I was just surfing through the Craigslist writer ads and found a call for completed or very nearly done manuscripts on the outdoors or sports. I don’t know how long this link will last, but here it is: Wanted Book Authors and Ready To Publish Books I copied their list from the Craigslist post…
» Read more...Month: October 2004
I’m Home
But where is home? The better way to ask is, Where do you live? To which the reply I’m comfortable giving is, My storage unit is in San Francisco. It’s actually in Redwood City, but that response would require too much additional explanation. So, Susan (I’m staying with her) is forcing me to take a […]
» Read more...MOBYlives is back
Dennis Loy Johnson is back to blogging. Mobylives: news & commentary on books & writers We were talking about him just the other day in relation to his publishing house Melville House Books. They did Our Nun which I was joking around about a few days ago. I saw Dennis on a panel of bloggers […]
» Read more...Litquake Me Right Now!
I hope you heard about this somewhere else because it already started! The hip, cool, see and be seen, opportunity to meet that elusive novelist you’ve always had a crush on, literary extravaganza of San Francisco is here! Litquake! My friends Tara Weaver and Kevin Smokler are two of the volunteers that work on this […]
» Read more...HotelChatter is Hiring Bloggers
If you love blogging and have a keen interest in hotels, HotelChatter.com is hiring. I was writing for them this past winter and spring and had fun doing it. It’s fun writing. Gossip. Not stiff formula stuff. Just be sure you’re doing this for the bylines and increased exposure to your writing. They are paying, […]
» Read more...Susan Orlean: My Kind of Place
I can't remember where I first read that “The” Susan Orlean had come out with a new collection of her travel stories that were originally in The New Yorker, Outside Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler. I bought it as soon as I could. I was at Harry Schwartz in Milwaukee and Dan went […]
» Read more...Dinner with Booksellers
This year I was the guest author for our sales rep to show around at the Great Lakes Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show. John Mesjak, who covers the Midwest for our distributor Publishers Group West, really knows his stuff. Believe me, it is quite reassuring for a publisher to witness their sales rep greeting (and […]
» Read more...Author Signing at the GLBA 2004
Ha ha! It looks like I am posting before Jay Gesin. We did not end up doing any head to head blogging in the lobby this morning. I slept in, and oh how I needed it. There is a small chance I might actually return to SF semi refreshed. Or maybe I should skip San […]
» Read more...Which Came First, the Starlet or the Sales Rep?
It is almost 1am over here in Dearborn, Michigan. I'm at the Hyatt where the Great Lakes Booksellers Association convention is being held. Yes, I’m tired. I got 4.5 hours of sleep last night before I took two flights that started at 6:15a.m., lugged 150 pounds of luggage to Michigan from Wisconsin, and drove around […]
» Read more...Debate This! Jen at the Wisconsin Book Festival
You gotta love it when low expectations get blown out of the water. Last night was my final event for the Midwest portion of the book tour. And except for a stellar event at Harry Schwartz in Milwaukee (that I still need to write up), the people in the Land of Nice were a bit […]
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