I am grateful today for all you folks who have read this blog over the past two years. I'm grateful to you for supporting not just me, but crime fiction specifically and reading and literacy in general. I'm grateful people are still interested in books, maybe even more than ever, with publishers selling 2.57 billion books in all formats in 2010, a 4.1 percent increase since 2008, according to the New York Times, and that doesn't even include self-published books. I suspect—I hope—we may be in a new Renaissance of reading, and I give thanks that the written word can still provide both entertainment and meaning in an increasingly fast-paced world.
So thank you—readers of this blog and readers of literature everywhere.
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