Da Vinci slips
The Da Vinci Code has been knocked off, finally, from the #1 spot on the L.A. Times fiction bestseller list. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason has moved up from #2. Don't expect the Da Vinci paperback to land any day soon though. Dan Brown's thriller only fell one notch and has been somewhere on the LAT list for 68 weeks; Brown's Angels & Demons tops the paperback bestsellers. On the other coast, The Da Vinci Code had slipped to #2 on the New York Times list last week, but returned to #1 again today by trading places with James Patterson's Sam's Letters to Jennifer.
The Sunday NYT also revisits the case of Jeopardy wunderbrain Ken Jennings, and quotes a cognition scientist noting that while he's probably no genius, Jennings is playing with so much confidence now (after 33 wins and more than $1 million) that "he's going to have to have a terrible day for someone to beat him." Also in the Sunday NYT, Los Angeles Magazine senior editor R.J. Smith chronicles the musical tributes to the late Elliott Smith.
8:56 PM Sunday, July 18 2004 •
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Barnes & Noble's #1 True Crime Biography
With James Bond 007 music playing in the background, WFLA 1270 AM The Morning Show radio anchor Preston Scott introduced the former IBM Director of Corporate Business Intelligence, Sydney Newman Dotson, as a female corporate spy turned detective in Tallahassee Florida at 8 am this morning.
Jan D'Atri, radio anchor of The Jan D'Atri Show on KFYI AM 550 in Phoeniz, Arizona, will introduce Dotson to her listeners at 2 pm to 4pm Saturday, July 31 at the Desert Ridge Marketplace.
Dotson's debut book, "No Greater Deception, A True Texas Story," skyrocketed to #1 on the Barnes & Noble Top 10 True Crime Biography Bestseller List this week.
"Making the Top 10 Bestseller List is wonderful. Being #1 is outstanding," says Dotson. "I hope Random House, HarperCollins and St. Martin's publishers are watching. They missed the opportunity to pick me up under their title and imprint. I self-published this book."
Barnes & Noble and Borders Bookstores were not prepared to meet the demand for this tell-all book written by a police chief's daughter. Customers were often told the book is "not in stock" or "not available."
Dotson's book is available on over 100 websites across the world including Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com.
A woman from Galveston said, "I can't wait to read this book. I think I will be able to figure out the real name of Dotson's father."
"I want to find out if her father had anything to do with the JFK assassination," said a Dallas man.
"I want to read about the evil stepmother," says a gift shop owner in Kemah.
"I refuse to be a victim of identity theft by my stepmother. I'm a survivor", says Dotson. "You can ruin my credit, but don't steal my inheritance. I hope sharing my story with others will help prevent future identity thefts, forgeries and fraud across the country."
"It's a real-life Texas Soap Opera of Love, Death, Betrayal and Justice," says Liz Carpenter, author and Lady Bird Johnson's WHITE HOUSE Press Secretary.
In "No Greater Deception, A True Texas Story, Dotson's stepmother forges several family members' wills, and is implicated in their mysterious deaths.
Dotson has been seen on The NBC Today Show and PBS. She's currently speaking on radio station Talk Shows as an Identity Theft Expert. Detectives, profilers and handwriting experts are using her book as a textbook case study on identity theft and the criminal mind of a Black Widow forger.
"No Greater Deception, A True Texas Story" is available on 100 websites across the world including Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, Office Depot, TARGET and WALMART websites.
Contact: Sydney Dotson Productions, 214-358-3080, www.NoGreaterDeception.com
Barnes & Noble's #1 True Crime Biography
With James Bond 007 music playing in the background, WFLA 1270 AM The Morning Show radio anchor Preston Scott introduced the former IBM Director of Corporate Business Intelligence, Sydney Newman Dotson, as a female corporate spy turned detective in Tallahassee Florida at 8 am this morning.
Jan D'Atri, radio anchor of The Jan D'Atri Show on KFYI AM 550 in Phoeniz, Arizona, will introduce Dotson to her listeners at 2 pm to 4pm Saturday, July 31 at the Desert Ridge Marketplace.
Dotson's debut book, "No Greater Deception, A True Texas Story," skyrocketed to #1 on the Barnes & Noble Top 10 True Crime Biography Bestseller List this week.
"Making the Top 10 Bestseller List is wonderful. Being #1 is outstanding," says Dotson. "I hope Random House, HarperCollins and St. Martin's publishers are watching. They missed the opportunity to pick me up under their title and imprint. I self-published this book."
Barnes & Noble and Borders Bookstores were not prepared to meet the demand for this tell-all book written by a police chief's daughter. Customers were often told the book is "not in stock" or "not available."
Dotson's book is available on over 100 websites across the world including Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com.
A woman from Galveston said, "I can't wait to read this book. I think I will be able to figure out the real name of Dotson's father."
"I want to find out if her father had anything to do with the JFK assassination," said a Dallas man.
"I want to read about the evil stepmother," says a gift shop owner in Kemah.
"I refuse to be a victim of identity theft by my stepmother. I'm a survivor", says Dotson. "You can ruin my credit, but don't steal my inheritance. I hope sharing my story with others will help prevent future identity thefts, forgeries and fraud across the country."
"It's a real-life Texas Soap Opera of Love, Death, Betrayal and Justice," says Liz Carpenter, author and Lady Bird Johnson's WHITE HOUSE Press Secretary.
In "No Greater Deception, A True Texas Story, Dotson's stepmother forges several family members' wills, and is implicated in their mysterious deaths.
Dotson has been seen on The NBC Today Show and PBS. She's currently speaking on radio station Talk Shows as an Identity Theft Expert. Detectives, profilers and handwriting experts are using her book as a textbook case study on identity theft and the criminal mind of a Black Widow forger.
"No Greater Deception, A True Texas Story" is available on 100 websites across the world including Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, Office Depot, TARGET and WALMART websites.
Contact: Sydney Dotson Productions, 214-358-3080, www.NoGreaterDeception.com
Posted by: Sydney Newman Dotson at July 28, 2004 01:28 PM