My next nonfiction children’s book will be released this fall, so my publishing house is currently preparing the marketing plan. The book is about pronghorn antelope, and the photographer is my talented friend Mark Gocke. This is my first nature title for kids (my other books are about agriculture). If you’re a blogger or writer …
Tag: Books
Inluential Books (and Writers)
Rod Dreher has a post on “Ten Most Influential Books. I responded after thinking hard and coming up with entries that surprised me a bit, in more or less chronological order: Kipling’s Jungle Books– first read to me by my mother– gave me a lifelong love of the underrated author, and England. Adventures of Sherlock …
Bueno perro
I just received my first copies of the about-to-be-released bilingual version of my Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs: How They Guard Sheep book. This was my first children’s book, and is still my favorite, because it’s some of my favorite subject matter. The Spanish translation was done by Aida E. Marcuse, and the new edition is …
Cat’s Yellowstone Wolves, and others
Our own Cat Urbigkit has just published a book on the Yellowstone wolves and their reintroduction (so to speak as you will see.) She brings a unique perspective as she is both a sheepherder and a naturalist- observer, one who can appreciate big carnivores but doesn’t want them killing her sheep or her livelihood. Her …
News and…
Been busy but not blogging. Some good news: the eagle book that occupied me (and drove me crazy) last year looks to have a new publisher. And another publisher in the same state is interested in doing a new edition of rage for falcons. I’ll keep you posted. And I have a new Gyr- Saker …
Thanks to…
Terrie Miller, for Keller’s Bouchon cookbook, and Mike for Walter Jon Williams’ new novel. Reviews and food photos forthcoming… And Terrie, we’d be happy to take you hawking.
Things to come..
(To keep my nose to the grindstone…) Book reviews. EXCELLENT new book on why the Mega- Predators are ecologically vital. Science, new and rediscovered (hint: Leopold’s Kaibab redux.) “Whale killers.” Science as well as emotion, written not typed, and re- wilding too! More reviews: Evolution vs ID, Matthiessen’s Florida (still unfinished), Chinese wolf novel ditto. …
Bookride
Don’t know how I hadn’t found it before (or for that matter exactly how I did) but Bookride may be the best bibliophile site I have ever seen. It is written by a long- time bookseller with a shop in Charing Cross Road, for people like me– people who in the words of Albuquerque bookman …
Book Reviews
A Childhood by Harry Crews (also re-read: Florida Frenzy.) Harry Crews is probably in his seventies, a professor of writing in Florida, and grew up among the rural poor of north Florida and southern Georgia.A Childhood is his memoir of that. Somebody in the NYTBR said that it is “..about a part of America that …
Reading Wish List
First addition re New Ideas: my Amazon Wish List, some selections with comments, is now available below the photo– scroll down on some servers. I promise to review any selection readers provide right here!