We hope you who are in the good old US of A with me are having a great time celebrating the usurpation of a continent from the folks who were already living here… and I know I sure am! Turkey, family and talk about great books abound around the our household tonight.
As a little [...]
I love this interview with the great Sander Hicks… he has some good thoughts on business, marketing books and even gets a great plug in for our own Andy Laties’ book The Rebel Bookseller:
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On Sunday afternoon I received the latest edition of “Cantaranews,” an occasional newsletter report on the literary quarterly Cantaraville. In it, Cantara Christopher (the editor and owner of Cantarabooks and Cantaraville) published a statement about AuthorsBookshop.com entitled, “Caveat on AuthorsBookshop.com,” which contained false claims and mis-characterizations of my business.
It is my understanding that she [...]
That seems to be the question I’m being forced to ask myself.Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer yet another techie, time-eating attempt at book promotionOr to take arms ‘gainst a sea of silliness and by going offline, end it.
In the last few days (my apologies if you were hoping for more mangled Shakespeare), [...]
… poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio,in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone,in the range of the red-tail and raven …
Report from the Mountains #39 is now online featuring the poem “Messenger (Bubo Virginianus)” from The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds, and music by Sahib [...]
This was a really fun interview, and I think probably to date the most useful to indie publishers. Kelly Powers owns Obie Joe Media, a marketing firm for publishers and she had a loooot to say about marketing strategies, as well as the state of the publishing industry. If you are interested at [...]
Well, the book is out to advanced press. And some left-leaning bloggers and websites are combing through Palin’s claims. If you aren’t a fan of Palin, you probably aren’t surprised to hear that they are finding some statements in the books that… stretch the truth a bit. Salon has a good shakedown [...]
Here’s another installment from my forthcoming book. (I won’t post every chapter, only occassional ones.)
VoxPop, Sander and Me — Chapter 3
“Fifty thousand in cash! Fifty thousand in cash to launch your new indie bookstore! Get your free fifty thousand!” I was passing out translucent envelopes containing banknotes, stickers and silver coins to attendees strolling the [...]
A Model Yearby Gina MyersCoconut Books, 2009
[reviewed by Marc Beaudin]
Something profound, exciting, and almost frightening takes place when reading Myers’ A Model Year. The individual poems begin to act upon each other in that there is a certain building up of meaning, sentiment, and impact the more you read. It’s not that the poems are [...]
Sorry this one is late getting up. I had a problem with the mp3 file, and was unable to get it straightened out till tonight, when I could get Eric Willison, the shows executive producer and sound engineer, to fix it for me. We got it straightened out though, and are good to [...]
