Frances Dinkelspiel did a nice write-up for Berkeley Inside about the 8th Annual Author’s Dinner at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday. The food and wine were over-the-top wonderful (especially the homemade banana ice cream), and I had a great time catching up with Rabih Alameddine (The Hakawati), Daniel Mason (The Piano Tuner), Alan Black [...]
The Authors Guild has launched a website, WhoMovedMyBuyButton.com, “which allows authors to keep track of whether Amazon has removed buy buttons from any of their books.”
Although we’ve launched WhoMovedMyBuyButton.com in response to Amazon’s wholesale removal of buy buttons from Macmillan titles, we believe Amazon should be monitored for years to come. Amazon’s developed [...]
I have long used the Amazon widget on this page because it offers the cleanest graphics and is the easiest way to create a linked, text-enriched slideshow of one’s books–capabilities which, unfortunately, are not yet available to authors through indiebound. For the moment, however, the Amazon widget has been removed from this page as [...]
Three leaders of the women’s rights movement in Haiti–Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan–died in last week’s earthquake. Read the story here. Merlet, who fled Haiti in the 70s and returned in teh 80s, described the challenges facing women in her homeland in an essay for the anthology Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s [...]
I still love the brick-and-mortar stores, especially in the Bay Area, where we’re blessed with amazing independents. Personal preference aside, however, I do believe that, in the next couple of years, e-books will take over a huge share of the market.
One thing paperbacks currently have going for them in the book vs. Kindle debate [...]
I just saw the cover for the German translation of No One You Know, which will be published by Diana (Random House Germany) in June. I think it coincides nicely with the German edition of The Year of Fog. I love it when covers of books by the same author have a certain continuity, as [...]
..that Rainn Wilson, the guy who plays Dwight Shrute on The Office, has a smart, funny blog
…that a parking garage could look so mod, courtesy of photographer Jenna Brown (No Room for Necklaces) in Charleston
…that I should have saved this wine for a night when I wasn’t home alone with my kid, reading dinosaur pop-up [...]
I’ll be at one of my all-time favorite bookstores tonight, the scrumptious Green Apple on Clement in San Francisco, doing an event with Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries–a memoir that’s every bit as addictive as its subject matter–and Paul Madonna, known and loved throughout the Bay Area for his All Over Coffee artistry, [...]
My sister made this hilarious animated video after observing Oscar’s peculiar way with hot dogs.
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