Thursday afternoon we were pleased to host visitors from Spain. Maria Dolores Bordes, owner of Libreria Central, a bookstore in Asturias, Spain, and Francisco Javier Melon, a book distributor, also from Spain. They stopped by with friends Susan Novonty and…
Hey, Garrison Keillor…
Yesterday I received a query from a man who has written a family history. Not unusual. His project, however, is a whopping 700 pages, and he would like it to be printed as a hardcover book. As we conversed, I…
BookLove
If you have a fond childhood memory of books/ bookstores, you’ll enjoy the “Quotation of the Day” that I picked up from this morning’s Shelf Awareness (Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade). Worth repeating, reprinting, even committing to memory: As…
New York State History Conference
I spent Friday in Ithaca for the NYSHAC – New York State Historical Association Conference. The three-hour drive out that morning was ambitious, but with over 150 passionate NYS historians all in one place, it was definitely worth it! I…
BEA 2010
Hello from The Troy Book Makers! After 4 successful years, we’ve decided it’s finally time to start blogging. Publishing has taken some pretty radical twists and turns recently, so we’d like this blog to be a place self-publishers can come…