BookThink's Author Profiles by Craig Stark #31, 22 November 2004

BookThink begins a new, monthly feature today - and, you're right, up all night thinking up a name for this one - Author Profile. The plan is this: each month we'll take a close look at one (or more) authors - conduct an interview, review a book, and do a brief market analysis of the author's books in the resale market. Some of these authors will be household names, others well known within their genre, others relatively obscure, but all, we think, will deliver something of interest to you as bookseller, collector or reader.

Laura Esper kicks this feature off with a visit with Irish author Jack Scoltock. If you're a US reader, you might be doing a "Jack who?" here, but Scoltock is most definitely a household name in Derry, Ireland, where he has been busily publishing things of interest, especially to children and divers, for years. He recently recovered rights to most of his books and has cast his gaze to this side of the Atlantic for a new market. BookThink has agreed to make the introduction: America, meet Jack Scoltock.