Shelf Awareness for Thursday, September 12, 2024


Park Row: Last Twilight in Paris by Pam Jenoff

Tor Books: Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

Zest Books:  A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds by Rebecca E Hirsch

Palgrave Macmillan:  Scotus 2023: Major Decisions and Developments of the Us Supreme Court (2024) (1ST ed.) edited by Morgan Marietta and Howard Schweber

Berkley Books: The Seven O'Clock Club by Amelia Ireland

News

NEIBA Fall Conference Kicks Off in Massachusetts

The Fall Conference of the New England Independent Booksellers Association began yesterday in Newton, Mass., with a keynote, panels, a rep picks lunch, and a busy author reception featuring more than 25 authors. Here are scenes from the author reception:

Kaitee Tredway (l.) of River Bend Bookshop, Glastonbury, Conn., with Christina Soontornvat, author of The Tryout (Graphix).

 

 

Kathy Detwiler (l.) of Buttonwood Books and Toys, Cohasset, Mass., with the author of El Niño (Scholastic), Pam Muñoz Ryan.

 

Aaron Becker (l.), author of Winter Light (Candlewick), with American Booksellers Association director of education Kim Hooyboer.

Pam French (l.), executive director of the Binc Foundation, with Crystal King, author of In the Garden of Monsters (Mira).

I.M. Aiken, author of The Little Ambulance War of Winchester County (Flare Books/Catalyst Press).

 

 

Photos: Siân Gaetano, John Mutter


Ivy Kids Eco: The Bison and the Butterfly: An Ecosystem Story by Alice Hemming, illustrated by Leschnikoff Nancy


New Owner at Pamlico Books, Washington, N.C.

Original owners Tom and Deb Ryan are selling Pamlico Books in Washington, N.C., to Lindsay Hall, the Washington Daily News reported.

Hall, who works as an elementary school teacher, has been in-store for the past several weeks learning the ropes from Ryan. The sale is expected to close on October 1, with September 21 being the last day that the Ryans are officially in charge of the store. Pamlico Books will have a soft opening during the first week of October, followed by a grand reopening planned for Tuesday, October 8.

"I'm so excited about all of this," Hall told the Washington Daily News. "I still have days when I can't believe I can say I own my own bookstore, so I have to give myself a pinch. I really love this community."

Initially, Hall will work part-time at the bookstore while her mother and one of her friends handle much of the day-to-day operations. Hall plans to work at the bookstore full-time by the end of the current school year. She noted that she doesn't have any major changes in the works, as she doesn't want to fix what isn't broken, but she will add some personal touches here and there.

Hall and her family moved to Washington four years ago, and once Pamlico Books opened, became immediate and avid customers. After the Ryans put the store up for sale earlier this summer, Hall was "sad to see Tom go because he had done such a good job." Eventually she decided to throw her hat into the ring; she and her husband met with Tom and Deb Ryan, and it seemed like a great fit.

The 1,400 sq. ft. store, which sells new and used books, toys, and games, first opened in June 2021. When the Ryans announced they were selling the store due to having to relocate for family reasons, they noted that the bookstore has been "a thriving, profitable business since inception."


Pajama Press:  Mystery at the Biltmore: The Vanderhoff Heist (Mystery at the Biltmore #1) by Colleen Nelson, Illustrated by Peggy Collins


Former Folio Books Staff Opening Noe Valley Books This Fall

This fall, four former staff members of Folio Books will open Noe Valley Books in the same San Francisco, Calif., storefront, Mission Local reported.

Folio Books, which had been in business at 3957 24th St. for a decade, closed earlier this year following the retirement of two longtime co-owners. In the spring four former staff members--Katerina Argyres, Isaiah Scandrette, Andrew McIntyre, and Kit Fitzgerald, announced that they were going to open a new store in the same location.

They launched a GoFundMe to help them open the new store. By July, it had raised over $100,000 and at present, the total sits at just over $133,000. The outpouring of community support was such that the four co-owners knew they had to name the store in honor of the Noe Valley community.

"It's simple," Argyres told Mission Local. "It's easy. It's exactly what it says in the name. I think that lasts longer than some very complicated names."

The storefront, which has been the home of various bookstores for nearly 40 years, has undergone significant renovations. While they've taken longer than the co-owners have expected, they believe they could have Noe Valley Books open as early as October.


Disruption Books: Our Differences Make Us Stronger: How We Heal Together by La June Montgomery Tabron, illustrated by Temika Grooms


Shuttered B&N Store in Tampa, Fla., to Reopen in New Space

Barnes & Noble closed its North Dale Mabry store in Tampa, Fla., earlier this month after 28 years in business, but plans to move into a new, larger space about a mile north and reopen early next year, the Business Observer reported. 

