Our friends down at ReaderViews are offering a pretty great deal on video trailers for books. We’ve covered video trailers — and how important they can be — before here at the IndieBookMan and here is a great affordable opportunity to get in on the action. A good trailer can cost many hundreds [...]
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 [...]
The Sagging: Spirits & Skin. Poetry by Jason FiskPropaganda Press, 2009
The Sagging: Spirits & Skin sings eloquent tales of loss and the big truths that are learned within small pieces of emptiness. Through these poems, Fisk lurks like a quiet voyeur into the dirt-smeared windows of a embattled collection of naked and lonely souls. There [...]
Book Review:
some misplaced joan of arc by leah angstmanPropaganda Press, 2009
reviewed by Marc Beaudin
From the stack of books that I pulled from a large envelope, this one struck me instantly: the cover art, a painting by the author titled “summer dream,” is easily worth the price of the book. And then I happily discover, on [...]
So, I got my fourth and final “Abe’s Penny” the other day (Volume 1.7). Four postcards in all. I love them. If you didn’t catch it, I first posted about Abe’s Penny here.
According to editor Anna Knoebel:
We call Abe’s Penny a micro-magazine. Each issue is a series of four postcards with a [...]
Antisocial by David BlainePublished by OW Press, 2009. www.OutsiderWriters.orgBook Review by Marc Beaudin
The author’s bio at the end of this book notes that this is not the magician of the same name. Yet, David Blaine, the poet, plays with words the way I imagine the other David Blaine plays with cards or silk scarves. [...]
There are a lot of ways to launch a book, and tonight Angelo Solera did it right with the launch party for his brand new book, The Journey: El Camino.
Angelo enlisted the help of Baltimore’s Creative Alliance to host the event, and partnered with U.S. Hispanic Youth Entrepreneur Education (USHYEE) and made a community event [...]
I just got word about the launch of Superior Book Reviews, a Michigan-based web service that will offer reviews, author interviews, editing services, writing tips and more.
The site is being launched by Michigan Indie Novelist (and friend to IndieBookMan) Tyler R. Tichelaar.
Tyler really knows his stuff when it come to writing – particularly regional fiction. [...]
