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The amazing Roberto

I picked up the amazing little Men of Letters & People of Substance at Odyssey Books in S. Hadley, MA as I know the author...and I was enraptured!! Roberto has used different fonts to create images of famous people, and more. It is magical, as is his earlier work with animals; check out Bembo's Zoo!

hot indie press

Check out the edgy, smart offerings at Melville House Publishing.

are you woofin' me?

More Dogfessions are posted!

dancing cupcakes

Wonderful literary items await you at the Olive Reader..and a dancing cupcake video?!

check it out!

Ok, I learned this at a bar, and once you hear this you'll understand why no women gravitated to our little group of publishing wonks. We were talking about...drumroll...check digits! Yes, the ISBN check digit. Ok, we did discuss other things, but this is what has stuck with me and the young sprout who clued me into how it's calculated pointed me in the direction of Wikipedia and the full story of isbn's. I am giddy with knowledge this AM.

Austen powers

In honor of the completion of the complete Jane Austen on Masterpiece, Book Club Girl is running a contest for some of our Austen books.

free-ebook giveaway for Eos

We just posted a new one, FLIGHT OF THE NIGHTHAWKS for free download.

comp lit

Jenny Davidson (The Explosionist, Summer '08, HarperTeen) has a wonderful, long-running blog about literature and reading. It's called Light Reading, and while her book is for teens, she's also a professor of comp lit at Columbia, and her tastes are wide-ranging.

off to the show

It's the nat'l book show this weekend, BookExpo America. A GREAT chance to bring authors and booksellers together and to talk business trends with all. The show kicks off at Javits Friday, but there's a full day of education on Thursday, a place where future trends are uncovered. (In 1991, a bookseller told the gathered about a new thing - reading groups - which went on to be THE phenom of the 90's.) What's next? All things digital, like information on what's selling shared between stores (Above the Treeline) to ongoing training and cost issues.

As for me, I have my eyes and ears open, and pockets full of throat lozenges and snack bars if we work through lunch; much coffee also to be consumed. Also this year, I will have cortisone for the nice poison ivy I got on my neck. It's always something.

delightful book!!

Absolutely LOVE Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, just out from Soft Skull Press. It's a fictional take on Leonard Woolf's pet and his life with Virginia in London before WW2. Charming and poignant and a sweet treat in a short, beautifully-designed paperback.