Category Archives: random babble
Preditors and Editors Readers’ Poll
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 … Continue reading
A Great Start for the New Year!
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 … Continue reading
Closed for the weekend!
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 … Continue reading
Best-Laid Plans
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 … Continue reading
Book, books, books
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 … Continue reading
Read an excerpt from Kelland by Paul G. Bens Jr.
An excerpt from Paul G. Bens Jr.’s novel Kelland is now available at Velvet Mafia.
On Reading
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 … Continue reading
Stuart Carroll, 1964-2009
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 … Continue reading
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
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 … Continue reading
And we’re moved!
Not actually unpacked except for the essentials, but we’re moved and able to ship product again.
We’re moving!
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 … Continue reading
Amazonfail
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 … Continue reading
Updates
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 … Continue reading
International Shipping & Book Giveaway
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 … Continue reading
International Shipping
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 … Continue reading
The Life Plan Book Trailer & Queries
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 … Continue reading
Shipping and Valentine’s Day Promotion
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, … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
To anyone who thought that running a small press is all about reading, editing, and creating cool books, I have just one thing to say: I spent more than nine hours today submerged in year-end accounting and tax returns. On … Continue reading
Two Things
If any of our readers were planning to leave a (US) Amazon review for Quid Pro Quo, could you back up the text somewhere and then try to leave it and let us know? We’ve had a report that a … Continue reading