Wm. Stage's Blog, page 2
October 24, 2015
FINALLY
At long last I can talk about my novel without saying "my forthcoming novel". Creatures On Display is out now and slowing working its way onto bookshelves in bookstores and domiciles. I am not shy in the self-promotion department, and so I spend my days now going around to bookstores and introducing my latest creation, encouraging orders. With Barnes & Noble you have to be in their system and that is in process, maybe another couple weeks, but the independent stores can order w/o all that rigamaroll. Of course there's always the old standby, Amazon. Creatures and its author will be featured in 2 periodicals - the Columbia [MO] Tribune this Sunday 10-25-15 and the December, 2015 issue of St. Louis Magazine; I have 8 signings / readings lined up, a mix of bookstores, libraries, bars, and coffeehouses. I'm really trying with this one, because I so believe in it.
It's a fairly large paperback, almost 6 by 9, 360 pages, and so one selling point, foolish as it sounds, is to tell people, "Hey, just in terms of heft, you're really getting your moneys' worth!" At least I think that's funny. Another quirky thing is color; I'm very keen on colors. Of my previous books there was a blue cover, a maroon cover, a grayish-colored cover, and now I can say I have a novel with a yellow cover. Yellow is a rather hopeful color, don't you think? That's it for now. Cheers, Wm.
Creatures On Display
It's a fairly large paperback, almost 6 by 9, 360 pages, and so one selling point, foolish as it sounds, is to tell people, "Hey, just in terms of heft, you're really getting your moneys' worth!" At least I think that's funny. Another quirky thing is color; I'm very keen on colors. Of my previous books there was a blue cover, a maroon cover, a grayish-colored cover, and now I can say I have a novel with a yellow cover. Yellow is a rather hopeful color, don't you think? That's it for now. Cheers, Wm.
Creatures On Display
October 4, 2015
Forthcoming Novel
My 1st blog post ever. I like the idea of being among a community of avid readers. I have a new book coming out in just 1 month. Creatures On Display is my 11th book and first full-length novel. It's also the first book I've ever done while NOT WRITING for a newspaper, and, believe me, that was a luxury. I was a journalist / columnist here in St. Louis for 33 years, from 1980 to 2013, and one thing I learned to like was deadlines. I gave myself a deadline of 1 year to write this novel, and I did just that. Of course, I spent another 5 months fine-tuning it, but the story had been completed to my satisfaction in a year. Sometimes people ask me to help them write a book or even write the whole thing for them. I have to think they really have no idea what they're asking, because writing a book takes an incredible amount of self-discipline over a prolonged period; I'll do that for myself and the chosen task, however daunting, but I can't muster the willpower to write a book for someone else - even if they were to pay me handsomely, I don't think I could. Anyway, I just wanted to introduce myself, and throw out a few lines about my work. Cheers, Wm. StageCreatures On DisplayNot Waving, Drowning: Stories Mound City ChroniclesFading Ads of St. LouisFool for LifePainted Ad: A Postcard Book of Vintage Brick Wall SignsThe Practical Guide To Process Serving 3rd Edition
