Edward Gorey Fans in Minneapolis, Cape Cod, & San Francisco — Save the Date!
More details coming soon! Or click now for Big Hill Books (MN), The Provincetown Bookshop (MA), Cape Cod Theatre Company (MA), Titcomb’s Bookshop (MA), and Books Inc in the Marina (CA).
First Peek inside “The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey”
How do you design a book about a famous book designer? That was the challenge for Allison Weiner at Chronicle Books. The cover came first — had to, since the marketing, publicity, and sales forces would start work before we knew exactly what images and text fit into our 250 …
COMING in OCTOBER 2024 from CHRONICLE BOOKS: The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey
The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories For anyone who’s ever been curious about the brilliant, eccentric creator of such classics as Dracula on Broadway, the PBS Masterpiece Mystery animation, and strange little books like The Curious Sofa and The Gashlycrumb Tinies, this large, lavish volume is a treasure trove. Just …
Good news! “Silent Night Violent Night: a Cory Goodwin Mystery” wins BAIPA Cover Design Award
I’m thrilled to announce that on Saturday 12/3/2022, the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) gave its Best Cover Award in the Mystery/Thriller category to Silent Night Violent Night — a twisty whodunnit in which journalist/sleuth Cory Goodwin takes a walk on the wild side of publishing, and a posh …
New Mexico in April with Left Coast Crime
Welcome to the Spring convention season! At last authors and readers everywhere will meet in real live 3-D for the first time in 2 years. You can see me, and I hope to see you, at Left Coast Crime 2022 in Albuquerque, NM, April 7-10. I’m thrilled to be on …
Now Available Worldwide! Shafted, or The Toastrack Enigma: an Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery (#3)
MANY THANKS to the thousands of readers who sent SHAFTED or THE TOASTRACK ENIGMA to the top of Amazon’s best-seller lists on Nov. 6! 400 years after the “First Thanksgiving,” reclusive genius Edgar Rowdey teams up with Leo’s Back End soup-chef Lydia Vivaldi and Wampanoag dessert chef Mudge Miles to …
Just Published! “Scandal at the Savoy: The Monocle Murder” in Mystery Magazine
In October 2021, the popular and highly regarded Mystery Weekly is publicly admitting it’s a monthly by renaming itself Mystery Magazine. They’re celebrating this (re)launch with a thrill-packed double issue featuring “The Monocle Murder” — the brand-new first story in my Holmes and Watson “Scandal at the Savoy” series. I’m …
What Shall We Do About Audiobooks?
In the book-selling horse race, the long shot moving up fast on the outside is audiobooks. Before the pandemic, although audiobooks were only 10% of the market, they had the most growth. That accelerated in 2020, and it’s continuing in 2021. In a May 7 blog post on goodereader.com, Michael …
Don Quixote advises a Barcelona Printer on Book Publishing
Too prescient and funny not to share! Miguel de Cervantes published Part 1 of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha in 1605. By the time Part 2 came out ten years later, the author — and his subject — had evidently been through the literary mill, from fame …