What to make of Goodloe Byron, Brown Paper Publishing, and the Zero Dollar Tour? About a couple hundred free copies of Byron’s latest novel, Revisions of Goodloe Brown: Portrait of an Ordinary Madness, were spotted around the Baltimore Book Festival last weekend. I picked up one myself—it was free, after all, as was Bryon’s earlier [...]

Here is a nice little article from Slate.com, explaining a bit about the effect of clicking ads on a website. He makes the point that clicking ads are a bit like tipping – if you like what you see on a site, give an ad a click. It puts a penny in the [...]

Report from the Mountains, a weekly radio program of poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio: in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the Redtail and Raven …
This week’s episode features the poem “Southeast of Red Shirt” and a classic from Monk’s Misterioso.
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Michael and I have been to some book and literary fairs all over the world, but the Baltimore Book Festival is one of the best. For one thing, it’s held every year in a picturesque area of the city called Mount Vernon, which resembles nothing so much as a European cathedral town; even though it’s [...]

I just wanted to drop a quick post to say we made it through the Baltimore Book Festival, and it was a pretty amazing experience this year. We sold a lot of books, signed up a bunch of new authors, awarded the first ever ABIE award and spread the Indie Publishing Gospel to many [...]

One of my favorite things about hosting the AuthorsBookshop booth at the Baltimore Book Festival every year is giving indie authors an opportunity to meet their readers and sign books.

We have a great schedule this year – Saturday is particularly packed. Great books, great authors… come on down and meet them.

Friday, Sept [...]

Show#: 2Aired: 9/23/09 Guest: Angel SoleraFeatured book: To Love Mercy, Frank S. Joseph
Here is Show #2. I think I am starting to get the hang of this a little bit.
I really enjoyed the interview with Angelo. We covered a lot of territory, and got some really great insight into his unbelievable past, and [...]

Ah, chewy quasi-literary journalism to sink your teeth into! In “Dead End“, a piece in this week’s CityPaper, writer John Barry (creator of the Baltimore-based litblog 510 Readings) gets on that litbloggers’ well-worn hobbyhorse: the bad influence that James Joyce has had on every single American writing student in our time. His example is James’s [...]

I just noticed, with this posting we have officially surpassed the total number of posts I made in all of 2008!

Thanks to Cantara, Andy and Marc! You guys are the best.

Tonight we talk with Angelo Solera, author of The Journey, el Camino and owner of Solera Publishing.

Angelo Solera spent most of his childhood in an orphanage in Salamanca Spain. He immigrated to the United States when he was 17, and did whatever work he could find, just to survive… incliding selling drugs. [...]