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SELF-DEFENSE FOR RADICALS -- Newest Release from Mickey Z.

brad g. posted an article on - Dec 2, 2009, 11:30 am
Here's something that showed up in my inbox that looks like a fun and important read: COMING IN DECEMBER Self-Defense for Radicals: A to Z Guide for Subversive Struggle By Mickey Z ...
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Vox Pop, Sander, and Me -- Chapter 2

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 30, 2009, 8:23 pm
Vox Pop, Sander, and Me -- Chapter 2 Mid-sentence the photographer across the street entered my awareness. How long had he been standing there? Sunglasses, khaki jacket, muscular, bulky camera, snap...
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Happy Thanksgiving from the IndieBookMan and his Friends!

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 5:59 pm
We hope you who are in the good old US of A with me are having a great time celebrating the usurpation of a continent from the folks who were already living here... and I know I sure am! Turkey, fami...
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Sander Hicks on Vox Pop, selling books and The Rebel Bookseller

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 12:04 am
I love this interview with the great Sander Hicks... he has some good thoughts on business, marketing books and even gets a great plug in for our own Andy Laties' book The Rebel Bookseller:
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"Caveat on AuthorsBookshop.com," some disclosure and clarification.

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 7:33 am
On Sunday afternoon I received the latest edition of "Cantaranews," an occasional newsletter report on the literary quarterly Cantaraville. In it, Cantara Christopher (the editor and owner of Cantara...
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To Tweet or Not to Tweet?

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 1:08 pm
That seems to be the question I'm being forced to ask myself. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer yet another techie, time-eating attempt at book promotion Or to take arms 'gainst a sea o...
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Report from the Mountains #39

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 10:26 am
... poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone, in the range of the red-tail and raven ... Report from the Mountains #39 is now onl...
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Radio Show Episode 5 Podcast

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 10:05 am
This was a really fun interview, and I think probably to date the most useful to indie publishers. Kelly Powers owns Obie Joe Media, a marketing firm for publishers and she had a loooot to say about ...
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Palin's Book "Going Rogue"; Questionable Truths?

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 8:05 am
Well, the book is out to advanced press. And some left-leaning bloggers and websites are combing through Palin's claims. If you aren't a fan of Palin, you probably aren't surprised to he...
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"An Industry Gone Mad"

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 1:25 pm
Here's another installment from my forthcoming book. (I won't post every chapter, only occassional ones.) VoxPop, Sander and Me -- Chapter 3 “Fifty thousand in cash! Fifty thousand in cash...
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Review of A MODEL YEAR by Gina Myers

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 11:55 am
A Model Year by Gina Myers Coconut Books, 2009 Something profound, exciting, and almost frightening takes place when reading Myers’ A Model Year. The individual poems begin to act upon each other i...
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Radio Show Episode 4 Podcast

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 9:52 pm
Sorry this one is late getting up. I had a problem with the mp3 file, and was unable to get it straightened out till tonight, when I could get Eric Willison, the shows executive producer and sound en...
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NEW: Free shipping at AuthorsBookshop.com!

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 9:54 pm
For the first time ever, AuthorsBookshop is making a move that has set Amazon apart for years. We are offering free shipping. This is something I have always wanted to do, and the time is finally ri...
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The IndieBookMan Radio Show #5: Kelly Powers

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 9:50 pm
THIS WEEK - we visit with Kelly Powers, owner, along with her her business partner and husband Ellis L. Marsalis, III, of Obie Joe Media. Obie Joe is a marketing agency that specializes in niche and i...
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Report from the Mountains #38

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 9:14 pm
... poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the redtail and the raven ... This week's episode feature...
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On the Importance of Late Bloomers in Literature

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 11:00 pm
For the entire article, go to Malcolm Gladwell here. Ben Fountain was an associate in the real-estate practice at the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, just a few years out of ...
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Jason Fisk's THE SAGGING: SPIRITS & SKIN

