Author of Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen Interview starts at 15:50 and ends at 41:48 “It’s not that I sought out to be published by Amazon. It was that Amazon happened to be the people who believed in me and my book, and they’ve been so wonderful to work with. I do feel also that Little A is a tiny imprint within a huge company, so I kind of get the best of both worlds--that personal TLC and the brawn of the marketing and other kinds of reach of Amazon.” News Jeff Bezos’s 2018 Letter to Shareowners “Jeff Bezos reveals Amazon has 100 million Prime members in letter to shareholders” by Eugene Kim at CNBC - April 18, 2018 David Axelrod interviews Jay Carney, Amazon’s senior vice president for public affairs, on The Axe Files podcast - March 7, 2018 Tech Tip “How to build your own Alexa skills with the new Alexa Blueprints” by Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge - April 19, 2018 Amazon Alexa Skills Blueprints Interview with Hannah Howard Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison Bennington College MFA in Writing program Literary agent Andrea Somberg Morgan Parker Laura Van der Veer Too Good to Be True by Ben Anastas The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order by Joan Wickersham Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett Fairway Market Dean & DeLuca FreshDirect Content AmazonCrossing’s celebration of World Book Day - nine books are available free through April 24, 2018 Next Week’s Guest Rev. Brett McNeill, pastor of Reformation Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Olympia, WA, with a first-person tour of the Amazon Go store in Seattle Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!