{"id":1369,"date":"2017-03-24T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:18:11","slug":"downfall-in-paperback-on-sale-march-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2017\/03\/24\/downfall-in-paperback-on-sale-march-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Downfall in Paperback on Sale March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fiction readers are generally divided into three separate groups\u2014hardback readers, e-book readers, and paperback readers. \u00a0This is a call out to that very special third group, my devoted paperback readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Downfall<\/i>, Joanna Brady # 17, goes on sale in paperback March 28. \u00a0Back in the old days\u2014thirty or so years ago\u2014the paperback edition of a previous book came out about the same time as the new hardback. \u00a0Now though, with two publishing houses involved and hard at work, those lines are blurring a bit. \u00a0I\u2019ll be out doing events for the newest Ali Reynolds, <i>Man Overboard<\/i>, at the same time Joanna\u2019s <i>Downfall<\/i> is showing up on shelves in bookstores. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I believe my mother, the imitable Evie Busk, would have called this \u201ckilling two birds with one stone.\u201d \u00a0Boy, do I ever miss my mother sometimes, although her words are always alive and well and floating around in my head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A word of warning, however. \u00a0In the back of the paperback edition of <i>Downfall<\/i>, readers will find a print copy of my novella\u2014<i>Random Acts<\/i>. \u00a0Please read <i>Random Acts<\/i> BEFORE you read the novel itself. \u00a0Even though the novella is printed at the back of the book, the action inside predates the action in<i> Downfall<\/i> by a couple of days. \u00a0I know reading the afterword first is counter-intuitive\u2014sort of like eating dessert without having first cleaned your plate. \u00a0(Eating everything on your plate before having dessert was something else that was very high on Evie\u2019s list of priorities.) \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Maybe, in this instance, we&#8217;ll go for J. A. Jance\u2019s take on the matter instead. I say, \u201cLife is uncertain; eat dessert first!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Whatever you do and however you do it, enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">JAJ<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiction readers are generally divided into three separate groups\u2014hardback readers, e-book readers, and paperback readers. \u00a0This is a call out to that very special third group, my devoted paperback readers. 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