(Just as a courtesy I want to inform you at the outset that this is not in any way an April Fool blog, though it is April and I have done my fair share of foolish things.) When I published Gone Boy, my first book, in 1999 my publishers Kodansha and Random House did what […] More >>
Archives for March 2013
The Man Who “Really” Invented POD
The Joshua Ward House Bob Murphy grew up behind a cash register in a family owned drugstore. He exhibited an enlarged collecting gland at an early age, and wheedled his parents into driving him around to the many antique shops that existed in those days – in search of antique coins, guns and colonial artifacts, […] More >>
Objects of Desire
The good news is that I’ve made a few hefty sales in recent weeks. The bad news is that nobody is in any hurry to pay me. So I left home Friday morning for Ephemera Thirty Three – the Ephemera Society’s international conference and show held at the commodious and very pleasant Hyatt Regency Hotel […] More >>
Report from Murderer’s Row
The cold weather followed John Thomson, Lin Respess and me south from last week’s Rosslyn book fair. Blinding flurries in Virginia, night time temperatures in the 20s in Alabama, and worrisome showers in the panhandle. Transitioning, finally, to sunny skies in Bradenton, Florida, just in time for the Pirates –Tampa Bay spring training ballgame on […] More >>
Miserable Pirates
A chilly wind in Washington DC this week. I got frostbitten ears walking across the Key bridge from Georgetownto the Washington Antiquarian Book Fair in Rosslyn, VA.Pity those rowers in their sculls on the Potomacfar below. As usual promoter Beth Campbell and her staff got us moved in to the second floor of the Holiday […] More >>