In the final sequel of The 40 Year Old Virgin, the one where grandfather, Andy Stitzer meets St. Peter at the pearly gates, it’ll be the doorway into Greg Schauer’s Between Books that greets the eternal fan boy. This bookstore has, over its thirty years in business, become a regional Mecca for sci-fi, horror, fantasy, […]

I attended a social media how-to seminar held by Sheila Clover English at ThrillerFest a couple weeks ago where she recommended using RSS Feeds wherever possible to help automate the listening part of your SM strategy. Great advice, but the ensuing discussion and Q&A made one thing pretty clear; this isn’t an easy thing to […]

Click to sign up for ThrillerFest 2010 Team Baldacci Editor Steve Hoffman, Executive Assistant, Deborah Hocutt and David Baldacci Robert Rotenberg, Douglas Preston and Philly Liar’s Club author, Dennis Tafoya Dennis Tafoya, Carla Bucklery and Joe Moore Randy Sekeres and Backspace founder, Karen Dionne Steve Forman and Doug Preston Penguin Putnam’s Neil Nyren introducing the […]

Click to sign up for ThrillerFest 2010 Author of Prime Time, Hank Ryan Phillippi, leads Alafair Burke, Kate White, David Hosp, Julie Kramer and Jeff Buick in answering the question, “Is the job a requirement?” Back row, L-R: Hank Ryan Phillippi and Jeff Buick. Front row, L-R, Alafair Burke, Kate White, David Hosp and Julie […]

A couple of weeks ago I gave my buddy, Chris Brogan, a copy of Jonathan Maberry’s bio-terrorism thriller, Patient Zero. More about Patient Zero and Jonathan Maberry. More about Personal Effects and J.C. Hutchins. More about World War Z and Max Brooks.

The Philly Liar’s Club hit Clinton Book Shop Saturday afternoon, our next stop on the Philly Liar’s Truth Tour. In spite of the rainy weather, we had a great time, met a bunch of cool, new people and caught up with our friends, Harvey Finkel and Rob Dougherty. Meeting Maryanne McFadden was a nice surprise […]

The Liar’s Club kicked off its Truth Tour at the Doylestown Bookshop yesterday, and while none of us knew quite how it might turn out, I have to admit, it rocked. Our heartfelt thanks go out to to proprietors Pat and Phil Gerney, who graciously opened their place up to the Philly Liar’s Club where […]

I’m featured over at Mike Geffner’s Writing Workshop and Newsletter talking about creative cross promotion for writers. Mike is a friend and an award winning journalist who started his journey in writing over thirty years ago as the sports columnist for the Village Voice. Since then he’s gone on to write for a wide variety […]

WRITERS COFFEEHOUSE THIS SUNDAY hosted by JONATHAN MABERRY This is actually a lie. Jonathan can’t make it this time, but we’ll have a few of the usual suspects in the house to move things along. Sunday, April 26, from noon to 3pm at the SAXBY COFFEE (formerly Bucks County Coffeehouse in Doylestown PA for a […]

Tech Crunch reported today on comScore’s release of global numbers, where they show worldwide visitors to Twitter.com increasing 131 percent in the month of March — from 9.8 million to 19.1 million. Huh? Is that sick or is it still just a fever? Wow. The folks at TechCrunch think Twitter will eclipse 50 Million registered […]