Ben Tanzer's Blog
December 1, 2009
And if so inclined, you can learn more here. If not inclined, did we mention there will be Kendra Grant Malone. You feel differently now don't you? We knew you would.
November 30, 2009
CCLaP is rocking the Uncommon Ground this weekend and paying both TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer and TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Sally Weigel their first $100 in royalties for their respective CCLaP publications - Repetition Patterns and Too Young Too Fall Asleep. We suspect this gathering will change lives, and for the better, though please note that if it doesn't, drinks will still be drunk and money will exchange hands, so at a minimum, there will at least be some happiness. 
November 29, 2009
Apparently there is even more to be thankful for here at TBWCL, Inc. headquarters than we realized. We have been thankful for some time to be a contributing writer for the most excellent Wonka Vision magazine, but we are now especially thankful for the kind, thoughtful and humorous review of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine in the new print issue - issue NO. 45 for those of you counting at home. Meanwhile for those of you at home, in a coffee shop, or on the train, please feel...
November 28, 2009
It is Week Forty-Six of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our remarkably self-absorbed effort to post one self-portrait per week for one year. Despite previous protestations that we may not be so thankful here at TBWCYL, Inc., that is not entirely true. We are thankful to still have a job. A cool job. Healthy kids. A lovely wife. Being able to write and publish and sell books. And the new administration. For sure. For now. We are also thankful for your support and we hope you are...
November 27, 2009
November 26, 2009
November 25, 2009
Big props to TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Ken Wohlrob for finishing his first novel No Tears For Old Scratch. Quite nice. Congratulations man. 
November 24, 2009
We are hitting the road and we hope you will be joining us. On December 8th we will be reading with Savannah Schroll Guz and Craig Bernier at the Te Cafe in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, and many, many thanks to Karen Lillis for helping us get this together, and then on the very next night, or if you prefer, December 9th, we will be reading in Morgantown, West Virginia at The Bookshelf. We expect that good times will be had by all. We also expect that these readings could very...
