Posts Tagged ‘Texas Book Festival’
Texas Book Festival 2013
Returning to Austin I will be returning to Austin this year for the annual Texas Book Festival! You may recall last year’s trip, in which I learned exciting things like how to pronounce Chuy’s, the difference between fiction and non-fiction, and how to survive a hurricane in a hotel nowhere near the hurricane. This year I am hoping…
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Mondays are for trivia I have a few relatives in the South. I don’t talk about them all that often, but they’re there, and they live in portions of Louisiana (my mother grew up in Lake Charles) and parts of Texas, and probably a fair number of other places I’m less familiar with. So when…
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Sunday is for Sandy While all of us authory/publishy types were hanging out in downtown Austin on a brisk Saturday, a hurricane you may have heard something about was aiming for the East Coast, and it was shaping up to be an issue for those of us who A: reside on the East Coast, and…
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Friday night: Never go into room 331 I don’t sleep well my first night in a strange bed. It doesn’t seem to matter how comfortable or strange that bed happens to be, nor how tired I am. (This was an especially large problem the two times I had to go on television.) So my not…
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Various anecdotes I am not the sort of person that instinctively takes photographs, possibly because I am not currently the sort of person who has a phone that takes decent photographs. For most of my life my chosen method of archiving events has been to write about them. For instance, I have few photos of…
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The cost of printing As I get ready for my weekend in Austin I would like to call your attention to this press release from earlier today: The publishing house that brought you “Fifty Shades of Grey” announces better quality and lower priced books for loyal customers To summarize, the per-book cost for print editions of Immortal and Hellenic…
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Austin is coming up As I mentioned last week, I’ll be attending the Texas Book Festival at the end of October. Specifically– if you’re looking for me, I’ll be arriving Friday afternoon 10/26 and leaving Monday morning 10/29. The festival itself is 10/27 – 10/28. Below is a press release link from The Writer’s Coffee Shop with…
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Austin! I’m finalizing plans right now to appear at the Texas Book Festival in Austin on October 27 and 28. I’ll be there to sign copies of Immortal and Hellenic Immortal, meet a bunch of people from the publishing house I am currently only acquainted with via email, and probably to drink too much. Oh and also to see what…
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