Books Sharing compelling displays: An ABA bookseller collaboration 12 Feb 20145 May 2023 The American Booksellers Association Winter Institute last month in Seattle was all about sharing and education. Sometimes sharing ideas is enough to create new ideas along the way, and that's…
Articles… Captioning at Disneyland 20 Jan 20145 May 2023 This article was originally published in September 1998 as a “Gary Robson on Captioning” column for a magazine called Newswaves for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People, which is no longer in…
Books Symbiosis, Indies First, and Part-Time Indians 9 Dec 20131 Feb 2023 I have often said that indie bookstores have a symbiotic relationship with 2nd and 3rd tier authors. I suppose that symbiosis got a little out of hand when I bought…
Writing Caution: Haiku May Lead to Drinking Beer With Friends 28 Nov 20135 May 2023 Oh, my goodness gracious! Yesterday, I posted 26 of my beer haiku on this blog. As usual, I posted a link on Facebook and Twitter. The Facebook link said: Haiku:…
Writing Haiku: Celebrating Beer in Verse 27 Nov 20135 May 2023 I confess. I'm cheating. I originally wrote this as a column for the Local Rag in November of 2009. The Local Rag is shifting over to a new website, and…
Captioning One for the bucket list: Giving a TED talk 22 Nov 20135 May 2023 My bucket list is an eclectic — and rather lengthy — collection of things. I've crossed some cool stuff off of that list: competing in a rodeo, being profiled in…
Books How to ban a book in your local school 17 Nov 20135 May 2023 Graphic blogs are all the rage these days, but I've never tried doing one. I'm not really much of an artist. I was, however, a computer science major back in…
Promotion It would seem obvious… 23 Oct 201327 Feb 2025 Though I've posted many book signing tips here, there are a few things that seem so blatantly, searingly obvious that I haven't bothered to write about them. I suppose I…
Books… Can’t writers all just get along? 12 Oct 20131 Feb 2026 Before addressing the main issue of this post, I'd like to provide a bit of background. When somebody hits that magic "follow" button on my blog, I get an email…