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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
From Librarian Taryn Edwards at the Mechanics’ Institute Library: Hello, thanks so much for attending Carol Verburg’s presentation on Wednesday. Here is the link to the video (it should be completely ready for viewing by 10am) https://youtu.be/Twbh2zLKX-s Also I pulled out the useful links from the chat. (And I’ve added …
Pathways to Publication, 2021 — Traditional? Indie? What About Amazon? Wednesday, April 21, 2021 – 6:00pm to 7:00pm PDT Presented by the Mechanics’ Institute in partnership with the San Francisco Writers Conference This event will take place via Zoom. Please register via Eventbrite and the Zoom credentials will be sent …
