Archive for the 'Book Talk' Category (Chronologically Listed)

The Ever Evolving LibraryThing July 8th, 2008

    I’ll say it again… if you’re not on LibraryThing you are REALLY missing out. The only downside is that the updates and new features are rolling out so quickly that I can’t keep up. Every few weeks I feel like I’m learning a new service.
    They have a new home page (think Facebook, but for books) […]

Ghost (Writer) in the machine April 14th, 2008

    Philip Parker is the most prolific author in history, according to Amazon. The NY Times ran this article about Philip Parker and his amazing technicolor technical writing machines. Apparently, Parker unleashes his computers on the Internet, which look in every nook and cranny to glean all stats, numbers, data, etc. Then Parker peppers in a […]

New favorite haunt April 11th, 2008

    We spent last weekend over in the Peach State, getting lost in Atlanta. Between bouts of “where the !@#$%^&! are we” I managed to squeeze in a few bookstore visits. My goal was to visit only stores I’d never been to… and I hit the jackpot.

Alabama Author Expo April 11th, 2008

    The Alabama Author Expo is tomorrow Saturday, April 12th at Vulcan Park. I’m not sure why they scheduled it for the same day as Alabama Bound, but there will be a handful of authors there and a special kids area.
    These authors are slated to be there for signings: Jo Kittinger, Jim Lowe, Charles Ghigna, Kathy […]

Clear your calendar April 11th, 2008

    Tomorrow, April 12th is Alabama Bound. It’s the tenth year for the author festival and is a little different this year as it is tied in with our local The Big Read push.
    Also…
    April 19th is just around the corner and that is when the 2008 Alabama Book Festival is taking place. It’s 9am-4pm that Saturday […]

Amazon, again April 10th, 2008

    Wow, if there is any truth to this tid-bit Amazon is getting good at throwing their weight around. On the heels, of the P.O.D. smack-down, publishers in the U.K. now fear an Amazonian backlash over pricing structures.
    Basically, the gist is Amazon prices all they offer at a big discount. Some publishers, in order to lure […]

April 10th, 2008

    Tonight, Susannah Felts will be signing her new book This Will Go Down in Your Permanent Record at the Little Professor, in Homewood, from 6p-8p.

King and Conroy April 10th, 2008

    This one is going to make my wife very happy. We haven’t missed a Cassandra King signing yet. She’s even gone so far as to find a signed copy of Making Waves in Zion back when she was Cassandra King Ray and publishing with Black Belt Press. Well, here is a video of hubby Pat […]

Local author sheds light on local liquor laws and history April 9th, 2008

    Joe Coker, a Samford Religion professor, has turned his doctorial thesis into a book, Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement. (Nov2007/Univ. of Kentucky Press) It sounds very facinating as it looks at the history of the South’s view of alcohol and prohibition, through the lens of […]

Lightning strikes Amazon April 1st, 2008

    Let’s hear it for compeititon! Amazon has been forced to spell out exactly what their new POD policies allow and ban. In response to a letter from competitor Lightning Source’s John Ingram, Amazon has conceded that there are still ways to sell your POD books on site without using their Booksurge program…
    Amazon further notes that […]