1.) They never have my book at airport bookstores. That’s understandable now; the book came out almost two years ago. But I never saw it in any airport bookstores in late 2008/early 2009, either. Waaaaaah. 2.) Flying at the end of the month has a drawback: the crossword puzzle in the in-flight magazine is always [...]
Read more →I love U2 fans. I’ve spent the better part of two decades defending U2 fans (whenever needed) to others who think we’re all a bunch of Bono-worshipping nutcases. In the mid-1990s, I almost wrote a book extolling the virtues and awesomeness of U2 fans. U2 fans are, for the most part, Good People. “Cool U2 [...]
Read more →Just another day at the office for the bigtime author here. I mean, don’t we all get our picture on the same web page as Bono, Avril Lavigne, and Kate Winslet? Who am I kidding with the fake conceit? This is awesome!!! That’s the Lifestyle section of Vecernji, a Croatian newspaper that covered the launch [...]
Read more →It’s both incredibly cool and incredibly strange to see my name on a book cover image. My publisher has chosen a tentative image for the cover of U2, A Diary, and that image is now available on Amazon. But, it may not be the actual image on the cover when the book is published later [...]
Read more →It’s strange: Amazon has had my book listed for a few months now, both on the main .com site and on the UK site, too. Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble? Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Doesn’t exist. I wish I knew more about publishing. I know Amazon is the biggest book seller in the world, but why would [...]
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