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Rupert Thomson's five novels have earned him the status of a cult figure, at least in the British press, but the London-based author, 44, now seems to be bidding for a somewhat more remunerative title, as in "best seller." Thomson's sixth novel, The Book of Revelation (Knopf; 260 pages; $23), ought to widen considerably the circle of his readership on both sides of the Atlantic. His new book, like its predecessors, conveys bizarre, surrealistic events with understated, laconic precision, but the principal subject this time out is that fail-safe crowd pleaser, kinky...
HarperCollins publisher JUDITH REGAN has cultivated unlikely authors before (neither Howard Stern nor Kathie Lee Gifford is likely to qualify for Modern Language Association membership), but the doyen of the best-seller list may have topped herself with The Eyebrow, a book due out this spring from her own imprint on eyebrow upkeep by...the woman who plucks Regan's eyebrows. "Robyn Cosio changed my life," Regan gushed to Publishers Weekly. "With a swift move of her hand, she reshaped my eyebrows, giving me the instant facelift I needed." Cosio is no pedestrian plucker; she often reshapes 50 brows...
...attention of author Dominick Dunne, an omnipresent analyst of the O.J. Simpson trial and a specialist in high-society true crime; his own daughter was murdered at a young age. Dunne wrote a thinly veiled novelization of the Moxley case, A Season in Purgatory, which became a best seller and a TV movie. Adding to the furor was a factual account, Greentown, by Greenwich resident Dumas, who related unsavory stories of a young Tommy trying to strangle a fellow prep-school student and Michael "whacking the heads off of squirrels"--with a golf club. The Kennedy Smith rumor resulted...
...operation. The result: misplaced orders, late deliveries and some unhappy customers. And much of the marketing millions spent after Nov. 1 probably drowned in the sea of other dotcom ads. "Many e-tailers spent way too much money way too late in the season," Weiner says. Toy seller KBkids.com did things right, launching its $43 million ad campaign at the time of the site's July debut. The payoff: traffic and sales soared...
...haven't completed the transaction. Some stay. Some bolt. A little hand holding can help reduce the chance of a cut-and-run considerably. First tip: Post a toll-free number, and staff the phones. Ken Seiff, CEO of Bluefly.com which sells discount designer apparel (big holiday seller: $79 pashmina scarves), attributes his company's favorable traffic-to-sales ratio to having enough live customer-service reps (70 during the busiest December weeks, up from just four in September) on hand to answer customer calls and reply to e-mail inquiries. "Everybody who's on the payroll took a turn...