In 1959, Ed Chevrette was a sixteen-year-old student pilot, and, as he says in his book, Wings of Fortune, it was the greatest experience of his life. Ed went from flying a fabric-covered Cub to becoming a corporate Learjet pilot.…
“Preparing to Print” Presentations during February
Troy Book Makers has planned more free presentations on “Preparing to Print” during February and the coming months. On Saturdays at 11am, we’ll host a one-hour talk in our new Troy offices. Even months (including February), on the last Tuesday,…
Authors Are Their Own Small Business, Truly
“JD Salinger wrote Catcher in the Rye and then disappeared for fifty years. Well, the world doesn’t work that way anymore,” Melissa astutely pointed out at her eBook info session this afternoon. Authors can’t afford to write a book and…
Podcast Friday: A Woman, a Necklace, and a Novel
Pat Carley, a life-long resident of Troy with a fascinating Hungarian heritage, has written a short novel, My Grandmother’s Necklace. In it, she weaves together imagined and factual details of her grandmother’s life in Europe before emigrating to the United…
Laugh or Cry?
So, this morning I followed a link from Shelf Awareness to a site that shows (yet another) way to use old books. Although I’m kinda tired of these posts (we are printers, after all!), I recommend having a watch as…
Two Free Workshops at The Troy Book Makers
Next Friday, 1/28, during Troy Night Out, Troy Book Makers will offer two free workshops: 1 – Preparing for Print, and 2 – Converting to E-book. “Preparing for Print” will explain some of the language of printing and publishing, discuss…
Podcast Friday: Marion Roach Smith
Marion has been teaching a memoir-writing class at the Arts Center of the Capital Region for over a decade. Her recent book, Writing What You Know: Realia, has been picked up by one of the “big six” publishers. (Yeah!) In…
Making a Book, 1940s Style
A friend at SUNY Press sent me these links today, one from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives and one from the AFL-CIO. They’re about book printing and binding. Wow! Look at the machines (who designed and manufactured those!?), and all the people…
Podcast Friday: Meet the Chupka’s
Imagine a mother, father, and daughter writing a book together. Now imagine, a mother, father, and daughter writing a book together about their family’s drug and alcohol addiction problems. In It Went without Saying, Joyce (mom), John (dad), and Jamie…
Wow! A Portable Print Shop
Green Chair Press has provided the information for my blog post today. (Thank you!) A young woman in Portland, Oregon, who loves the art of printing, is planning to buy an old bread truck and refurbish it with…everything she needs…