Monthly Archives: April 2009

A Fresh Approach to Book Tours

Promoting a new book is a lot of work, but it’s a labor of love. From utilizing social media like Twitter, Facebook, the blogosphere, and your own personal websites, there is also the ever glorious book tour. Traveling from city to city doing book readings to promote your latest work is a great way to [...]

Bookinist

We’ve posted about amazing libraries, bookshelves, and of course books, but nothing quite like this. The Bookinist is a chair that stores your books, can be moved to your favorite reading spots, and includes a reading light and storage area for pens, journals, etc. It can hold up to 80 paperback books, stored in the [...]

Bizarre Books

Have any of you seen the book, “Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities” by Russel Ash and Brian Lake? HarperCollins describes it as: “Amazing, illuminating, and gut-bustingly funny, Bizarre Books is the wonderfully twisted product of more than two decades of determined searching in forgotten corners of out-of-the-way libraries and through the literary detritus [...]

Help Blurb Win!

Blurb is in the running for two great awards and we need your help to win! Voting ends April 30th, which gives all of you just a few days to login and vote for Blurb to win a Webby and/or a coveted cnet Webware 100 Award. To help us win a Webby click here (we’re [...]