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 […]
This is a very belated post about one of Peschel Press’s appearances. But better late than never, yeah? We’ve been developing a relationship with Michelle, owner of Cupboard Maker Books. She’s a voracious reader, so owning a bookstore turned out to be a natural fit for her. If you’ve never been by her bookstore you’re […]
Today’s parody comes from the latest volume in the 223B Casebook series: “Sherlock Holmes Jazz Age Parodies and Pastiches I: 1920-1924.” (Amazon Kindle)Stories from the 223B casebook — stories published during Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s lifetime (plus later ones I liked) — are published here every Wednesday. The list of those published at PlanetPeschel can […]
An excerpt from “Writers Gone Wild 2: The Sequel” a work in progress One of the great novelists of his time, Charles Dickens wrote with feeling and even rage about abandonment, poverty, and the hard life of orphans. That’s because he learned about the hard life of Victorian Britain firsthand, courtesy of his feckless father […]