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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Eleven days before the next Itinerant Book Show

Deborah Emin has just had an article published online for Publishing Perspectives about Sullivan Street Press’ Itinerant Book Show. Our next road trip begins in eleven days. If you had told me two years ago that people outside of New York City would be interested in hearing stories about how the publishing industry is changing [...]

Itinernant Book Show Completes it’s April Tour

It is now official. We will no longer be making anymore one-night stands in the towns we have staked out as Itinerant Book Show towns. We plan to take a stake in each of these towns and try to find the people to carry the message for us along with the books, thus creating new [...]

Before the show in Cedar Rapids

Hello all, These reports from the road are intended as a way to pass along some of the most current information about what the Itinerant Book Show is up to and what has been happening along the road. Tonight’s show is the first we are doing in Cedar Rapids. But it will not be the [...]

The good news

Hello all again, It was an odd bit of no show on the part of the owner of the Ground Level Coffee House in Toledo, and then actually no opportunity to find out why when we had sent him all the promotional material we send to others and which he received, none of it appeared [...]

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