Kicking Off The (Sporadic) FUTUREPROOF Book Tour

Your Fave Author IN THE FLESH
The worst kept secret for FUTUREPROOF fans is now officially announced: The first date of what will hopefully turn into a year-long book tour is just around the corner. On Saturday, June 10th, from 3-5 p.m., I will be reading and signing FUTUREPROOF at the Berea College Book Store in [...]

Flaming Lips, Secret Code, Marathon Chat

The Boy In the Bubble

Sunday night Ali and I had a great, ten-hour(!) reprieve from our wonderful children, which allowed to run downtown and catch a FREE day-long concert at Centennial Olympic Park. It was hot as all hell in HOTlanta that day, my friends, and we were armed for bear. My loving wife dutifully [...]

Check Out My Friend H.B.’s Book

Just finished reading Henry Baum’s book NORTH OF SUNSET, a uniquely crafted character study in the style of Elmore Leonard mixed with the social satire of Chuck Palahniuk. I hate summarizing plot and that kind of shit, because personally I like coming in to a book totally cold. But I will say that it’s written [...]

FUTUREPROOF: A Short History

I did something incredibly liberating yesterday. I fired my agent. It wasn’t that she wasn’t a good agent or anything like that. She was actually very nice and was 100% behind FUTUREPROOF. But when you have a book that is self-published such as FUTUREPROOF is, you are put in a very unique position in that, [...]

MAY 24th Visiting Author Chat Scheduled: Sarabeth Purcell

author of THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG and LOVE IS THE DRUGchatting LIVE at www.futureproofbook.com on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 @ 9 p.m. EST

Check out her full profile and make sure you mark your calendars or blackberrys or whatever you mark to remind yourself of things, and come chat.

 

FP Chosen

It’s a great honor for me to announce that FUTUREPROOF has been chosen as a selection of the (month? week?) on the famous POD-dy Mouth blog (www.girlondemand.blogspot.com). For those who haven’t heard about girl on demand, she is a published writer (her second novel was just published this year with Penguin) who decided out of the [...]

A Clarification: Allow Me To Elaborate

Since the posting yesterday, where I took publishers to task for giving corporate writing firms money that would be much better served going to actual writers with good books to promote, some people have suggested that I might just be shooting myself in the foot by making such a public pronouncement of disdain regarding these [...]