http://www.sjbolton.comumbracoenhttp://www.sjbolton.com/2011/12/12/are-you-ready-yet-.aspx#comment-180Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:11:05 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2011/12/12/are-you-ready-yet-.aspx#comment-180 Dave ]]>http://www.sjbolton.com/2010/9/6/never-as-good-as-the-book-.aspx#comment-71Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:49:41 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2010/9/6/never-as-good-as-the-book-.aspx#comment-71http://www.sjbolton.com/2011/8/29/as-long-as-the-cheques-don't-bounce.aspx#comment-147Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:50:49 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2011/8/29/as-long-as-the-cheques-don't-bounce.aspx#comment-147 And secondly, if we are talking classics... 'there are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls' obviously the beginning of Sacrifice. I know you didn't 'write it', but you used it and it absolutely grabs the reader from the very beginning. And they say genre fiction isn't memorable? It flashes in my mind often, I can quote it, if that isn't that isn't the stuff 'classics' are made of, then I dont know what is.]]>http://www.sjbolton.com/2011/8/29/as-long-as-the-cheques-don't-bounce.aspx#comment-146Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:43:47 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2011/8/29/as-long-as-the-cheques-don't-bounce.aspx#comment-146
Personally, I've read Classics that I've loved and reread, Classics that I've struggled through and not loved, and Classics that I've instantly forgotten. Likewise, literary fiction. In fact, I'm more likely to read literary fiction books once and then never think about them again (e.g. just about anything that has appeared on the Booker or Orange prize list). At least with genre fiction, I have the advantage of knowing in advance that I'm probably not going to like something (e.g. chick lit or 'celebrity' 'autobiography'), which either lowers my expectations going in, or discourages me from reading it at all.

Basically, I will read just about anything if I think that I will like it and get something out of it, and since I read for me rather than anyone else, I don't particularly care who sees the cover of the book or what they happen to think about it!]]>http://www.sjbolton.com/2010/7/25/is-this-a-dagger-i-see….aspx#comment-55Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:44:21 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2010/7/25/is-this-a-dagger-i-see….aspx#comment-55
Yes, a dagger would be fabulous, but I have to keep telling myself the honour is in the nomination - especially as the competition is pretty stiff. ]]>http://www.sjbolton.com/2011/5/23/jack-the-ripper---man-or-myth-6.aspx#comment-117Mon, 30 May 2011 17:16:59 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2011/5/23/jack-the-ripper---man-or-myth-6.aspx#comment-117
Very best

Sharon ]]>http://www.sjbolton.com/2011/5/28/a-tale-of-two-launch-parties.aspx#comment-116Mon, 30 May 2011 17:14:52 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2011/5/28/a-tale-of-two-launch-parties.aspx#comment-116
Best!]]>http://www.sjbolton.com/2012/1/30/vive-la-difference.aspx#comment-186Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:36:16 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2012/1/30/vive-la-difference.aspx#comment-186
If you ever do decide to write something following in all the other crime writers footsteps with the standard police procedural without all the great stuff that makes you S J Bolton, please please please please stop what you are doing and have a skim through Sacrifice and Awakening and then hit delete and start again doing what you do best!! Your novels, especially your first two or three are so original, different, 'nuts' and just really, really good! Sacrifice is the sort of book you finish and then turn it over and start reading it again straight away. So while it's good at times to fit in, be accepted and conform I think that if what you do puts you a cut above the rest, makes you shine, stand out and makes others aspire to being more like you than making you want to be like them, then take that gift and run with it and never look back! ]]>http://www.sjbolton.com/2012/1/30/vive-la-difference.aspx#comment-185Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:19:19 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2012/1/30/vive-la-difference.aspx#comment-185
I just want to write a quick note to you, to say thank you. I was with my boyfriend at the time, and he suggested i read a book. I said "don't be stupid" as i did not like reading at all.

However he got in the bath and i thought oh what the hell i will have a quick read. Well that was it once i picked up The Awakening i could not put it down. The Sacrifice was read in 2 days and i am looking forward to read your, Blood Harvest.

I must get your other books in i have not had a look to see what you have out now. Your writing is enchanted creepy and make I the reader wanting more and more.

Never mind what other people says, you started me reading and your keeping me reading and i thank you for it. Scott Monsoon. ]]>http://www.sjbolton.com/2010/2/15/destined-to-be-gothic-(1).aspx#comment-80Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:43:22 GMThttp://www.sjbolton.com/2010/2/15/destined-to-be-gothic-(1).aspx#comment-80
I've just posted the jacket for Now You See Me on the blog. Hope it whets your appetite a bit.

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