Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Phoning It In

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So I’ve been a bookseller for about a month now, and it’s been a somewhat interesting experience. I can’t say I’ve learned a lot about comm...
Monday, February 8, 2021

Bookseller

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Have you harbored a secret—or maybe even a not-so-secret—dream of opening a bookshop? To spend your days surrounded by precious old tomes, w...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Namesake

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“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under th...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Can’t Imagine

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Today is one of those days seemingly calculated to make baby-boomers feel old. Forty years ago on this date in Manhattan a troubled 25-year-...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

Hand of God

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Note: This particular entry is being cross-posted on both my book and expat blogs . Because of my personality type, I find myself compulsiv...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Thumb Out

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It happened again the other day. On one of my occasional isolated Covid walks, I met a neighbor, and we had a chat to catch up. He reported ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The Close Shave

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In Chapter 22 of Searching for Cunégonde, the protagonist Dallas shaves off his friend Justin’s beard. I probably wrote the first draft of ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Going for Cover

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Despite the old aphorism, plenty of people apparently do judge books by their covers. Experts in marketing tell us that a book’s cover is on...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

The Eternal Quest

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So, Scott, what’s your book about? That’s a reasonable question to address on a blog that is meant to be a means of communication between m...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Three’s Company

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“I read the whole thing and I could not stop. Best work of the trilogy, so tight with the right amount of suspense. Lovely twist at the end....