“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.” ~ Robert Frost

Ye Olde Assorted Nonsense

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Three Fave Books

Recently I was invited to participate in a terrific project by the folks at Shepherd, led by Ben Fox. The whole project is about leading readers to books. Some pundits think the book is dead or dying. Ben sure doesn’t. He’s almost single-handedly trying to revitalize book discovery. And as an author, I sure appreciate it.

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The 2023 TMU Alumni Book List

Adventures in the Radio Trade has been included on the 2023 Toronto Metropolitan University’s Alumni Book List. (TMU having been Ryerson Polytechnical Insitute back when I attended.)

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How to Turn a Book Into a Best Seller

I still have a lot to learn about selling books.

But here’s what I’ve figured out so far.

I believe the following to be true: “To turn a book into a bestseller, first, write a bestseller.”

It all begins with that.

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Erratum

Whenever you write and publish a book, you do your best to get it right. Make it as perfect as possible. It’s really difficult to accomplish that, even with the best of editors, which I had while putting Adventures in the Radio Trade together.

Since the book’s publication I have become aware of a few little glitches. The following errors, typos and omissions were all my fault, introduced after the substantive edit of the book, or simply not the sort of thing an editor could catch.

The beauty of owning your own publishing company, which I do, means that one can fix such glitches with relative ease.

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Adventures in Feedback

One of the scary parts of releasing a new book such as Adventures in the Radio Trade into the wild is you don’t know how it’s going to be received. Whether people will understand what it is you’re trying to do, whether they will like how you’ve done it, whether they’ll even care. Crickets is almost worse than no feedback at all.

So it’s gratifying, and a bit of a relief, when positive feedback does start rolling in.

Here’s an email I received yesterday (reprinted here with permission) from veteran freelance writer/broadcaster John Pellatt, who shares a great story of his own about CBC Radio legend Allan McFee.