A B&N spokesperson said the reason for the relocation is that the company was unable to renew its lease. The new store, which is scheduled to open next February, will be at 13123 N. Dale Mabry Highway, in the Palms of Carrollwood shopping center. The space has been vacant since last year.


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Obituary Note: John Cassaday

Comics artist John Cassaday, co-creator of Planetary with Warren Ellis, Desperadoes with Jeff Mariotte, and I Am Legion with Fabien Nury, died September 3. He was 52. Noting that he was also the artist on Astonishing X-Men with Joss Whedon, Captain America with John Ney Rieber and Jeph Loeb, and Star Wars with Jason Aaron, Bleeding Cool reported that Cassaday "was a very popular, incredibly detailed, diverse and design-focused comic book artist with multiple Eisner Award wins to his name."

He began his career directing television news after attending film school, then pivoted to comics while working in construction. After some success with independent publishers, he was initially championed by comic book writer Mark Waid, who recalled their first meeting in the mid-1990s at Big Apple Comic Con. "John was pleasant, he was polite and well-mannered, and when he showed me his portfolio, I also knew he was tremendously talented for a newcomer. The next morning, I was having breakfast with writer Jeff Mariotte, who mentioned he was looking for an illustrator for his next series, Desperadoes. Boy, did he say that to the right guy, because I had just the artist in mind."

Cassaday followed Desperadoes from WildStorm with Ghost from Dark Horse, before working on Teen Titans, Flash, X-Men, Gen13, Superman/Batman, Hulk, and The Avengers for Marvel and DC. In 1999, he co-created Planetary with Ellis for Wildstorm/DC. Subsequently he relaunched X-Men with Whedon as Astonishing X-Men. His redesign of Captain America "became incredibly influential and heavily informed the Marvel Cinematic Universe portrayal of the character," Bleeding Cool noted. 

"My friend John Cassaday and I were important parts of our respective careers in comics," writer Jeff Mariotte noted. "Desperadoes was my first creator-owned title. It allowed me to work with a number of stellar talents. It sold well, and it helped ignite a boom in weird-western comics that's still ongoing. It made a name for me as a comics writer. John was the first artist on the series. He developed the visual appearance of the characters. He wasn't yet well known, but over the course of his run he became well known.... Now John is gone, way too young. I haven't seen him in 5 or 6 years, and now I won't see him again. Happy trails, partner, and thanks for riding with me."

Waid told the Hollywood Reporter: "Like [fellow artists] Neal Adams, Jim Steranko or Michael Golden, he is a touchstone, a reference point to the dozens and dozens of artists whose work was influenced by his. Most people are lucky if more than a dozen people are still talking about them a month after they pass. My friend John will be talked about and remembered by an entire industry for ages."

In a statement, Marvel said: "We're devastated by the loss of our dear friend, artist and comic book legend John Cassaday. His art was a master class in emotion, action and storytelling, and he captured the essence of every character he drew. John was one of the best, and he will always be part of our Marvel family."


Notes

Image of the Day: Playing Well at Zibby's Bookshop

Zibby's Bookshop, Santa Monica, Ca., hosted Sophie Brickman (r.) in conversation with actress Danielle Panabaker on September 9 to celebrate the launch of Plays Well with Others: A Novel (Morrow).


Reading Group Choices' Most Popular August Books

The most popular book club titles at Reading Group Choices in August were The Wisdom of the Willow: A Novel by Nancy Chadwick (She Writes Press) and Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leone Swann (Soho Crime).


Personnel Changes at Crown

Stacey Stein has been promoted to assistant director of publicity at Crown.


Media and Movies

Media Heat: Nick Corasaniti on Fresh Air

Today:
Fresh Air: Nick Corasaniti, author of I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony (Harper, $32, 9780062950789).

Tomorrow:
Today Show: Rickey Smiley, author of Sideshow: Living with Loss and Moving Forward with Faith (Thomas Nelson, $29.99, 9781400342990).

Good Morning America: Tamron Hall and Lish Steiling, authors of A Confident Cook: Recipes for Joyous, No-Pressure Fun in the Kitchen (Hyperion Avenue, $35, 9781368104043).

The View: Lauren Sánchez, author of The Fly Who Flew to Space (The Collective Book Studio, $19.95, 9781685550639).

The Talk: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, co-author of The Accomplice: A Novel (Amistad, $27.99, 9780063312906).


