Tea Why a tea bar? 21 Jun 201111 Oct 2011 (The post "Why a tea bar?" was moved to my new blog, "Tea With Gary," on October 11.)
Promotion Selling Your Print On Demand Book To Bookstores 15 Jun 20111 Feb 2026 I originally wrote this article for Writer’s Weekly in 2003. It can be seen in its original form on their website. A lot has changed in the last 20 years, but most of…
Promotion Book signings and long-term relationships 13 Jun 20111 Feb 2026 As you can guess from recent blog posts, I've been thinking a lot about book signings lately. Maybe it's because I'm putting together events for the bookstore right now, or…
Promotion 10 book signing tips for booksellers 11 Jun 20111 Feb 2026 Since I'm an author who also owns a bookstore, I've been on both sides of the book signing game. Yesterday I talked about what an author can do to make…
Promotion 14 book signing tips for authors 10 Jun 20111 Feb 2026 Since I'm an author who also owns a bookstore, I've been on both sides of the book signing game. Today, I'd like to talk about what an author can do…
Writing Book Review: “Geek Wisdom,” edited by Stephen Segal 8 Jun 20114 May 2020 Over the years, I've read my share of books that contain compilations of quotes. Most, frankly, failed to impress me (excepting, of course, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, which was an absolute…
Writing My take on Greg Mortenson and CAI 7 Jun 20114 May 2020 I am unaffiliated with Greg Mortenson and the Central Asia Institute, and I'm not privy to any financial information beyond what is released on their website. My wife and I…
Writing Book Review: “Bitterroot,” by James Lee Burke 2 Jun 20114 May 2020 Some years back, I attended a Montana book conference that featured a panel discussion on writing "tough guy" characters. On the panel were writers I was very familiar with, like…
Writing Pints for Prostates 1 Jun 201117 Nov 2017 In 2009, my wife and I had the pleasure of attending the first annual Denver Rare Beer Tasting, put on by an organization called Pints for Prostates. It was a…
