Press office: one lie can sometimes hide another

Book reviewing is a time-consuming activity, but above all it requires a good back. After all, with all those stacks of books to receive, you're bound to get stiff! However, before the novels arrive in their envelopes, the publishing houses have to respond to the requests... and the process can resemble the Koh-Lanta pole trial. While many requests are launched in the great whirlwind of generic e-mail addresses, some silences are far more curious.

Usually, publishers send out a mailing listing their forthcoming releases, inviting anyone interested in a press service to come forward. This was the case for me a few months ago, at the start of the new literary season. A publishing house was about to release a work of fiction based on a judicial lie, and I was interested. Le Regard Libre was already preparing his The lie« thematic dossier». It couldn't have come at a better time! To request a copy of the forthcoming novel, all you had to do was click on a link in the e-mail. Which I promptly did. Without much success, however, since I got neither a reply nor a book in the mailbox.

One lie can sometimes hide another.

Write to the author: quentin.perissinotto@leregardlibre.com

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