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Oct.27.2009
It had to happen. The reading in Half Moon Bay this last Saturday had the smallest audience yet: three (two SOs and a close friend) plus the bookstore staff. I felt terrible for having asked my readers to slog through October traffic over the hill for so little benefit. They were wonderful, though...
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Aug.12.2009
You may have noticed, when browsing the shelves at your local bookstore, those little cards that are sometimes attached to the edge of the shelf, with extra info about one of the books. Most often these take the form of “staff favorites” or “recommended books” and the like. They are called shelf...
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Jul.31.2009
I love the concept of everyone blogging on the same topic at the same time -- and I'm very much looking forward to learning what I can from other people's mishaps in the publications of their first books. Is that wrong?
The topic of the day is pretty intimidating for me. My first book on a big...
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Jul.20.2009
This is a fascinating article on book publishing in the era of digitization — it deconstructs the industry, showing how the pie is divided (as writers know, it’s not so great for writers), and how this will likely change with increasing digitization; the three big waves currently hitting the...
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Jul.06.2009
This Boston Globe article on a Vermont independent bookstore offers a glimpse of what our future bookstores might look like — and it actually paints a pretty nice picture.
Imagine your local indie bookstore with “all the classic trappings: exposed beams, wood tables stacked with hardcover...
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Jun.30.2009
I went to a reading last night by Jacqueline Carey, promoting her new book Naamah’s Kiss, at the University of Washington bookstore. She read a bit from the next book in line after Naamah’s Kiss, much to the delight of a very devoted audience. What I liked most was that, during the Q & A...
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Jun.25.2009
I buy books... always have. I buy them because I love them, but also because they're necessary for my research. Basically, I can't do my job without buying them. So, it's no great surprise that my buying hasn't reduced; in some respects it's actually increased. Despite the current state of the...
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Jun.23.2009
Of the few blogs I regularly read, one of the best is from an agent, Pub Rants, in Colorado. She always has lots of good info about the business from the perspective of the agent. In a recent posting, she linked to the blog of a bookseller (Kash's Book Corner). What I found particularly interesting...
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Jun.05.2009
Take a good look at the photo below. This is the view an author has when standing in front of an audience at his (or her) reading. I took this Wednesday night at a reading at A Different Light bookstore for my novel What We Remember.
Notice that there are 12 seats. Then notice that only six of...
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May.29.2009
Lewis Buzbee suggests in his book, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, that rather than being conscripted into military service, young people should be required to work in retail. He believes it would make us a kinder, gentler country, with loads more patience, if we all had to serve time behind a counter...
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