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25 March, 2022

Celebrating the 2022 Tucson Festival of Books

By |2022-03-25T15:06:43-07:00March 25, 2022|Marketing, News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Celebrating the 2022 Tucson Festival of Books

 

Thank you to everyone who attended our 2022 Tucson Festival of Books booth!

After two years of the pandemic preventing an in-person Festival, everyone came in full force. We are grateful to our authors, the Festival organizers, the University of Arizona, and everyone who showed up for a fantastic 2022 Tucson Festival of Books!

In addition to making new connections and meeting with old friends, our authors sold a lot of books—and that’s thanks to all of you.

We can’t wait to see you all again next year! And hopefully see some new faces as well.

20 September, 2018

Is It Brain Surgery?

By |2018-09-20T15:33:42-07:00September 20, 2018|News, Publishing, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Is It Brain Surgery?

There’s an anecdote which I’ve heard attributed to a few different famous authors, including Margaret Atwood, though I read somewhere that she says it didn’t originate with her. It goes like this:

A famous writer is at a party. She’s chatting with a brain surgeon. The brain surgeon, upon hearing who she is, gets excited, and says that when he retires he’s going become a writer. The writer quips snidely, “Oh really? When I retire, I’m going to become a brain surgeon.” The author, here, implies that writing should be left to professionals.

Here’s where I think she gets it wrong. Of course there are activities we wouldn’t ever do without years of formal training and professional licensing, like brain surgery, nuclear-reactor design, and fighter jet piloting, because lives depend on our performance. But there are also activities that many of us do as […]

20 August, 2018

Tell Me a Story, Friend

By |2018-08-20T10:51:05-07:00August 20, 2018|News, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing|Comments Off on Tell Me a Story, Friend

This Summer I had the pleasure of seeing three people, who in various ways I connect with through book publishing, tell stories from the stage at storytelling events. For years I’ve been a big fan of The Moth storytelling radio hour and similar podcasts, so it was a real delight to hear people I actually know tell stories from the stage.

The first two storytellers I saw at one of the amazing monthly shows put on by Odyssey Storytelling of Tucson. The theme for the show was Different. Terry Filipowicz, my cohort on the Book and Movie Biz Genre of the Book and Author Committee for the Tucson Festival of Books (wow, that’s a mouthful), Vice President at Great Potential Press, and Instructor at Pima Community College, and Ethel Lee-Miller (etheleemiller.com), Wheatmark author, writing editor and coach, public speaking coach, […]

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