New York Times Bestselling Author Eric Jerome Dickey on the New Book, his Career and the Book Biz

In the guest chair:

Eric Jerome Dickey and Dana Barrett

New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey joined me to talk about his new book A WANTED WOMAN, his appearance tomorrow night in Atlanta, his career and the business of being an author.

You can meet Eric at the Stonecrest Library tomorrow night 4/15 – at 7PM!
For info on the event: http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/Events/show.php?id=682

And here’s a link the publishing industry statistics we talked about on the show: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/61667-book-sales-rose-1-in-2013.html

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• Atlanta says goodbye to a legend.  Traffic Reporter Captain Herb Emory passed away this weekend.  I worked with Herb when I first started in radio and never met a more gracious, friendly, open and helpful guy.  He will be missed.
• Another Atlanta MARTA train station is being showcased as a potential site for new mixed-use development.
• JEZEBEL’s Best of Atlanta 2014 is out – we’ll give you a few of the highlights.
• Falcons owner Arthur Blank weighs in on the Braves move to Cobb County.
• And some of the country’s largest corporations – including several here in Atlanta… won’t be paying taxes on trillions of dollars of profits they earned from their overseas businesses.