If you’re a reader, God bless you. You are the butter to the writer’s bread, the sustaining force whom we drive to please. But if you’re an author, nothing I’m about to say will surprise you. And if you’re an eager, hopeful writer… well, none of us face this alone. Writing has always been hard.Continue reading “The pluckiness of the modern author”
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National Independent Bookstore Day & ACE Open Studio Tour
This blog post is a reminder to mark your calendars for April 29 and celebrate National Independent Bookstore Day with your local bookstore or if you are in driving distance, come see us at Easton’s Book and Puppet Company. And remember in addition to our events with Echo City Capers, Larry Sceurman, Thurston Gill, NancyContinue reading “National Independent Bookstore Day & ACE Open Studio Tour”
Final Day of the Easton Book Festival 2022: Small Press Expo
We attended the small press book expo at Easton Book Festival 2022 today, selling our own books, Nancy Scott’s chapbooks and William D. Prystauk’s Kink Noir series. It was a lovely autumn day with new friends from Pink Trees Press from New York City. We visited with friends from Book and Puppet Company and gotContinue reading “Final Day of the Easton Book Festival 2022: Small Press Expo”
Getting ready for a conversation about (writing) sex
Angel Ackerman and William Prystauk will be hosting a live conversation about writing sex scenes at Book and Puppet Company this Saturday night (October 22, 7:30 p.m.) as part of the Easton Book Festival. The event is free and open to anyone 18 or older. Last night Angel went through the first two volumes ofContinue reading “Getting ready for a conversation about (writing) sex”
Venues where you can celebrate books in the Lehigh Valley
Hello, readers, writers and bibliophiles. The fall book season is upon us… and I don’t mean Parisian Phoenix releasing new titles (although we’re so close to releasing The Itty Bitty How to Cat Book that I can taste it. Contact us to preorder yours now by credit card, or PayPal.) But I’m actually referring theContinue reading “Venues where you can celebrate books in the Lehigh Valley”
Exploring Bookshop.org and supporting our authors, a review of Tiffani Velez’s The Search
Last week, we set up an affiliate link with Bookshop.org, an organization that supports independent booksellers. Here in the Lehigh Valley, we have two great independent bookstores, Book & Puppet Company in downtown Easton and Let’s Play Books in Emmaus. The concept is brilliant. Readers can order their books online and designate their favorite retailerContinue reading “Exploring Bookshop.org and supporting our authors, a review of Tiffani Velez’s The Search”
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