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 12:34 pm
The Sagging: Spirits & Skin. Poetry by Jason Fisk Propaganda Press, 2009 The Sagging: Spirits & Skin sings eloquent tales of loss and the big truths that are learned within small pieces of emptiness....
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A Solution for Capital-Starved Independent Bookstores

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 11:57 am
Yesterday on the bookstore industry newsletter Shelf Awareness, this remarkable proposal was floated. (My personal response is appended further down in this blogpost.) A Solution for Capital-Starved ...
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Mickey Z. Wants Your Revolutionary Poetry

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 1:15 pm
Here's something that showed up in my inbox recently: Calling all feminists, wizards, Queer theorists, ex-Black Panthers, Christians, Green activists, avant-gardists, Kabbalists, vegans, Hawaiian...
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Report from the Mountains #37

brad g. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 11:13 am
... poetry & jazz from the Grizfork, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the redtail and raven ... Report from the Mountains #37 is now online,...
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Episode 3 Podcast

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 9:30 pm
Show#: 3 Aired: 10/14/09 Guest: Devlon E. Wadell Featured book: Two Brothers, One North One South. I am a little late in posting it, but show #3 is up... has been for a few days now. I really reall...
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The IndieBookMan Radio Show #4: William P. Tandy

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 9:25 pm
THIS WEEK - we sit down with William P. Tandy, Owner of Baltimore's Eight Stone Press, and publisher of the loosely Baltimore Based zine, "Smile Hon, Your In Baltimore" a regular publication that ...
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Seeking Poetry Submissions for CounterPunch

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 12:19 pm
CounterPunch is the internationally renowned political newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. It's weekly installment "Poets' Basement" has published work by Robert Cre...
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badbadbad...

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 9:22 am
Well, the age is upon us. It is time for novels to become more than they ever have been. Video, music, literature... it's all hitting the blender and the blender is on "puree." Hold on tight. ...
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Free Books: Our Future?

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 8:53 am
Malcolm Gladwell had this to say in a recent New Yorker:1. At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May, James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News, told Congress about negotiations he'd ...
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John McCain Does Something Right—The Internet Freedom Act

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 8:18 pm
Thanks to author and media commentator Paul Levinson for this cross-posting: I voted for Barack Obama, don't like Fox News, and think our health system is in need of long due reform. I thought t...
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Getting a little Nookie?

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 8:46 am
Ok, so I don't have a Nook in hand yet. Unlike the high-flying super famous tech bloggers of which I am pretty envious, I don't have gadget companies sending me stuff for free in hopes that I...
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What Steve Jobs Actually Said About Ebooks

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 7:50 am
From Techcrunch:Q: Has your opinion of e-readers changed? A: I’m sure there will always be dedicated devices, and they may have a few advantages in doing just one thing. But I think the general...
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A great resource for indie book writers, readers and lovers...

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 7:51 pm
I just discovered (thanks to badbadbad) a website that serves as a great resource if you are an indie publisher, looking to get published by an indie publisher or looking for places to buy indie books...
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Kindle On PC Open Platform

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 12:47 pm
From today's Publishers Weekly: Beginning in November, Amazon will begin offering free downloads of Kindle for PC, an e-reading application that will allow consumers to download Kindle edition e-...
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Report from the Mountains #36

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 2:54 pm
... poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the redtail and raven ... Report #36 is now online, featuring...
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The Future of Books

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 4:49 pm
Last night on the Indiebookman radio show, Brad mused about my perspective on eBooks. The answer is that I do not believe printed books are endangered, and I assume there will always be new developmen...
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Vox Pop, Sander, and Me -- Chapter One

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 11:05 am
I'm working on a new book. Here's the first chapter! Vox Pop, Sander, and Me Chapter One By Andrew Laties “Who will screw the chains? How will they screw the chains? When will they screw...
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The IndieBookMan Radio Show #3: Devlon E. Waddell!