This Weekend on Book TV: Sebastian Junger on In My Time of Dying

Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this weekend from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Monday and focuses on political and historical books as well as the book industry. The following are highlights for this coming weekend. For more information, go to Book TV's website.

Saturday, September 14
1:15 p.m. John Gilbert McCurdy, author of Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh (‎Johns Hopkins University Press, $34.95, 9781421448534).

4:15 p.m. James Marcus, author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Princeton University Press, $29.95, 9780691254333).

Sunday, September 15
8 a.m. Meridith McGraw, author of Trump in Exile (Random House, $32, 9780593729632), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)

9 a.m. Ilana Redstone, author of The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More--and How We Can Judge Others Less (Pitchstone Publishing, $29.95, 9781634312561). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)

9:32 a.m. Randy Barnett, author of A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist (Encounter Books, $44.99, 9781641773775). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:32 p.m.)

10 a.m. Kim Wehle, author of Pardon Power: How The Pardon System Works--And Why (Woodhall Press, $22.95, 9781954907508). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)

2 p.m. Sebastian Junger, author of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife (Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781668050835), at BookPeople in Austin, Tex.

3:05 p.m. Renée DiResta, author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality (PublicAffairs, $34, 9781541703377).

4:20 p.m. H.R. McMaster, author of At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House (Harper, $32.50, 9780062899507).

5:15 p.m. Wilbur Ross, author of Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life (Regnery, $32.99, 9781510781719).

6:20 p.m. Dana Bash, author of America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History (Hanover Square Press, $32.99, 9781335081070), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.



Books & Authors

Awards: Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Longlist

The longlist has been unveiled for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, which recognizes "the best of nonfiction and is open to authors of any nationality." The winning author, to be named November 19, receives £50,000 (about $65,045), while the other shortlisted authors, who will be announced October 10, get £5,000 (about $6,505). This year's Baillie Gifford longlist includes: 

Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass (American-Canadian)
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (American)
The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke (British)
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell (British)
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan (Australian)
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen (American)
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Việt Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese-American)
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (British)
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck (Belgian), translated by David Colmer & David McKay
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (Indian-British-American)
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean by Helen Scales (British)
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz (American)


Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week

Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, September 17:

Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668017234) is a memoir by the former First Lady and Secretary of State.

Good Lookin' Cookin': A Year of Meals--A Lifetime of Family, Friends, and Food by Dolly Parton and Rachel Parton George (Ten Speed Press, $35, 9781984863164) shares 80 recipes from Dolly Parton and her sister.

Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves by Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert (Celadon Books, $35, 9781250859990) shares recipes conceived during the pandemic lockdown when the Colberts were forced to cook at home.

The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Cormac McCarthy and Manu Larcenet (Abrams ComicArts, $26.99, 9781419776779) was approved by McCarthy before his death.

We Solve Murders: A Novel by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653227) begins a new mystery series about a retired investigator and his thrill-seeking daughter-in-law.

The Night We Lost Him: A Novel by Laura Dave (S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books, $28.99, 9781668002933) is a thriller about estranged siblings investigating the death of their wealthy father.

Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik (Del Rey, $30, 9780593600351) collects 13 fantastical short stories.

Evil in Me by Brom (Tor Nightfire, $31.99, 9781250622013) is an occult fantasy about a possessed musician.

The Butcher Game: A Dr. Wren Muller Novel by Alaina Urquhart (Zando, $28, 9781638931249) is the second thriller told from the perspectives of a serial killer and the medical examiner hunting him.

Gracie Under the Waves by Linda Sue Park (Allida, $18.99, 9780063346291) features a young snorkeler who becomes inspired to fight climate change.

We Are Hunted by Tomi Oyemakinde (Feiwel and Friends, $19.99, 9781250868169) is a young adult novel in which the animals at an island resort turn feral and go after the tourists.

On Freedom by Timothy Snyder (Crown, $32, 9780593728727) explores the nuances of what freedom actually means.

Sideshow: Living with Loss and Moving Forward with Faith by Rickey Smiley (Thomas Nelson, $29.99, 9781400342990) is the memoir of a comedian who lost both his father and son to addiction.

Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground by Mirabai Starr (HarperOne, $26.99, 9780063317192) explores the transcendent experiences available in everyday life.

Paperbacks:
Day One Dictator: More Doonesbury in the Time of Trumpism by G.B. Trudeau (Andrews McMeel, $19.99, 9781524894344).

The Unplugged Hours: Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World by Hannah Brencher (Zondervan, $19.99,  ‎9780310367703).

Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood (Ace, $19, 9780593820070).

Ultra 85 by Logic (Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982158279).

