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NY Times Bestseller and a Debut Novel in DailyLit’s Book Channel This Week

The first title in the Book Channel this week is Ali Shaw’s gorgeous debut novel The Girl With Glass Feet. I first heard of this book through this glowing New York Times review and fell in love with the book myself as I read it. It’s a beautifully told modern fairy tale–there is literally a girl with glass feet–and I hope you’ll enjoy this taste of the book.

We also have an excerpt of Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget, a New York Times bestseller. In fact, the Times called it “necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace.” Given that the web is already reshaping the way DailyLit readers read, I thought this would be a thought-provoking pick for the Book Channel.

Sign up for the DailyLit Book Channel for hand-picked recommendations and excerpts from great books like those selected for Oprah’s book club and the newest titles from bestselling authors.

The Lovely Bones in DailyLit’s Book Channel

As the film adaptation hits theaters this week, Alice Sebold’s bestselling book The Lovely Bones is back in the news. It is an unusual novel, told from the perspective of a dead girl who watches events unfold from somewhere beyond earth as we know it. It is, however, as hopeful and beautiful a story as you will find. Enjoy this excerpt in our Book Channel, but please note that it is an intense scene that includes the beginning of a physical assault.

Bestselling Author Elizabeth Kostova’s New Book in DailyLit’s Book Channel

Elizabeth Kostova, author of the bestselling hit The Historian, has just published her newest book, The Swan Thieves, and we’ve got an excerpt to share with you in our Book Channel.  Thanks to an advance copy I’ve already read the book and can tell you that this excerpt, which showcases Kostova’s beautiful prose and reveals the beginning of a captivating mystery, is a great taste of the novel. It’s  already received numerous glowing reviews, and you can count mine among them! I enjoyed reading this book and hope you will too.

Pulitzer Prize Winner Anne Tyler in DailyLit’s Book Channel

Our Book Channel is dedicated to bringing you new and noteworthy books, and there’s nothing more noteworthy this week than the publication of Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author Anne Tyler’s newest novel Noah’s Compass. It’s a work that’s coming up in bookish conversations this week, so take a taste of the novel with the excerpt we’ve found for you and see what it’s all about.

Follow DailyLit Authors on Twitter

We’ve made it easy to follow our contemporary authors on Twitter: check out our DailyLit Contemporary Authors Twitter List. Favorites like Cory Doctorow, Grammar Girl (aka Mignon Fogarty), Emeril, and others are all using Twitter to share news and bits of their lives with followers. That’s really the great part about Twitter–it gives you the chance to hear from and interact with writers in a new way. (Well, not the classics–we won’t raise those authors from the dead but we do have something in the works, so stay tuned.) Follow our list and let the writers know you’re reading them on DailyLit–who doesn’t like to know their work is appreciated?

If you spot a contemporary DailyLit author on Twitter that we’ve missed, let us know at support [at] dailylit [dot] ! Try as we might, we’re not perfect.

Special Guest Contributor Sara Nelson in DailyLit’s Book Channel Today

Today we featured Sara Nelson’s second guest column for the DailyLit Book Channel. Sara, as former editor of Publishers Weekly, author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time, and the current Books Director for O, the Oprah Magazine, knows good books, and this week’s column is no exception. Here she reviews Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks by Susan Casey and provides an excerpt for you so you can have a taste of the book yourself. (Or, given that the book is about sharks, maybe a “bite” of the book is more appropriate?) Read it here. Enjoy!

Enter Our Reader Challenge with Guest Judge Anne Rice

For this month’s creative challenge, “Encounter with an Angel,” we’re delighted to welcome guest judge Anne Rice, whose new book Angel Time recently debuted. As you might guess from the title, the challenge asks you to describe an encounter with an angel–fictional or real–in no more than 50 words. Anne Rice will be reading your entries and selecting her three favorites, whose writers will each receive a signed copy of her new book. You have until the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2009 (11:59pm EST) to submit your entry for judging here. Good luck!

Sara Nelson Named Special Guest Contributor to DailyLit’s Book Channel.

