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 [...]

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If it was tasteless for the World Wildlife Federation to create this commercial in the first place, I suppose it’s tasteless for me as well to display it here on this eighth anniversary of 9/11. But you have to see it to believe it.
How time flies. And what a terrible thing to remember. I temped [...]

Here’s that article I talked about in last night’s interview (and if you can’t see it, go here:

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Yawn.
I got a boilerplate email today:
I’ve found a new site called BookRabbit.com, here’s the scoop:It’s a social network for book lovers. You can see what other people are reading, discuss old favourites and discover new books and authors, as well as create your own personal bookshelves and catalogues online. The aim is simple – to [...]

I just discovered why my PDF-exclusive literary quarterly, Cantaraville, has been getting better and better submissions this past year—it seems that one of the most referred-to sites for writing markets, Duotrope, has gotten some good feedback about us and put us not only on their list of 25 Swiftest to Reply Fiction Markets, but also [...]