Category Archives: random babble
Sound + Noise Readings
Curtis Smith has a bunch of readings scheduled in various Pennsylvania locations over the next couple of weeks: October 18th: speaking and reading at Push to Publish Conference, Rosemont College October 23rd: speaking and reading at Middletown Arts Collective, Middletown, … Continue reading
Linkage
Paul Elwork has a new story up at SmokeLong Quarterly called How Anything Got Done. Jack Ballard, whose novel Rock Dance is coming out later this month, is a musician as well. Some of his music can be found here.
Banned Books Week
It’s the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, and the Guardian has up a little quiz to test your knowledge concerning book censorship. The ALA has also updated its challenged books list with 2007 records here, which is always an … Continue reading
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
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
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
We’ll schedule vacation for the World Cup…
Actually, in a valiant attempt to continue working while at the same time watching as many matches as possible, Tenant B and I tried to set up the old TV currently gathering dust in the garage in the office this … Continue reading
Jeff Vande Zande, the author mentioned in our last post, has just written a very complimentary review of The Tea House as well. Other than that, we here at Casperian Books are incredibly busy juggling the fall list with Euro … Continue reading
Couple of links
There’s a fan review of Quid Pro Quo up at the Uniquely Pleasurable website. Then check out this author. Instead of blasting us with several pages worth of capslocked abuse after we declined to review his novel (I kid you … Continue reading
Constance Speaks!
Was that dramatic enough? Constance, copywriter par excellence, will be contributing an occasional column here, and this is her introduction: Copywriting Lily has asked me to address potential authors regarding what I am reading for when I write a blurb. … Continue reading
Winning Queries, Take Three
This was the original query for Without Wax: Dear Lily, I have enclosed for your consideration the opening 5,000 words of a documentary novel entitled WITHOUT WAX. Wax Williams is the biggest star in the adult film world, but he … Continue reading
Winning Queries, Take Two
After very much enjoying the writing sample submitted together with this query letter, we requested the entire manuscript to review and placed it in our work queue. When we followed up a few weeks later with a status update, we … Continue reading
Winning Queries, Take One
We’re getting a lot of queries at the moment, and the most important rule about querying anyone obviously is to follow that party’s submission guidelines/requirements, but I also figure it might be helpful for the authors out there to see … Continue reading
Useful Toys
My mom is currently cavorting around New York City, trying to get acclimatized to a US time zone on her way here to visit for a month, with the result that Dad’s been bumming around the Internet a lot more … Continue reading
A New Experience
This weekend I found a letter in our PO Box from an inmate at an Oregon prison asking us to donate books to the prison library he’s trying to build. Now, it’s not that we’re not in favor libraries in … Continue reading
Ever dumped someone because of their taste in books?
The New York Times Book Review has a rather interesting article up called It’s Not You, It’s Your Books, which is about maintaining a relationship with someone whose reading tastes don’t mesh with your own. I can’t say I’ve ever … Continue reading