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June 25, 2008

Literary Classics in Three Lines or less at McSweeney's :-)

Paradise Lost

ADAM: Paradise has arbitrary dietary restrictions?

DEVIL: They're really more like guidelines.

GOD: Incorrect.

Enthusiastically linked.

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June 24, 2008

Fresh Books June Harvest!

Mood -- smoky. Today we have over 840 wildfires burning in California.

The good news is that we have new books on the shelves.

Congratulations to Harold Davis on the publication of his amazing 100 Views of the Golden Gate (Wilderness Press).

Congratulations to Steve Horton and Jeong Mo Jang on the publication of Professional Manga: Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX (Focal Press).

Congratulations to Greg Velm on the publication of AP U.S. History for Dummies (Wiley).

Congratulations to Taz Tally on the publication of his labor of love 50 Hikes in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula (The Countryman Press).

And congratulations to Rich Wagner on the publication of his Building Facebook Applications for Dummies (Wiley). Rich is also about to embark on a one month cross country bicycle book tour to promote The Expeditionary Man (which repped by his CBA agency Alive Communications). You can follow his adventure at his website, WhyTheBike.

Best wishes to everyone. Thanks for working with me.

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June 16, 2008

Michelle Waitzman blurbed in Cosmo!

This is a first for my career probably :-) I don't usually see my books in Cosmo.

Michelle Waitzman, author of Sex in a Tent: A Wild Couple's Guide to Being Naughty in Nature was quoted in Cosmo last week. Michelle was interviewed for a sidebar (to do with, ah hem, creative ways to use a hammock) and Wilderness Press reports that it seemed to spur some book sales.

Congrats, Michelle!

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June 13, 2008

Help a Reporter: Because Everyone's an Expert at Something

Here's a shout out to Peter Shankman and his very cool site, Helpareporter, which matches reporters with experts. The queries come from all sorts of outlets, including bloggers, podcasters, trade magazines, book authors and big dailies.

I read his queries every day and pass leads to my clients when I see something that looks like a good fit, but HARO is also definitely worth checking out if you're a writer and you're looking for experts to interview yourself.

Peter has a fun blog and cool book, Can We Do That? Outrageous PR Stunts That Work and Why Your Company Needs Them. Check them out.

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June 11, 2008

I can't believe I read the whole thing!

Well this is a poor excuse for breaking radio silence, but I got a huge laugh out of this Galleycat post quoting Jeff Bezos on "hand fatigue."

Yeah, that's the difficulty with reading. Snarf. I just finished Walter Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe (great book btw), and boy my hands are tired - baddaboom.

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