We are “celebrating” national Banned Books Week this week—if indeed “celebrating” is the right word to use in conjunction with a week that honors books that have been banned in various venues.
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Boo-Hoo Or Yahoo?
My birthday is coming. Too many people dread birthdays. I don’t. I celebrate them. That “Yahoo” in the title of this post isn’t a reference to a well-known digital company; it’s an exclamation of delight! I may not be thrilled to be older, the way I was when I was a kid and each advanced...
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Thinking Outside The Box
Bookstores are the traditional venue for authors to promote their works. You approach your local Barnes & Noble, or indie bookstore, and ask if they’d be interested in hosting a reading, or a speech, and a signing. But that presumes the bookstore is carrying your book.
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The “Other” Library
When I remember going “marketing” (as my mother called food-shopping) with my mother as a small child, I remember that we always went in the car. But if it wasn’t groceries we were after on our round of errands, we might set out on foot—I in my stroller in the earlier years, or on my...