July, 2006
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Hump Day Dessert
Yes, We Have No Books With all the Independent bookstores biting the dust, BookBeat in Marin County California has come up with a unique solution: Get rid of the books! Seems a little extreme but these are trying times for the Indies; time to try anything, that is. BookBeat hasRead More …
Jack Reacher Never Fails
Nor do Bosch or Cole or John Rain. Suspense/Thriller is the primary genre I read, with the occasional foray into most everything else. Well, I haven’t tried chick-lit yet though I did a run through a gay romance novel by my friend Marlys Pearson awhile back. It didn’t make meRead More …
Sunday Brunch – 07/23/2006
Blurb Your Book If you have a book in mind which you know has little in the way of commercial appeal but you want to put it together anyway, than you should check out Blurb. This is a low cost alternative to the likes of iUniverse, lulu and BookSurge. GotRead More …
Predators of the Unwary Writer
A writer’s life is hard enough. First you have to conceive the story, then write it. By the time you’ve finished it, you’ve read the damn thing so many times you need a barf bag by your side to get through the final edit and polish. Then comes the agentRead More …
Mike Hammer – DOA
Mickey Spillane is dead. I’m not sure why this makes me sad. He was 88. That’s a goodly number of years to inhabit the planet. He published a lot of books in his time here, most of which I ate up on my erratic way through childhood. I doubt I’veRead More …
Books In Texas?
Thanks to the folks over at Bookslut for turning me on to this. The Banned Books Cafe has officially opened in San Antonio. San Antonio? Wait a minute. This can’t be the San Antonio I’m thinking of. That San Antonio is in Texas! I didn’t know Texas even had books.Read More …
Sunday Brunch – 07/16/2006
A bit of PODishness about today’s Brunch. Dig in. Hitch Yourself to a Book The Grumpy Old Bookman, whose blog I read faithfully five days a week and have yet to see the grumpy side of him, had an item last week about a website called Bookhitch. In a timeRead More …
Quiet To Be In Print
I’ve just recently learned that the folks over at Staticmovement thought well enough of my short story Quiet that they have included it in their first ever print anthology. I’m honored. I’ve never had a short story printed before so I’m quite looking forward to this. Steel Moon, a micro-publisher,Read More …
Sunday Brunch – 07/11/2006
Spent more days than I planned finishing my research for the next book and didn’t have time for brunch on Sunday. So here it is, late and perhaps a bit stale but edible nevertheless. What Blurbs Really Mean I long ago gave up reading blurbs. They’re mostly bullshit and doRead More …
Sunday Brunch – 07/02/2006
Elephant Watch Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen is #14 on the New York Times Best Seller List. Wanna know something? There are 13 books ahead of hers that ain’t near as good. Not even close. No way. Buy A Friend A Book’s First Anniversary