For Dan Brown, fame is ‘a double-edged sword’ - TODAY: Book news
msnbc.msn.com 9/15/2009 — It’s good to be a famous author, Dan Brown has discovered. After the phenomenal success of his previous novels, including “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons,” Brown now has people coming to him eager to spill the secrets of such ...

Dan Brown Let Me Down
ageofuncertainty.blogspot.com 9/2/2009 — There are many reasons why I glad that I'm no longer working for Waterstone's, but if I started listing them I'd probably sound like a bitter old tart. So let's just pick one reason: I can completely ignore the new Dan Brown book, which is being released in two week's time: I see that at least ...

Hold the front page! Dan Brown cover reveals things we already knew
guardian.co.uk 7/8/2009 — The Washington-set Lost Symbol will be set in, wait for it, Washington I blame JK Rowling. Her Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury kicked off the trend of "releasing" book covers to eager fans months ahead of publication of the book itself, and now ...

Can you crack the Dan Brown code? | Books
guardian.co.uk 9/15/2009 — Man of mystery ... The Lost Symbol author Dan Brown. Photograph: AGF srl / Rex 1. Who is Dan Brown? A bestselling author A celebrator of the Sacred Feminine A failed singer-songwriter All of the above 2. Which is the correct outfit for Brown’s hero, ...

True confession: I don't hate Dan Brown
guardian.co.uk 9/18/2009 — In fact, I feel more than a little empathy with the literary world's most reviled man At first, I got swept up in the spirit: there's great fun in being united with other people in common dislike, so when the buzz on Twitter amongst publishing types ...

Adventures in Book Marketing with Simon Kernick's DEADLINE
sarahweinman.com 7/23/2009 — Right now is not the time for authors to settle for traditional ways of book promotion, i.e. hoping and praying that their newest book on offer will be noticed and magically sell copies. Publishers are also trying to figure out creative and ...

Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol
knopfdoubleday.com 7/7/2009 — The Lost Symbol Cover THE LOST SYMBOL by Dan Brown The Lost Symbol , available wherever books are sold on 9.15.09, once again features Dan Brown’s unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon. The book’s narrative takes place in a twelve-hour period, and ...

The interactive Dan Brown plot generator.
slate.com 9/15/2009 — At the stroke of midnight on Tuesday, renowned author Dan Brown will publish The Lost Symbol, his fifth novel and the third to star Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. Early reviews report that Brown's new thriller has all the elements that made The ...

Insight | This is your brain on Dan Brown
thestar.com 9/13/2009 — Sarah Barmak Special to the Star Robert Langdon, hero of Dan Brown's runaway 2003 bestseller The Da Vinci Code , may be a brilliant academic, but he often seems a bit dim. Throughout the novel, he gets so flustered that he remains in the dark about ...

Amazing Race November 15
debbiesworldofbooks.com 18 days ago — They take off… Flight Time and Big Easy are the first to depart at 2:23am. Teams have to travel by ferry across the Baltic Sea to Tallinn, Estonia. Once there they need to figure out how to open the door to a certain building to find their next clue. I’m guessing no ferries ...

In the News: Kerouac’s Estate, Cheap Blago — The Book Bench 7/29/2009
The critic Daniel Mendelsohn is writing a book about Greek literature. The control of Jack Kerouac's estate is in question after a judge in Florida ruled that his mother's will was fraudulent. Amazon is offering discounts on early ...

The Gathering Storm — NYT > Books 8/1/2009
This novel in stories relays the intimate and desperate moments of characters in the path of Hurricane Hugo.