Tag Archives: publishing

Who’s greedy?

By Joel Thurtell Some independent bookstores are — gasp!! — charging admission to book signings. What nerve! Book signings are cultural events. Book signings give regular people a chance to mix with a famous or maybe not-so-famous author, hear the … Continue reading

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Killing the monster

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are … Continue reading

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Plug Nickel and my little book machine

By Joel Thurtell Plug Nickel is back. In fact, the boat named “Plug Nickel” never went away. But since June 2005, my columns about my adventures with the wooden Lightning sailboat hull that eventually came to be christened “Plug Nickel” … Continue reading

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Hardalee Press

By Joel Thurtell People were wondering what I was doing all summer. Notes came in from readers chiding me for letting weeks go by without a post. Living in a place with no phone or Internet can make it hard … Continue reading

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