Books Amazon buying Goodreads? Can’t we have anything nice? 29 Mar 20131 Feb 2023 The word is out. The biggest monopoly in the history of the book business is buying the biggest independent book review website. Most of what I'm reading about Amazon's pending…
Books… Myths & Legends of Tea 25 Mar 201331 Jan 2026 This is an early working concept for the book cover. The photo in the post header is what I ended up using for the final cover. Most writers don't like…
Books A few myths about banned books 11 Feb 20135 May 2023 This image was borrowed from Melville House, where it illustrates an article referenced later in this blog post. I just listened to an episode of the "Stuff You Should Know"…
Articles… The Wrong Way to Promote Your Book 26 Jan 201330 Jan 2023 I originally wrote this article for Writer's Weekly back in 2003. It can be seen in its original form on their website. I've placed it here on my blog because…
Education… Oh, boy! My book is a textbook! That’s good news, right? 14 Jan 20131 Feb 2026 When I wrote about this in 2011, I talked about rights reversion and what that means in an age of ebooks. Today, I'm having more of an issue with the…
Writing A Square credit card update 27 Nov 201219 Aug 2013 Last April, I wrote about credit cards from an author/bookseller perspective. Since then, we've switched our credit card processing from a major bank to Square running on iPads, and invalidated…
Writing And the next Who Pooped book is… 14 Sep 201219 Aug 2013 We have a contract for my 18th book in the Who Pooped in the Park? series! This one will be titled Who Pooped in the Cascades?, and will cover the…
Promotion Customizing presentations at book signings 27 Jul 20121 Feb 2026 Seven years ago, when my first Who Pooped in the Park? book was hot off the presses, I cut one up, scanned it, and turned it into a PowerPoint presentation.…
Promotion Book signing notes from a bookseller to authors 26 Jun 20121 Feb 2026 Author Mark Liebenow talks about his book, Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite at my store a few weeks ago. I've written a fair amount about book signings here…
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