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 11:25 pm
THIS WEEK - we sit down with Baltimore author, essayist, publisher and creative non-fiction writer Devlon E. Waddell. His book, Syrup Sandwich, is an enlightening exploration by an urban black man fru...
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Report from the Mountains #35

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 12:12 pm
"Report from the Mountains" a weekly poetry/jazz broadcast on WUCX 90.1 FM and online ... from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the r...
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Barack Obama slated to win Tour de France

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 9:17 am
Hot on the heels of his Nobel Peace Prize win, it has been anounced that U.S. President Barak Obama is slated to win France's Tour de France bycicle race. This honor will continue his string of l...
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Some Misplaced Joan of Arc by Leah Angstman

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 4:36 pm
Book Review: some misplaced joan of arc by leah angstman Propaganda Press, 2009 reviewed by Marc Beaudin From the stack of books that I pulled from a large envelope, this one struck me instantly: th...
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Canadians spared from Kindle Onslaught!

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 7:13 am
Oh. I forgot to mention yesterday. In case you hadn't heard. Amazon announced that the Kindle is going international. Except Canada. Sorry Canada - you still have to read your books on paper.
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I got my 4th Abe's Penny!

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 1:35 pm
So, I got my fourth and final "Abe's Penny" the other day (Volume 1.7). Four postcards in all. I love them. If you didn't catch it, I first posted about Abe's Penny here. According to e...
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Ebookwise Versus the Kindle—A Publisher's Viewpoint

brad g. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 12:33 pm
As the publisher of both ebooks—11 to date, with two more just acquired—as well as paperbacks, I think Cantarabooks has made a pretty good showing in the past two and three-quarter years years in ...
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Author book signing schedule, Baltimore Book Festival

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 11:30 pm
One of my favorite things about hosting the AuthorsBookshop booth at the Baltimore Book Festival every year is giving indie authors an opportunity to meet their readers and sign books. We have a great...
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Radio Show #2 Podcast

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 11:07 pm
Show#: 2 Aired: 9/23/09 Guest: Angel Solera Featured book: To Love Mercy, Frank S. Joseph Here is Show #2. I think I am starting to get the hang of this a little bit. I really enjoyed the intervie...
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Cantara's AB Pick: Into the Woods and Back Out Again

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 11:00 pm
Michael, senior editor of Cantarabooks and author of four novels, will be at the AuthorsBookshop booth today through Sunday at the Baltimore Book Festival (on the 600 block of Charles Street in the Mo...
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James Joyce, Corrupter of Student Writers of America

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 10:09 pm
Ah, chewy quasi-literary journalism to sink your teeth into! In "Dead End", a piece in this week's CityPaper, writer John Barry (creator of the Baltimore-based litblog 510 Readings) gets on that l...
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A little milestone...

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 12:50 pm
I just noticed, with this posting we have officially surpassed the total number of posts I made in all of 2008! Thanks to Cantara, Andy and Marc! You guys are the best.
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Radio Show #2: Angelo Solera

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 6:45 pm
Tonight we talk with Angelo Solera, author of The Journey, el Camino and owner of Solera Publishing. Angelo Solera spent most of his childhood in an orphanage in Salamanca Spain. He immigrated to th...
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Complete the "Bookfest Trifecta" and get a free book!

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 10:01 pm
I know you love book festivals. We usually have to wait months in between them, but not this weekend in the Baltimore/DC area. It's book festival madness! Three great festivals are going on at o...
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Report from the Mountains #32 Now Online

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 10:26 am
Report from the Mountains, a weekly radio program of poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio: in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the Redtail a...
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The IndieBookMan radio show for Sept 23rd with Angelo Solera

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 8:38 am
Show #2 will be broadcast live this Wednesday, September 23rd at 8PM e.s.t. Thank you so much to all who tuned in last show, we had a good crowd and really hope to build on it this week! The IndieBoo...
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Handselling Hero

brad g. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 9:24 pm
I think I have a new hero. His name is Christopher Herz, from Canal Publishing and his book is The Last Block in Harlem. This guy takes indie/guerrilla marketing to absolute new heights. What he does...
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