Author Archives: casperianbooks
Games & Players is now available!
We are pleased to announce the release of the third book in the Administration Series, Games & Players by Manna Francis. Games & Players begins with the novella Game, Set, which gives Toreth an up-close-and-personal introduction to the finer points … Continue reading
The News You’ve All Been Waiting For…
The first print run of Manna Francis’ Games & Players arrived today. Just sayin’. Unrelated but still worth checking out: Michael Kimball wrote A. F. Rützy’s Life Story in postcard format here.
Reviews
There’s a review of Sound + Noise and an accompanying interview with Curtis Smith in the current issue of ShowcasePA!. Click here to download a pdf of the relevant pages.
Linkage
Paul Elwork has a guest blog about The Tea House up at Skepchick: Critical Thinking at its Finest, so check it out!
Behind the Scenes
Well, the silence over the past few days had a lot to do with getting the spring list into shape, and it’s starting to look pretty good! We’re almost done with copyedits on three of our four spring releases (only … Continue reading
It’s a good week for reviews!
One dedicated reader wrote a very detailed review each of Mind Fuck and Quid Pro Quo, NewPages posted their review of Sound + Noise, and M. J. Rose wrote a ringing endorsement of The Tea House.
Sound + Noise by Curtis Smith
We are pleased to announce the release of Curtis Smith’s new novel Sound + Noise. Sound + Noise tells the story of Jackie and Tom, two ordinary people living parallel lives. When their paths finally intersect, the background hum of … Continue reading
Special Promotion
There’s an interview with Curtis Smith, author of the soon-to-be-released Sound + Noise up at What to Wear During an Orange Alert. Unrelatedly, today is my birthday, and since the celebrations for that sort of thing usually entail gifts, we’re … Continue reading
News Roundup
While from a sales perspective, this time of year is what in German one would call “Saure Gurken Zeit” (lit. pickle time–the black hole during the summer when absolutely nothing is happening), we’re starting to ramp up for fall. So … Continue reading
It’s a good media week!
Without Wax has a very nice review in the Boston Phoenix here, and there’s a feature with an author interview of William Walsh in the Providence Phoenix here.
Reviews, Weddings, and so on
There’s a new review of Without Wax at Gently Read Literature, and Jeff Vande Zande has written a review of End Credits. In other news, while I have been sitting on the SO’s couch here in South London, banging away … Continue reading
The World of Net Receipts
One of the things my Dad told me to blog about when we were happily sitting next to each other on my mother’s couch last weekend, both working on Casperian business on separate laptops, was how net receipts are calculated. … Continue reading
Author Appearance
Paul Elwork is going to make a guest appearance on The Odd Mind, a show on Blog Talk Radio on Tuesday, July 29th, at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.
Author Events
This just in: William Walsh will be reading at Timothy Gager’s Dire Literary Series at The Out of the Blue Art Gallery, 106 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA, on August 1, 2008. Featured readers begin at 9PM; open mic reading program … Continue reading
Making Books
There are some interesting publishing statistics over at Para Publishing for anyone interested. But that’s not really what I want to post about today. I want to post about lead time. My daytime job involves lead times of about one … Continue reading
This and That
There’s a rather excellent critical essay about Curtis Smith’s Sound + Noise, which is being released in September, at Prick of the Spindle. In other news, Friday’s e-mail from Dad (who’s taken over doing a lot of the link gathering … Continue reading
Reviews & Readings
The Philadelphia City Paper did a very nice write-up of The Tea House, in preparation for Paul’s reading at Port Richmond Books in Philadelphia, this coming Saturday at 2 p.m. (full details). William Walsh’s next reading will be at Ada … Continue reading
End of an era
Cody’s in Berkeley closes. I loved that store (the one on Telegraph). We used to spend hours in there and then go up the block to Moe’s and spend some more hours in there. Years ago, my partner-in-crime Casper was … Continue reading
Two Blogs in One Day!
This one’s actually even book-related… There’s a not-so-stellar-review of The Tea House at GUD Magazine–though rather interestingly they give the book three out of five stars on their goodreads. I guess the reviewer in this case hated everything we really … Continue reading