From Shelf Awareness:
The follow-up book to former Vice President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth has been scheduled for a fall 2009 release. The Associated Press (via USA Today) reported that Rodale Books will publish Our Choice in November “on 100% recycled paper. The book, which proposes solutions to the global warming crisis documented in Inconvenient […]
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Gore Follows Up
From Shelf Awareness: Read Dating!
Last Thursday, the University Book Store, Seattle, Wash., held its first “Read Dating” event. Participants had eight minutes to chat about their favorite books and authors before moving on to the next person. Stesha Brandon, manager of public relations and events, reported that “a ton of people came, and I think even a few matches […]
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I keep futily checking the mailbox for a copy of When You Are Engulfed By Flames by David Sedaris. I never did get any publicity materials but I imagine Little, Brown was awash in requests for this one. I unpopularly expressed my disappointment with Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim on Amazon (it crossed to the dark side, […]
Tracy Told Me To Tell You…
A few years ago I wrote a book called A Parent’s Guide to the Best Children’s Literature. As it happens, the publisher was a schmendrick who ran off with everyone’s money. I won’t tell you his name, because that would be indiscreet (Ed Steussy). He also managed to retain the rights my work and, to add […]