We here at Peschel Press (that’s Bill and me) have done several book signings at Cupboard Maker Books, so naturally we showed up for the Small Business Saturday signing after Thanksgiving. From previous blogposts, you, dear reader, may have gathered that Michelle has not only 150,000 books in her store but she also has cats. […]
On Tuesday I returned to work at PennLive, except that I was working for myself this time. The company held its first Local Author Showcase, and organized by Mary Clayton, marketing event planner, it was a blast! About a dozen authors displayed their books in a room on the first floor, and for several hours […]
It’s been awhile since I printed a Sherlock parody, so let’s try one from Rhoda Montade, the nom de plume of an anonymous scribe who wrote for The Washington Times. In “Sherlock Holmes Jazz Age Parodies and Pastiches I: 1920-1924,” I printed Montade’s “The Gubb Diamond Robbery.” But while doing my research, I discovered no […]
Sometime later this year, I hope to finish and release “Hollywood Gone Wild,” a follow-up to “Writers Gone Wild.” This is one of the stories that will appear in the book, about a movie that was one of the weirdest, and frankly freakiest, collaborations between Washington and Hollywood. Politics can make strange bedfellows sometimes, but […]
This week in news about Peschel Press authors, we have news of a Crooked House movie, some graphic novel adaptations, and a Sherlock Holmes / Robin Hood parody. Agatha Christie Guardian readers peppered Sophie Hannah with questions: read her answers here. The Guardian also considered how Christie fooled so many people. It appeared at the […]
Quote: Do you know what moviemaking is? Eight hours of hard work each day to get three minutes of film. And during those eight hours there are maybe only ten or twelve minutes, if you’re lucky, of real creation. And maybe they don’t come. Then you have to gear yourself for another eight hours and […]
(Actual quote: “What I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes – it is inevitable. … If we hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the […]
Peschel Press has been participating in the Hershey Winter Arts and Crafts Show for several years now; our first year was November 2014. This year, November 3, 2018, was our fifth year with the show. Five years! It’s a milestone for a tiny press like ours. When we started, we had only a few titles […]
While this project is called “Writers Gone Wild: The Sequel” — or maybe “Writers Gone Wilder” — this anecdote is probably one of the mildest, but only because Dave Barry was ahead of his time in making an ass of himself on the Internet before the invention of social media turned it into the French […]
We had another flash signing at Cupboard Maker Books on Saturday, 13 October 2018. Cupboard Maker Books is our favorite bookstore, conveniently located in Enola, Pa. In addition to 150,000-plus books and several cats, Michelle, as longtime readers of this blog know, hosts author signings. In this case, she wanted a flash signing, which means […]