Director, Books PR & Editorial at Amazon.com Interview starts at 11:47 and ends at 48:10 “We really want to choose books that we feel like customers will love or--in a non-pushy way--should love.” Links “Alexa’s voice can now express disappointment and excitement” by Jay Peters at The Verge - November 26, 2019 Alexa Skills Kit Blog post on new Emotions and Speaking styles - November 26, 2019 Sarah Gelman’s posts at The Amazon Book Review Amazon’s Best Books of 2019 (amazon.com/bestbooks2019) South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations by Sean Brock The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac They Called Us Enemy by George Takei Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson Will the Cat Eat My Eyeballs: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins “What I’m reading on my summer vacation” by Sarah Gelman at The Amazon Book Review - July 3, 2019 TV Shows mentioned: This is Us, A Million Little Things, Younger,   Next Week’s Guest Robin Cook, author of Genesis: A Novel, available for pre-order from G. P. Putnam’s Sons, with release on December 3, 2019  Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day’s entry by saying, “Alexa, what’s new?” Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.