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Two y ears ago, The Northern Times (the weekly newspaper for Sutherland and the North Highlands of Scotland) did a feature article on my then-new novel, The Survival of Thomas Ford’s release, entitled, “The Literary Survival of John Logan”: http://www.northern-times.co.uk/Features/The-literary-survival-of-John-Logan-17022012.htm Later in 2012, when I released Storm Damage, the newspaper did another article on that book. When I released my new novel, Agency Woman, last month, quite a bit of time had gone by since the last book release, so I wondered if they would remember me… On Friday 28 February, though, The Northern Times ran a feature on Agency Woman’s release in their Arts and Lifestyle/Books section. Here is the article, reproduced by kind permission of reporter, Caroline McMorran, and The Northern Times: North author writes ‘probably the first thriller set in Achriesgill’ NORTH author John A A Logan has chosen the tiny north west Sutherland...

By April, the $1300 I’d made from a Christmas promo of The Survival of Thomas Ford had come in from Amazon. I was faced again with the decision of whether to risk/invest some of that money back into advertising for Thomas Ford…or, on the other hand, whether to “take this money and run…” I’d heard some interesting things about Bookbub: http://home.bookbub.com/home/ In particular, the great results Ingrid Ricks had had with a Bookbub promo for her memoir, FOCUS, made me feel this would be worth a try: http://www.amazon.com/FOCUS-A-Memoir-ebook/dp/B009WCYXY6/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1370449480&sr=1-3&keywords=focus I knew categorization might present problems.   The Survival of Thomas Ford has always been received by some readers as a mystery/thriller, and others as literary fiction, and then by some others as a “literary thriller” (this hybrid interpretation of Ford goes right back to 2010 when it was represented by MBA Literary...