Category Archives: promotion
Shipping and Valentine’s Day Promotion
The US Postal Service very sneakily raised its rates for international priority mail and domestic priority mail shipments, so we have adjusted our pricing for those services accordingly. Rates for media mail shipments in the United States remain the same, … Continue reading
Marketing Advice from Curt Smith
Since I often refer authors asking for marketing advice to Curt Smith, I asked Curt to write a short blog post detailing his marketing approach. Here it is: Curt Smith on Marketing So you’ve gotten your first manuscript accepted? Congratulations. … Continue reading
Preditors and Editors Readers’ Poll
Dad went a little crazy nominating Casperian Books titles and covers in the Preditors and Editors Readers’ Pollfor 2008, so please take a moment to vote for your favorite Casperian Books title and spread the word. Last year, we did … Continue reading
Our Best Sale Ever!
With the economy in the toilet and sales never quite recovering from the summer slump, we’re including every one of our titles in a Black Friday sale! Every book is $10 only while supplies last!
Podcast
Sybil Baker read her short story “Dog House,” forthcoming in And Now for a Story… at the Meacham Writers’ Workshop last week. A free iTunes download/podcast is available if you go to this page and click on the “Subscribe to … 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
Quid Pro Quo starts shipping Tuesday, May 27th!
We’re pleased to announce the release of Manna Francis’ new novel Quid Pro Quo, the second book in the Administration series, which continues the story arc surrounding the near future dystopia of New London, professional investigator and interrogator Val Toreth, … Continue reading
Read an extract from End Credits by A. F. Rützy
Having successfully managed to drag my mother away from the nickel slots (curiously, the air conditioning in Harrah’s did not bother her), we returned to an overflowing e-mail inbox, which included an e-mail from A.F. Rützy letting us know that … Continue reading
Supersecret Quid Pro Quo Pre-Sale
Certain parties (I’m looking at you MMWD, with utmost love and respect, of course) are starting to make grabby hands for Quid Pro Quo by Manna Francis. Since our first print run just arrived, we’re having a supersecret pre-sale, letting … Continue reading
Pimpin’
By the way, did we mention that Without Wax is in stock at Powell’s Books (Burnside)? If you’re in the general Portland vicinity, why not head down there, admire the book, and maybe even purchase it? You’d be supporting both … Continue reading
Fair Warning
The US Postal Service is raising its rates next Monday (the 12th), which will affect our shipping rates, since we have to pass those increases on to our customers. So if you’ve been toying with buying one (or more) of … Continue reading
End Credits by A. F. Rützy
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of A. F. Rützy’s wryly comic and wonderfully weird debut, End Credits, a novel about life, death, and truth in advertising. Its protagonist, Raymond Kessel, is dead. Or is he? Death, it … Continue reading
April Sale!
There’s a passage in Terry Pratchett’s Maskerade where a publishing entrepreneur mutters, “I don’t know, authors wanting to be paid, good grief–” and storms off in a tizzy, which is a little how I feel whenever I start calculating royalty … Continue reading
And the winner is…
The advance copy of Manna Francis’ Quid Pro Quo will be going to Cristin in Connecticut!
New review of Without Wax
There’s another very nice review of Without Wax up at NewPages. And don’t forget, until March 31st, you have a chance to win an advance copy of Manna Francis’ Quid Pro Quo if you purchase any of our titles from … Continue reading
Author Events
Carol Fitzgerald’s Memo to Eliot Spitzer is very funny. And it’s so true! On to the upcoming author appearances: William Walsh, author of the forthcoming Without Wax, will be reading at the &Now Festival of Innovative Literature and Art on … Continue reading
Win a copy of Quid Pro Quo by Manna Francis
I hold in my hands the final printer’s proof of the second book in the Administration series, Quid Pro Quo by Manna Francis. This book contains the novella Quid Pro Quo, as well as the short stories Friday, Pancakes, Surprises, … Continue reading
It’s Small Press Month!
I am reliably informed that March is National Small Press Month here in the US, which should encourage American readers to give one or two of our titles a spin. Non-American readers, on the other hand, should be encouraged by … Continue reading
Miscellaneous News
For a limited time only, Harper Collins has made the entirety of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods available for free online. Now, we here at Casperian Books have been fans of Mr. Gaiman since he was a fanboy himself, but if … Continue reading