Thrill Me, Baby
Though as far as we know, no one is mapping the growth rate of organizations for writers, one would have to guess that the International Thriller Writers (ITW) pretty much smokes ’em all.
In a recently circulated membership report, co-membership chairs, authors Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston, announced that at the end of 2004, ITW’s inaugural year, the organization had 21 members. At the end of 2006, ITW had 540 members with combined book sales of “well over two billion.”
And because this is an aggressive young organization representing most of the top thrillerlishcious authors writing today, they’re not about to stop there. The organization’s latest thrilling scheme -- and there are always lots of them afoot -- involves ITW’s e-mail newsletter and 150 member books.
You can enter to win ITW’s latest contest by signing up for their free newsletter. New subscriber’s names are then entered for a chance to win a library of 150 autographed thrillers (that’s no typo) by some of the top thriller authors writing today, including books by Joseph Finder, Tess Gerritsen, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds and David Baldacci.
The subscription form has to be filled in by February 15th and can be found here and you can read more about the contest here. Meanwhile, while your interest is piqued, you can take a tour of the International Thriller Writers Web site and see what all else this thrilling lot is up to. It won’t surprise anyone to know that, with a busload of thriller writers at the helm, this isn’t an organization where anyone spends a lot of time sitting on their hands.
In a recently circulated membership report, co-membership chairs, authors Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston, announced that at the end of 2004, ITW’s inaugural year, the organization had 21 members. At the end of 2006, ITW had 540 members with combined book sales of “well over two billion.”
And because this is an aggressive young organization representing most of the top thrillerlishcious authors writing today, they’re not about to stop there. The organization’s latest thrilling scheme -- and there are always lots of them afoot -- involves ITW’s e-mail newsletter and 150 member books.
You can enter to win ITW’s latest contest by signing up for their free newsletter. New subscriber’s names are then entered for a chance to win a library of 150 autographed thrillers (that’s no typo) by some of the top thriller authors writing today, including books by Joseph Finder, Tess Gerritsen, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds and David Baldacci.
The subscription form has to be filled in by February 15th and can be found here and you can read more about the contest here. Meanwhile, while your interest is piqued, you can take a tour of the International Thriller Writers Web site and see what all else this thrilling lot is up to. It won’t surprise anyone to know that, with a busload of thriller writers at the helm, this isn’t an organization where anyone spends a lot of time sitting on their hands.
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