Central squad's mission to not only master the debate game on its own terms but revolutionize it with flashes of poetry and hip-hop wordplay... If all these kids could run things, Miller implies, imagine what could get done.
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Goddam!
Excellent!
Question. Do you have preference if a link to the book goes to Amazon and (ideally) boost its presence there, or to the book's site you set up, or direct to Rainy Day or Tattered Books even?
Holy $#@%^! Congratulations Joe!
I've been linking to Book Sense/Tattered Cover or Rainy Day. But Amazon's cool too. Thanks for putting a link up.
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