Citibank Settlement

Okay, now I can talk about it.  Actually, after the surprisingly extensive news coverage to date (I was a little surprised to see articles in Irish and Turkish news outlets), there's not much to add.  Here are links to a few of the articles from the past week:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202424087801

http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=2263901;s=rollingnews.htm

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=151587&bolum=105

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/27/BU3A12ILN1.DTL&hw=egelko&sn=009&sc=384

Whoa, has it really been five months since I posted? Time flies when you're having fun.* A lot of that time has been spent working on a case that I'm pretty pumped about and that recently settled. It's still under seal, so I can't talk about it yet. It should be unsealed in the next week or so, though, and I'll comment on it then. For now, suffice it to say that it's cases like this that remind me why I decided to leave big firm life and go to work for the Department of Justice.

I've also been busy promoting my new novel, Blood Brothers, which just released. Here are a couple of recent interviews:

http://lenanelsondooley.blogspot.com/2008/08/author-rick-acker-blood-brothers-free.html

http://margaretdaley.blogspot.com/2008/08/rick-ackers-interview.html


I've been thrilled with the response that Blood Brothers has gotten from reviewers. Writing a sequel is always tough because it's hard to both keep the flavor of the first book and make the new one different and fresh. So I was a little nervous while writing BB, but so far the reviews have been better than I hoped. Here are a few:

http://relzreviewz.blogspot.com/2008/08/blood-brothers-by-rick-acker-giveaway.html

http://projectinga.blogspot.com/2008/07/grpr-blood-brothers-by-rick-acker.html

http://www.thesuspensezone.com/ReviewBloodBrothers.html

http://christianreviewofbooks.com/blood_brothers_by_rick_acker.htm

http://www.romantictimes.com/books_review.php?book=35686

http://www.inthelibraryreviews.net/AckerRick.html




*In this context, "fun" means "weekly deadlines and a state budget crisis."