Russell Chatham is back in northern California, fishing, thinking, writing, getting back to his roots. I don’t have any practical info, yet, but he is reviving Clark City Press, one step at a time . Back in the day, he was the one publisher willing to take Querencia– the- book. Without him, this blog would …
Tag: Book biz
McGuane at the Strand
As promised. These have generated a lot of email (personal, off blog, though I would encourage them here) enough that I might start looking for such interviews. I will put some thoughts in reaction below (above?), probably tomorrow… OK, in-stream commentary to friends edited only for a minimum of sense and coherence: “Living in the …
Useful phrase
From the great Victorian explorer and translator Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: “Lying like a publisher.”
Covers
Covers for four of my reprints, all good so far… the last, the new Eagle Dreams with Cat Urbigkit’s cover of my late friend Aralbai, and intro, the observations of a Wyoming cowgirl and stockwoman (and writer) fifteen years or so after me, has been out only a couple of weeks. Now if I could …
Helen Rockstar!
Randy Davis wrote me today to tell me about a signing for Tom McGuane’s new book– I will delay getting it until I can get an inscribed one in Denver. He was at the Strand with Tom Brokaw. “My oldest son went to see/hear the McGuane – Brokaw show at Strand Books in Manhattan. Late …
Congratulations Paula! (and reluctant self- promotion)
Friend of the blog Paula Young Lee, writer and hunter, traveler, sometime resident of Paris France, Paris Maine, and Wellesley Mass, has won the Gold Medal for travel book from the Society of American Travel Writers for her book Deer Hunting in Paris. I bet it could as easily win one for hunting book, or …
Q Cover Redux
In the home stretch on the new edition of Q. For the cover, I still favor some variety of this photo (forgive quality of my amateur efforts; I am sure a designer could do wonders with my template). The publisher favors the old cover. Any last thoughts? Here are the mockups I attempted. The old …
Passenger Pigeons Again…
Another little sample from my evolving proposal: P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } After the Ice … I will draw on contemporary scholarship from Pielou to Paul Martin to paint a picture of the late glacial world – one with little place for the passenger pigeon as a major ecological actor. One keystone will be Australian …
Book Signing!
Dutch Salmon and I will be signing at an afternoon- long event in Deming, on Saturday 15 December, at the bookstore of “dog- in- laws” Dan and Margaret. Be there!
Gun Books for Boys, Parents, and Girls…
Silvio Calabi and his team released the amazing Gun Book for Boys a couple of weeks ago. I opened it with interest; Silvio has been a fine editor and writer (last year’s Hemingway’s Guns, reviewed here, is a favorite) and good correspondent for years, and he was the somewhat unlikely advisor who recommended I take …