Jim Fusilli: January 2008 Archives
It's won the 'audioboook of the year' award from January Magazine, and selected as one of the top titles of 2007 by AudioFile. Editor Jim Fusilli goes behind the scenes of the unique audio project that captured the imaginations of thriller listeners this year.If I may say so, I knew "The Chopin Manuscript" was going to be a success from the moment I heard about the project. Not that I knew our "serial thriller" would win awards, but I knew it would work as a story when M.J. Rose told me Jeff Deaver would be writing the first chapter, thus establishing a savvy, reader-friendly template for us to follow. Sure enough, his opening was so strong that I asked M.J. if we were being fair to Jeff by requesting he donate it to us. "He's given us one of his best sellers," I told her.
I had the fairly naïve notion that anyone I called would immediately agree to contribute. When I read Jeff's chapter, which is set in Eastern Europe, I thought of David Hewson, hoping he'd bring the story into Italy. David agreed, and turned in his chapter within 48 hours, writing it while he was on a book tour. It brought us to Washington D.C., and I thought, Who better to pick up the tale than James Grady, author of "Six Days of the Condor," the quintessential spy story set in our nation's capital. Now we were off and running.
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