I’m thrilled to announce that Sara Nelson is our first guest contributor for DailyLit’s Book Channel. Sara is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time. From 2005 to 2009, she was editor in chief of Publishers Weekly and is currently the Books Director for O, the Oprah Magazine.

Sara is one of the women I admire most—she’s smart, genuine, and, with her refreshingly direct voice, will be sure to tell you what’s on her mind. She’ll be recommending books we should be reading (or at least know about). Check out her first column here—and receive her series (for free) by signing up for DailyLit’s Book Channel.

DailyLit News: December 2009

Note from the CEO
DailyLit is now 100% free! That’s right. You heard me. It’s a new era for DailyLit—we’ve ditched the books for pay but will keep our focus on offering you the highest quality books and stories. And with the holidays upon us, remember, you can send any DailyLit book or story (maybe one with a holiday theme?) as a fun free gift to your friends (with your own personalized message in each installment). And if you go away, you can temporarily suspend your book and have it automatically resume for when you get back.
Happy Holidays!

Susan Danziger
Founder and CEO, DailyLit
sdanziger[at]dailylit[dot]com

DailyLit: Now 100% FREE
We’ve been listening to our readers, and it’s clear that you most appreciate the books we’ve made available for free. So starting now, every book, story and series featured on DailyLit will be 100% free. We’ll be relying on sponsors to help support DailyLit so let us know of any sponsors who may be interested at sponsor[at]dailylit[dot]com. And please pass it on—DailyLit books are now 100% FREE!

New! Book Channel
DailyLit Selects—our series of excerpts from new and noteworthy books—is becoming DailyLit’s Book Channel. We’ll be featuring pieces from special guest contributor Sara Nelson, author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time (and former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly, currently the Books Director for O, the Oprah Magazine). And we’ve also got book recommendations from “Gotham Gal”, hailed as the “woman around town.” All free, of course. Read it.

DailyLit’s Big Read: A Christmas Carol
The choice for this month’s Big Read is a natural. Join us in celebrating the season by reading Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. Need I say it? It’s FREE. Read it.

New Reads (All Free!)
—The Book of the Shepherd: Just in time for the holidays comes The Book of the Shepherd, a parable for modern minds that comes “highly recommended for anyone interested in personal spirituality.” Read it.
—New story by Laurel Dewey: In Anonymous, the third original Jane Perry story, the heroine encounters a woman with a harrowing story to tell—and a mystery that runs far deeper than Jane at first realizes. Read it. (Missed the first two Jane Perry stories? Find them here.)

Reader Challenge—Guest Judge Anne Rice
With the holidays upon us and angels getting their wings in re-runs of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” this month’s creative challenge centers around angels. In exactly 50 words, tell a story of an encounter with an angel. Anne Rice, whose book Angel Time recently debuted, will be our guest judge this month. She’ll select her three favorites, each of whom will win a signed copy of Angel Time. Post your encounters in our Reader Challenge Forum no later than 11:59pm EST on December 31st.

Take Our Survey (you could win advance copy of major novel)
We need your help in supporting our move to be 100% free. Please take our short reader survey, which will help us attract new books and sponsors to our site. To sweeten the deal, we’ll be giving advance reader copies of internationally best-selling author Henning Mankell’s new book, The Man from Beijing, to five people who complete the survey. Take the survey.

Winners of Profile Picture Drive

In our November newsletter we encouraged our readers who hadn’t yet uploaded a personal profile picture to do so. We love our readers and want to make our community as friendly as we can. And, it didn’t hurt that we promised we’d pick five readers at random who did have a profile picture by our deadline (November 22) and send them a copy of John Grisham’s new book, Ford County (you can check out one of the stories from the book here).

Lots of you responded and we’re delighted to announce that californiaaaaa, dalelyles, flu9604, DirectorJ and SaraJO123 will all receive a free copy of the book. Check out their profiles to see their pics–and what they’ve been reading.

Thanks to all of you for helping make DailyLit a friendly place to chat about books. We hope you’ll keep it up!

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