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Entries from July 2008

The World of Net Receipts

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the things my Dad told me to blog about when we were happily sitting next to each other on my mother’s couch last weekend, both working on Casperian business on separate laptops, was how net receipts are calculated.
That’s not quite as easy as it sounds, because there are a lot of variables […]

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Author Appearance

July 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Paul Elwork is going to make a guest appearance on The Odd Mind, a show on Blog Talk Radio on Tuesday, July 29th, at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.

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Author Events

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

This just in: William Walsh will be reading at Timothy Gager’s Dire Literary Series at The Out of the Blue Art Gallery, 106 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA, on August 1, 2008. Featured readers begin at 9PM; open mic reading program starts at 8PM. Full details are here.
And don’t forget William’s reading at Ada Books […]

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Making Books

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

There are some interesting publishing statistics over at Para Publishing for anyone interested.
But that’s not really what I want to post about today. I want to post about lead time.
My daytime job involves lead times of about one to two years for the larger components and I’m currently living in roundabout 2010-2012 as far as […]

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This and That

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

There’s a rather excellent critical essay about Curtis Smith’s Sound + Noise, which is being released in September, at Prick of the Spindle.
In other news, Friday’s e-mail from Dad (who’s taken over doing a lot of the link gathering and other web-based stuff): “In other news, slack US paperback sales are attributed to a […]

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