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath (IDW Publishing, $17.99, 9798887241081).

The Old Jewish Men's Guide to Eating, Sleeping, and Futzing Around by Noah Rinsky (Workman, $19.99, 9781523523566).


IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites

From last week's Indie bestseller lists, available at IndieBound.org, here are the recommended titles, which are also Indie Next Great Reads:

Hardcover
The Instrumentalist: A Novel by Harriet Constable (Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668035825). "Inspired by a true story, The Instrumentalist immediately pulled me into 18th-century Venice. Anna Maria's journey to find love, meaning, and purpose in life kept me turning pages. It's so satisfying watching her learn to use her gift for good." --Michelle Ratto, A Thousand Stories, Herndon, Va.

Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home by Chris La Tray (Milkweed Editions, $28, 9781571313980). "With Becoming Little Shell, Chris La Tray takes a very personal journey of introspection and familiar heritage and connects it to the larger social issues of the Métis and other Indigenous peoples. This book is an accomplishment." --Mara Panich-Crouch, Fact & Fiction Downtown, Missoula, Mont.

Paperback
Bluff: Poems by Danez Smith (Graywolf Press, $18, 9781644452981). "Danez Smith is an artist grappling with the role of art at the end of the world. These poems shine a soft light into the darkest tunnels of our history, into the precise cuts they made into your soul, and leave you with something better than hope." --Michelle Carroll, Powell's Books, Portland, Ore.

Ages 4-8
What Can a Mess Make? by Bee Johnson (Holt, $18.99, 9781250900241). "A sweet and thoughtful story reminding us that not all messes are bad. They are often the result of joyful creative moments that bring us together--a wonderful lesson for children and parents alike." --Kaitlyn Reed, Read Between the Lynes, Woodstock, Ill.

Ages 8+
How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger (Greenwillow Books, $15.99, 9780063158146). "A sweet graphic novel. Watching Tara learn to navigate high school and experience her first crush was a complete joy. Hunsinger does an amazing job depicting the all-encompassing feeling of a first crush and all of the anxiety that comes with it." --Izzy Zox, Back Cove Books, Portland, Me.

Teen Readers: An Indies Introduce Title
Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell (Heartdrum, $19.99, 9780063318670). "This book is a powerful and thought-provoking story about the importance of community, the search for belonging, and the heart-wrenching realities of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). This book will leave you on the edge of your seat, challenging you to see through the smoke and discover the killer." --Kromeklia Bryant, Solid State Books, Washington, D.C.

[Many thanks to IndieBound and the ABA!]


Book Review

Review: The Bishop's Villa

The Bishop's Villa by Sacha Naspini, trans. by Clarissa Botsford (Europa Editions, $28 hardcover, 192p., 9798889660521, November 19, 2024)

Sacha Naspini (Nives) brings close and poignant attention to true events with his historical novel The Bishop's Villa, translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford.

In the fall of 1943, in the sleepy village of Le Case in Tuscany's Maremma region, a cobbler goes about his daily business. Solitary and quiet by nature, René makes do with just two fingers on his right hand following a childhood accident with a lathe; his nickname in town is Settebello, after the "lucky seven" card in scopa. When the local bishop rents out the seminary and surrounding villa to be used as a prison camp for the region's Jewish population, Le Case mostly plods on as before. Some local residents speak cruelly of the prisoners; many simply ignore their presence. René mends the shoes brought to him for repair by prison guards. For most townspeople, the war is poverty, deprivation, and the passage of time.

But René's neighbor Anna, a lifelong friend, has just lost her son, who fought for the Resistance until he was captured and executed by the Wehrmacht. Anna is galvanized; René wants her to stand down. And then Anna vanishes, leaving behind a note for René. She has gone to join the partisans, to "fight for Edoardo and for Italy." When René learns that Anna might have become imprisoned in the bishop's villa, he finds that he can no longer fail to act. His subtle sabotage begins with boots. "He chose rusty nails, some so brittle that they crumbled at the first blow. He hammered them in a little crooked, curved inwards as if he were aiming for the heel... the hole in the sole would get wider, like a small surface wound."

In short chapters, Naspini draws readers into René's world: first the tightly confined life of the village cobbler, traveling back and forth between home, workshop, and Anna's apartment, and then to the tighter confines of a cell in the bishop's villa. Botsford's translation is terse and atmospheric, punctuated by lyrical or romantic phrasings: wonder is "like a child unable to describe a treasure they'd chanced upon under a stone." With torture, "you can chew [a man's] bones clean, but you can't touch his soul, which means you will never win."

