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 [...]

I am an active user of Amazon.com’s author-promotion mechanisms. I have an author-blog on my book’s Amazon page, I submitted my book so it’s searchable on Amazon, I have submitted a review written by an independent reviewer for display on my book’s Amazon page. So far so good. However: the book I’m pitching is among [...]

Media distribution…..well, things have changed just a little…..this post is for Baltimore readers.
One afternoon in the Winter of 1983 I was riding in my Granddaddy Irv’s car in Miami. Grandma Lil was in the passenger seat, my mother and I were in the back. We were discussing my decision to go into business. [...]

On Labor Day weekend, the Smithsonian Channel will be broadcasting, in two parts, Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story, a narrative of the most sweeping, ambitious, and influential publishing venture in history: A self-portrait of America, written by the greatest authors in America, for Roosevelt’s depression-era WPA Federal Writers Project, in the form of [...]