Listen: Deborah Emin Interview by David Wilk on Writer’s Cast

David Wilk interviewed me about the Itinerant Book Show after reading an article about it in Publishing Perspectives. David has been in the book business a long time and has a great understanding of its history and evolution. Thus a great conversation came from our shared enthusiasm for books and readers and writers. Here’s a [...]

Change is a good thing

Change is a good thing. I keep telling myself that all the time. I mean, who knew where we would be a year ago as we launched our Itinerant Book Show? It has been over a year and we are still tinkering with it. As a work in progress, we are still fascinated by all [...]

News for the fall

Hello friends of the Itinerant Book Show, I realize there has been a long silence and it is not because I had nothing to say. Sometimes silence is just because too many competing events interfere with the news of our program. Since I last wrote to you, I have been interviewed by David Wilk and [...]

Our new newsletter

With great excitement we published our first newsletter last week. (And if you didn’t receive it, please use the link below to sign up.) It is good to be a new company. Much of what we do is for the first time. That first time is sometimes if not the best we will ever produce; [...]

How to be angry, annoyed and justified all at once

Today I read with great interest the following article http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/deals/article/43548-hc-acquires-brit-s-debut-for-rumored-seven-figures-.html For those of you writers straddling the fence about e-book publishers, here is yet another reason to be looking to us for help. I mean, they never seem to learn their lessons, these masters of publishing. Why in this day and age after we have [...]

Summer Update

Hello friends and followers of the Itinerant Book Show, Summer time is a weird time for the road show. Having decided from the start not to go on the road then, we have stuck to our guns. Too many people on the roads, too many people away and vacationing. The time to get to them [...]

The Books We Carry

Hello again Friends, Now that the weekend is almost upon us, I thought I would share with you some of the thinking that has been going on regarding the Itinerant Book Show. Weekends I find are a good time for rumination. So, please ponder and if you are inclined to, please send me the thoughts [...]

Back from Cedar Rapids

Back from Cedar Rapids where the whole state seemed to be on steroids from a particularly wet and warm spring. I opened the car door in Cedar Rapids and the smell was not of Quaker Oats but of honeysuckle. What a magical moment that was. The whole town felt like a wonderful perfume factory. The [...]

Home Again

Hello friends and participants in our Itinerant Book Show. You have made us proud. While there was just one sales event on this tour due to the nature of the business we had to get done in Cedar Rapids, the display we put up of the books from the road show were a big incentive [...]

Itinerant Book Show Arrives in Oberlin

On Wednesday, June 2, a wonderful event took place at the home of Bob and Kerry Langon. They graciously opened their home and baked amazing desserts and invited some of the most interesting people to hear the story of the Itinerant Book Show and to buy some of the books we carry. It was a [...]

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