The Bishop's Villa is absorbing, transporting, beautiful, and grim. Naspini's Author's Note makes clear his drive to lay bare a shameful chapter of history; but with this novel he has also written a love story, for without Anna, "René would never have used the tools of his trade to fight his war." The result is moving and layered. --Julia Kastner, blogger at pagesofjulia

Shelf Talker: In this transporting novel based on real events, a shy cobbler in an Italian village during World War II is gradually drawn into quiet acts in the Resistance.


Deeper Understanding

Forty Years in Book Publishing: 'Lucky to Find Such an Interesting Place'

Our friend Bill Wolfsthal, a book publishing consultant who works with publishers, authors, and technology companies, looks back on his 40 years in book publishing and tells why he loves books and the book business.

Forty years. 2,000 work weeks. 2,000 Mondays, minus long weekends, of course. That's a long time to do anything. I have worked in publishing since September, 1984. That was 40 years ago.

When I took my first publishing job, I did not give one iota of thought to where it could lead. All I knew was that if I wanted to move out of my parents' place, I needed a paycheck, and Nick Lyons Books was offering me a job at $11,000 a year working in the book business. That was $11,000 more than I was making as an intern at Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine!

As my father accurately and condescendingly explained, $11,000 a year really wasn't enough of a salary to move out, so he offered to help pay the rent on my first apartment (250 square feet in the West Village right next to the famed, now-defunct watering hole Tortilla Flats on West 12th Street) with no cable and lots of mice.

I became an editorial assistant. I learned to proofread and copyedit. I made copy after copy of whole manuscripts. I opened the mail. I took out the garbage. I worked on a book on bear attacks, aptly titles Bear Attacks. I worked on a book about family farms and making hay, aptly called Making Hay. I worked on a book about French fishing flies, aptly called, yes, French Fishing Flies. All three are still in print. That's a wonder to me.

After less than a year, my boss, the author, publisher, professor of English, and world-renown fly fisherman Nick Lyons, explained to me that I was not a very good proofreader or copyeditor, so he asked me to spend more of my time on sales and marketing. I called on bookstores and Baker & Taylor. I worked with sales reps. I did mass mailings of book covers. I printed out mailing labels. I packed up advance reading copies. I sent materials to sales reps. I licensed serial rights, set up bookstore displays, wrote press releases. I worked long hours, and got a raise to $13,000 a year and then $17,000 a year and then to $23,000.

What I didn't know at the time was that I was serving an apprenticeship for a career that would last decades and take me from Nick Lyons Books to Sterling Publishing (now Union Square Press) to Carol Publishing Group (now long gone) to the re-named Lyons Press (now part of Globe Pequot/Rowman &Littlefield) to the venerable Harry N. Abrams, Inc. to the start-up Skyhorse Publishing, and to my current role as "book publishing consultant," a title I very much like.

Along the way, I had kind bosses and mean bosses, worked on New York Times bestsellers and books that did not sell 1,000 copies, talked to grateful authors and angry authors, learned Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel; called on indie bookstores and library systems; fly shops and hardware stores; B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, Borders, and Barnes & Noble; Target, Sam's Club and Costco. I read great books that didn't sell well and mediocre books that sold a ton, sold a series of Amish romances and books on whittling and woodcarving. I sold hardcovers, trade paperbacks, mass market paperbacks, library editions, leather-bound signed limited editions, public domain reprints, e-books, and audiobooks.

Book publishing was, and is, a great way to make a living. Books are seemingly an indefinite source of information, amusement, philosophy, advice, and artfulness; and they are a great way to keep a door open or raise a laptop so you can be seen on Zoom. I have so many memories, and the books on my bookshelf are there to remind me of this publisher and that editor, this author and that designer, this publicist and that book signing.

I also have 40 years of memories of the people I worked with: wise editors, skilled production people and cover designers, hardworking sales reps, eager assistants, clever publicists, all of whom gave me advice, criticized me, energized me, improved me, and made me the executive I became and the human I am.

I have regrets. I wish I had taken more long lunches with friends and colleagues. I wish I had pushed for more diversity in hiring. I wish I could have made more authors more money. I wish I didn't have to remainder so many books. I wish I could have been a kinder, better mentor to the people who worked for me. To those I may have wronged, I am sorry. To those who remember me fondly, the feeling is mutual.

And I am not done yet. I still work regularly and excitedly for clients. Some of them are authors. Some of them are publishers. Some of them are tech companies. But I tell them all the same thing. I love books and the book business. Why shouldn't I? For four decades, this business has put bread on my table and books on my shelves.


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