Casperian Books Blog

Gary Clites and Paul Bens have both asked us to donate their portion of the receipts for any books sold through our website this week to Doctors Without Borders as well. Thank you to both of them!

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From now until Sunday, January 24th, 2010, (or until we run out of local inventory), Casperian Books will donate its portion of the proceeds from any book sales through this website to Doctors Without Borders.

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REMINDER: Voting in the Preditors and Editors Readers’ Poll is open until Thursday! Cast your vote for your favorite Casperian Books title! The index to the voting pages can be found here. After you vote on the website, Preditors and Editors will send you an e-mail with a link. You must click on the […]

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Well, now that the holidays are over, it’s time to focus on books again. Technically, we didn’t stop working over the holidays, of course, but we were taking it just a little bit easy, right until January 1st, when everybody got to help in the 12-hour year-end-close marathon with extra hair-pulling caused by the fact […]

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I’m getting married Saturday, and everyone who is involved with Casperian Books and local will be heading up to Tahoe for the wedding sometime tomorrow, so between about 10 a.m. Friday, October 2nd, and Monday morning, October 5th, there will be no one here to process orders or quote international orders.
This is pretty much the […]

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Sometime between the time I left for the gym Saturday morning at 8:00 and returned from the Farmer’s Market at 11:00, our Internet connection went down–and stayed down until I worked one hour of hi-tech magic around 10:30 p.m. because Casper was using that very special look on me that I always thought only […]

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Getting back to reading briefly, the New York Times is doing a poll to see what people are reading on the subway. The results are here and the accompanying article is here. Or you could even take the poll (if you ride the subway in New York).
An while we’re on the subject, a couple of […]

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An excerpt from Paul G. Bens Jr.’s novel Kelland is now available at Velvet Mafia.

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A couple of years ago on a flight from Toronto to London, I was sitting next to an acquisitions editor for a very large publisher, who struck up a conversation with me over the book I was reading at the time, The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis, which she herself had read some […]

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On June 14th, my friend and longtime collaborator and host for various websites Stuart Carroll very unexpectedly passed away.
I had just spent a lot of time on the phone with Stuart as we moved websites, including this one, to better, newer servers, and then spent most of last week moving websites to yet another new […]

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Apparently I forgot to put the large, bold disclaimer that the shopping cart can only be used for domestic and Canadian orders on the product page for Control and somehow in all the moving hullabaloo just ended up thinking people weren’t reading instructions. Oops?
On the bright side, I’m never, ever going to forget that […]

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Not actually unpacked except for the essentials, but we’re moved and able to ship product again.

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Not on the web, but physically. I’m sitting here in the completely packed up office with the keyboard balanced on my lap because the old desk already went to Goodwill, and I’m about to shut down the computer and pack that up as well for the move tomorrow. So in essence, we’re going to be […]

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Regarding the whole Amazon Rank fail thing (full explanation for those who haven’t heard here), I really only have two things to say:
1) We’d love to sell to all our customers direct
2) When that doesn’t seem practical to our customers, we’d much rather they buy from Barnes and Noble. A full list of our titles […]

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Sybil Baker starts a blog tour in support of The Life Plan today. You can view the full schedule of events here.
And then, there was this, which is just hilarious: US Post Office hard hit by the recession–or are fewer people mailing things because they are making it damn near impossible to send anything at […]

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Yeah, I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record here, but I did have a meeting with the controller of my local post office last week. Summary (and this is direct quote): “Well, an envelope with a (as in one) book in it will probably go through if you don’t secure it with […]

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Well, I’ve had some interesting conversations with the USPS’ consumer advocate this past week, and let’s just say that they are not amused about losing quite a nice chunk of revenue from international and priority mail shipments. Of course, they’re also having trouble getting the manager of our local post office to call them back…
In […]

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There’s a great little trailer for Sybil Baker’s The Life Plan on YouTube now. Check it out!
The other thing I’m a bit puzzled by is that over the past few weeks, we’ve requested manuscript samples from three different authors who’ve queried us–all of which have failed to materialize. I know the e-mail is working (we’re […]

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The US Postal Service very sneakily raised its rates for international priority mail and domestic priority mail shipments, so we have adjusted our pricing for those services accordingly. Rates for media mail shipments in the United States remain the same, at least for the time being (according to the USPS, we can expect a rate […]

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