We’ve got a number of books that came to fruition at the same time to talk about, plus an upcoming appearance at Scintillation of Scions 2018! Last one first: We’ll be driving down Friday to the Sheraton BWI Hotel to showcase our books at Scintillation of Scions 2018. After years of appearing at craft and […]
One fun aspect of Sherlock Holmes fandom is that it gives you a wide field to indulge in your passion, especially if it involves research. There are people who write papers on Victorian history, or who investigate the stories to establish when they occurred. If you’re more interested in room design and furnishings, you can […]
It’s been a long day. The canopy has been set up, the car’s packed with books, and Saturday we’ll be in downtown Hershey for the brand-new Hershey Artfest. This is the rebranded Art on Chocolate that we’ve been selling books at for several years. The two groups that ran that event have split and each […]
Teresa and I spent Saturday at the Hershey Library for its Local Authors Day. More than 30 authors came out to meet the true readers and talk about their books. There was a raffle to give away gift cards, and time set aside for the authors to talk about anything they wanted, whether it be […]
If I believed in the “xxx is my spirit animal” meme, I’d make mine Joy Deja King. She is an inspiration to self-published writers, embracing the virtues of hard work, high energy, creative decision-making, and savvy marketing. My wife and I encountered one of her books at the Dauphin County library’s local authors day I […]
The Dauphin County library system held its annual local authors day at the East Shore branch, so Teresa and I went out to see what was happening. First, we hung out with Samantha Prescott and Sherry Knowlton. We talked a lot about book covers and the process behind getting them designed. I was especially impressed […]
Hey Bill, what do you think of that new Agatha Christie biography reviewed in The Wall Street Journal? Without having read it, I can tell you that it’s a good family-authorized book with all the pluses and minuses that it implies. That’s because “Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life,” was published in 2006 as “Agatha Christie: […]
Update: Last week, I talked about how I entered a contest in 2001 to write the conclusion to an unpublished Mark Twain novella “A Murder, A Mystery, and a Marriage.” The Buffalo public library, which ran the contest to bring publicity to the fact that it acquired the entirety of the manuscript to “Huckleberry Finn,” […]
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time for Sherlock parodies day! Today, despite popular demand, I’m returning to the Washington Times for another adventure about the great detective, Mortimer Mudge. (The last one was “Mortimer Mudge and the Fur Watch-Chain.“). This piece of macabre silly logic by the anonymous “Rhoda Montade” appeared in the Aug. […]
It’s been awhile since I updated you on the TwainLock project. Actually, except for a page on the Peschel Press website, I don’t think I’ve said anything about it. That’s what happens when you’re not doing that well at sharing. TwainLock: In the Beginning … It started with a contest. I had just started working […]