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Toggle Commented 3 hours ago on Booksmitten: A Personal History with the Business. at Across the Great Divide
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Hal, the question is, did Julie put the book in your hands without you having to ask for it by title? Some booksellers have that magical power.
Toggle Commented 4 hours ago on Booksmitten: A Personal History with the Business. at Across the Great Divide
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Booksmitten: A personal history with the business
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Last week I got the great news Monument Road has been selected by independent booksellers as one of ten adult fiction titles for the American Booksellers Association's fall "Celebrate Debut Authors With Indies" promotion. That means traveling to New York City for the BookExpo America and hobnobbing, however briefly, with... Continue reading
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Booksmitten: A Personal History with the Business.
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Last week I got the great news Monument Road has been selected by independent booksellers as one of ten adult fiction titles for the American Booksellers Association's fall "Celebrate Debut Authors With Indies" promotion. That means traveling to New York... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at Across the Great Divide
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Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Read Me...
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I recognized the expression immediately because I'm certain something of the sort has passed over my own face. The author adopting an expression of interest in someone else's writing. It's the look you adopt when someone who's heard you're a... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Indy Booksellers pick Monument Road
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Monument Road has been receiving some great advance praise from authors and booksellers. Especially gratifying—it's been selected as one of 10 adult fiction titles in the American Booksellers Association’s Celebrate Debut Authors with Indies fall promotion. In announcing the selections, the chair of the adult debut authors committee, Betsy Burton... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at Charlie Quimby
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Self-Help? Well, sort of...
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You can now pre-order Monument Road from various online booksellers (see the sidebar for sellers), though the novel won't be published until November. It's gratifying to see things start to fall into place as gallies are being prepared and the publisher is meeting with the independent sales reps (Consortium out... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at Charlie Quimby
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World Book Night in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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I chose Michael Perry's Population: 485 as the title I'd distribute for World Book Night*. I thought his tales of small town life, quirky characters and sense of humor would appeal to the potential readers I approached today at the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Tracking Down My Cowboy Legacy Takes a Strange Turn.
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My grandfather died more or less as expected. He had been half gone already and the liver disease put a period to a long story with the bottle. My father made the trip alone from Colorado down to the ranch,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Since it's not a rhetorical question, please tell me who you mean by "people who say and think things like that." Distinguish between vagrants and homeless? I'll respond in a future post.
Toggle Commented Apr 6, 2013 on Shelter Report: Winter Angel. at Across the Great Divide
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Shelter Report: Winter Angel.
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If you're downtown much, you've seen the couple I'll call Jorge and Vanessa. He moves slowly, pushing a sort of heavy duty luggage cart loaded with clothing and miscellaneous possessions. His impassive expression can look like a dangerous glare because... Continue reading
Posted Apr 5, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Shelter Report: The Old Sex Offender Gets a New Start, Sort of.
The man I'll call Martin walks around the corner and back before coming in the front door of the Day Center. That's a common approach by first-time visitors since the building has no sign to identify us—just a partially glassed-in... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Newsblind: A sample from MONUMENT ROAD
A short chapter from my forthcoming novel, MONUMENT ROAD. Newsblind Before turning south across the bridge to the Redlands, the parkway snakes between the river and a wasteland of rubble bill-boarded with promises of professional spa installation, exceptional dental care... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Shelter Report: Signs of Spring.
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The most reliable sign of spring in the Day Center—aside from the lack of bulky coats, knit hats and gloves—is the increased number of times the hair clippers are checked out. The front vestibule has a small mirror mounted on... Continue reading
Posted Mar 21, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Shelter Report: Music, Magic and Might've Beens.
Over the last several weeks, travel and working on developmental edits for Monument Road have kept me from posting, but not from making it down to the Day Center. As usual, there's more than enough going on. We've had to... Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Doing revisions
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Who is this guy? On advice of my editor, I've been making some revisions to a couple places in the novel. One is a chapter near the end where two characters discover they have a tragedy in common. Their meeting helps resolve a subplot, and also sets the stage for... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2013 at Charlie Quimby
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Shelter Report: State of the Union.
Yesterday one of the regulars at the Day Center asked me what I thought of President Obama's State of the Union address. I find it best to veil my politics there and do more listening than talking, so I responded... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Advance praise for Monument Road
Charlie Quimby gets inside his character’s heads better than any writer I’ve come across in a long time. The voices in this book ring so true to life you can feel their pain, their laughter, and their longing. – Aaron Curtis, Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL Monument Road, by... Continue reading
Posted Feb 13, 2013 at Charlie Quimby
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Shelter Report: Homelessness Can Be a Lot of Responsibility.
Homelessness can be a lot of responsibility. I had to laugh when he said it. After all, Special K had just told me how the majority of people aren't real, then launched into a tale about secret sewage pipes crossing... Continue reading
Posted Feb 7, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Free Christmas Books While They Last.
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Who knew... that James Patterson, John Grisham, Anne Perry and Mary Higgins Clark have all done Christmas books? That romance writer Debbie Macomber (New York Times Bestselling Author!) is a Christmas juggernaut. A Mike Huckabee holiday offering, sure. But Glenn... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Shelter Report: Family Bonds Stretched Beyond Mending.
Late in the morning an elderly woman with clear blue eyes and nun-cropped white hair came to the intake window at the day center. She didn't have the look of one of our homeless clients, and I correctly surmised that... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Women attempt suicide 3 times as often as men, yet men are nearly 4 times more likely to die by suicide than women. Men's greater access to (male gun ownership is estimated at 3 to 1) and use of firearms accounts for much of the difference.
Toggle Commented Jan 29, 2013 on Suicide Reveals Challenges of Managing Guns and Mental Health. at Across the Great Divide
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"Natural Climate Change" is Cold Comfort.
Memory is unreliable and historical records provide an incomplete picture, so it's possible the valley I grew up in was not all that warmer than the one I walked through today. I know I didn't own a proper winter coat... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Suicide Reveals Challenges of Managing Guns and Mental Health.
This post first appeared as "Mental illness, easy gun access can be a toxic combination" in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. I still remember that windy, solitary run west of town early one April morning in 1984. Folded newspapers waited... Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2013 at Across the Great Divide
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Good perspective. Heller's positioned as a literary novelist and his premise and presentation aren't particularly sci-fi, but the novel definitely conforms to your observations. In his defense, he clearly favors the learning to live together proposition, but the novel gets to have it both ways. Without the fireworks, I doubt there'd be a movie in the works.
Toggle Commented Jan 23, 2013 on The Dog Stars: Post-apocalyptic Hope or Warning for Today? at Across the Great Divide
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