[ IndieBookMan and Friends] Thank ye for the tip!

Here is a nice little article from Slate.com, explaining a bit about the effect of clicking ads on a website. He makes the point that clicking ads are a bit like tipping - if you like what you see on a site, give an ad a click. It puts a penny in the site-owner's pocket, and gives their advertiser a little bit of your eyeball time.

From the piece:

Internet marketer Seth Godin: "Ads are the new on-line tip jar." His method is simple: "If you like what you're reading, click an ad to say thanks."

I have to admit - we get a little excited when we see you've clicked through an ad. It helps us say, "They like us... they really like us!" And if we get enough clicks, I would even be able to buy the team a candy bar to split or something like that!

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[ IndieBookMan and Friends] Post-bookfest quickie

I just wanted to drop a quick post to say we made it through the Baltimore Book Festival, and it was a pretty amazing experience this year. We sold a lot of books, signed up a bunch of new authors, awarded the first ever ABIE award and spread the Indie Publishing Gospel to many many more people.

Super special thanks to Angelo Solera, Cantara Christoper and the ABS authors who came by to volunteer - more on them to come.

Please look for a more detailed post to come soon - I took tons of pictures and will have many more details about how it all went down.

So stay tuned!

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[ IndieBookMan and Friends] Author book signing schedule, Baltimore Book Fest...

One of my favorite things about hosting the AuthorsBookshop booth at the Baltimore Book Festival every year is giving indie authors an opportunity to meet their readers and sign books.

We have a great schedule this year - Saturday is particularly packed. Great books, great authors... come on down and meet them.

Friday, Sept 25th

12:00 Susan Hartfield: The Complete Guide to Energy Conservation for Smarties

3:00 Jon Saboe: Days of Peleg: Days of Paleg

6:00 Angelo Solera: The Journey, el Camino

Saturday, Sept 26th

12:00 PT Custard: Kid Canine - Superhero!, Jules The Lighthouse Dog

1:00 Sherion Jackson: House of Old Joe Mather, Jingle Cat and the Christmas Fish

2:00 David Jones: Two Brothers

3:00 Michael Mathany: Into the Woods

4:00 Jon Saboe: Days of Peleg

5:00 Angelo Solera: The Journey, el Camino

5:30 ABIE Award ceremony!

Sunday, Sept 27th

2:00 Michael Mathany: Into the Woods

3:00 Brad Grochowski: The Secret Weakness of Dragons

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[ IndieBookMan and Friends] Radio Show #2 Podcast

Show#: 2
Aired: 9/23/09
Guest: Angel Solera
Featured book: To Love Mercy, Frank S. Joseph

Here is Show #2. I think I am starting to get the hang of this a little bit.

I really enjoyed the interview with Angelo. We covered a lot of territory, and got some really great insight into his unbelievable past, and the process he went through to get his book written and out to the public.

If you missed episode one, you can catch up on it here.

You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunese here.

Thanks - details on the October 14th show coming soon!

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[ IndieBookMan and Friends] A little milestone...

I just noticed, with this posting we have officially surpassed the total number of posts I made in all of 2008!

Thanks to Cantara, Andy and Marc! You guys are the best.

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[ IndieBookMan and Friends] Radio Show #2: Angelo Solera

Tonight we talk with Angelo Solera, author of The Journey, el Camino and owner of Solera Publishing.

Angelo Solera spent most of his child hood in an orphanage in Salamanca Spain. He immigrated to the United States when he was 17, and did whatever work he could find, just to survive... incliding selling drugs. Selling cocain turned into an addiction.

Having survived that and turned his life around, Angelo became an advocate for health-care for Latinos in Baltimore and a community activist. He served as the Hispanic Community Liaison for the Health Department and Vice-Chair of the Mayor's committee in Hispanic affairs. These posts lead to Angelos eventual bid as the first Latino political candidate to run for Baltimore City Council.

In 2004 after this political campaign failed, he decided to return to Spain where he walked the 400 mile pilgrimage to the City of Santiago of Compostela. This journey - and the nearly unbeleivable journey of his life - inspired him to write and publish the enchanting memoir, El Camino, The Journey.

Our book of the week is: To Love Mercy, by Frank S. Joseph.

If you are listening as you read this, or if you hear the show in the archives or podcast please let us know what you think in a comment below!

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[ IndieBookMan and Friends] Complete the "Bookfest Trifecta" and get a free b...

I know you love book festivals. We usually have to wait months in between them, but not this weekend in the Baltimore/DC area. It's book festival madness!

Three great festivals are going on at once, all within the Baltimore/DC region. Of course, the IndieBookMan crew will be representin' at the AuthorsBookshop booth at The Baltimore Book Festival, so that's the one I know you are gonna want to check out.

But the sheer size and Big Name Factor of the National Book Festival, and the likely indie-pub freindlyness of the SPX are sure to make them both tempting alternatives.

I would love to hear from anyone who makes it to ALL THREE!!!! The first person to let me know, and can confirm it, can have a free signed copy of my book The Secret Weakness of Dragons - and not just a free copy, but a rare "french spine" (lombada francesa, if you must) version that I only give out on special occasions!

The Baltimore Book Festival:

September 25, 26th and 27th

from noon to 8, till 7 on Sunday

In my opinion the best book event in the mid-atlantic... filled with local and regional as well as national writers, publishers and books. Ill be there this year at the AuthorsBookshop booth so stop by and say hello.

Ill also be involved in a panel discussion at the festival, Friday at 4:15 in the Literary Salon. The topic of the panel will be: Will Online Save the Printed Word?

More info at www.baltimorebookfestival.org

The 2009 National Book Festival

organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2009, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and 14th streets from 10 am to 5:30 pm. The festival is free and open to the public.

The list of authors includes Julia Alvarez, Judy Blume, Ken Burns, Paula Deen, W. Ralph Eubanks, John Grisham, Gwen Ifill, John Irving, Walter Mosley, and George Pelecanos, among many, many others. If it weren't for the opportunity to see me at the BBF, you wouldn't want to miss this.

For more info: www.loc.gov/bookfest

The Small Press Expo

Saturday and Sunday, September 26 and 27

Bethesda, MD 20852

Saturday, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Sunday, noon - 6:00 pm

SPX reports that 2008 saw "over 3,000 attendees and exhibitors, along with dozens of printers, distributors, retailers, and other industry professionals," and this year promises to be just as exciting, with "over 400 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, distributors, and each other."

One day, $10.00; both days, $15.00 Collected at the door the day of the show

http://www.spxpo.com/

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