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My book publishing blog, with murder mysteries woven through it.
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Jess Brallier is th author of nearly 40 titles for both adults and children, Brallier writes about stuff like hot dogs, Albert Einstein, Portuguese bats, pessimists, and rogue alphabet letters.
A native of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, Jess is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh (B.A.) and Boston University (M.S.). He and his wife, Sally Chabert, reside in West Hollywood, CA. Their two grown children are the greatest.
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102. So much for the new blog idea
Yesterday, depressed by the current state of book publishing, I promised to start a blog about the hardwood floor business. But damn it! There’s already a terrific hardwood flooring blog out there. This Dave guy absolutely nails (get it?) the flooring business. With great guidance like, “Keep your dog’s nails trimmed” and “Seasonal floor squeaking…
71. The fatal manuscript
I closed the window and thought about how right there, on that windowsill, Randy made the final decision of his life. In the room’s center was a large, worn reclining chair, with room on its seat for a body and a manuscript, side by side. Obviously, this was where Randy did his reading. Suddenly it…
18. Let’s try this again — Robert Parker, his dog Pearl, Freeman, and me
Weird thing is that what I was going to blog about yesterday, before learning that Freeman died, is maybe an even better thing to write about now that Freeman’s died. Being fans of Robert Parker’s Spenser books, Freeman and I got a special kick out of Spenser’s dog, Pearl. And smiled that Parker’s own dogs…
47. Blue Highways, a wonderfully unexpected bestseller
In 1982, at Little Brown, we published Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon. I loved everything about that book. Its clean, tight, reflective, nearly poetic writing. Its clever title (travel the blue lines on a map, not the heartless interstates). And the author’s name. Everybody on the publishing team felt likewise. It was our passion…
16. Crisis Management – Round Two
Old buddy/roommate Rich was in New York City to see one of his clients. We had drinks. He said he’d like to do a revised edition of his crisis management book. “Social media changed anything. I gotta update it.” I thought it was a good idea. I reminded him that one, I was no longer…
88. The police
The police told me to show up today, to make a statement about the killings of Tom and Orlando. I went over to the police station on West 20th. Detective Josephine Rocco took my statement. She started to explain why she had to, “Somebody wrote these two books—” “Manuscripts,” I corrected her, “they’re not books…