Facing the indies’ existential dilemma with good graphics and guts, the American Booksellers Association has launched IndieBound.org — the evolution of the organization’s BookSense program to connect readers (read: book-buyers) with local brick-and-mortar independent booksellers. Showing off its web-savvy, the ABA’s new movement-styled marketing effort is useful — as in, their google-mapping indie locator and [...]
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A new day at CaliforniaAuthors and a book lotto, too
Welcome to the new CaliforniaAuthors.com! Click around and you’ll find our familiar features with a fresh face and an easy-to-navigate new site.
To celebrate our re-launch, Kate and I are delighted to share an autographed copy of Mark Sarvas’ new novel, Harry, Revised.
Mark hosts the popular and often cheeky litblog, The Elegant Variation. Along [...]
Monkey Girl lotto update
We had a great response from across the country to this week’s Monkey Girl Sweepstakes.
Congratulations to our winners — Cheryl Shepherd-Adams and Janice Theriot will each receive a just-released copy of Monkey Girl: Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul autographed by author Edward Humes.
Here’s what the LA Times had to say about [...]
Monkey Girl book lotto
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes is just out in paperback this week. We have TWO autographed copies to share with CaliforniaAuthors.com readers.
Want one?
Just send us an email [to info at californiaauthors.com] with Monkey Girl in the subject line and we’ll enter you in [...]
Summer hours
Yes, postings here at CaliforniaAuthors have been kinda lite lately. Kate’s been painting and Donna’s been on the road working on SoCal So Cool, a travel book for Norton/Countrymen Press (more to come later) that this week required visiting extremely cool places like El Capitan Canyon and Ostrich Land.
So we update when we can … [...]
Twenty-two new
California books were added today to our one-of-a-kind list of California new releases. Don’t miss it!
Fresh for February
Don’t miss our one-of-a-kind list of new California books, updated today with 19 new entries.
A new day at CaliforniaAuthors and a book lotto, too
Welcome to the new CaliforniaAuthors.com! Click around and you’ll find our familiar features with a fresh face and an easy-to-navigate new site.
To celebrate our re-launch, Kate and I are delighted to share an autographed copy of Mark Sarvas’ new novel, Harry, Revised.
Mark hosts the popular and often cheeky litblog, The Elegant Variation. Along [...]
Monkey Girl lotto update
We had a great response from across the country to this week’s Monkey Girl Sweepstakes.
Congratulations to our winners — Cheryl Shepherd-Adams and Janice Theriot will each receive a just-released copy of Monkey Girl: Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul autographed by author Edward Humes.
Here’s what the LA Times had to say about [...]
Monkey Girl book lotto
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes is just out in paperback this week. We have TWO autographed copies to share with CaliforniaAuthors.com readers.
Want one?
Just send us an email [to info at californiaauthors.com] with Monkey Girl in the subject line and we’ll enter you in [...]
Summer hours
Yes, postings here at CaliforniaAuthors have been kinda lite lately. Kate’s been painting and Donna’s been on the road working on SoCal So Cool, a travel book for Norton/Countrymen Press (more to come later) that this week required visiting extremely cool places like El Capitan Canyon and Ostrich Land.
So we update when we can … [...]
Twenty-two new
California books were added today to our one-of-a-kind list of California new releases. Don’t miss it!
Fresh for February
Don’t miss our one-of-a-kind list of new California books, updated today with 19 new entries.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 