Vincent Zandri's Blog - Posts Tagged "hard-boiled-bestseller"
My Agent is Retiring and So What???!!!
Holy Crap, have things changed in the span of one year or what?
Ok, I'm sitting here on my bed in my apartment in Italy that I rent once a year, same as I've been doing every year for the past three Falls. Like most of Italy, the ancient buildings are the same, the good natured people are the same, the priceless works of art are the same, the old recipes are still melt in you mouth, the Tuscan hills still damp from almost daily rains, the olive groves lush with fruit, the Chinati still blood red.
I'm still sitting at the old wood desk beside the window that opens up onto the cobbled street four stories below, the sound of boots on the stone creating a kind of rat-tat-tat rhythm that combines with the tap of keys and somehow propels my work. Energizes it even.
But what's changed.
I'm a bestseller for one. Not in one Amazon category, but at least five. Five that I've seen anyway. How has that happened for me? Blame it on the publisher. My newest publisher, StoneHouseInk and its new imprint StoneGate Ink, not only welcomed me in via my agent this past spring, but took enough interest to republish my out of print novels. While the first novel they published this past summer, The Remains, has exploded in sales and great reviews, StoneGate was quick to follow up with The Innocent, the re-publication of my critically acclaimed novel, As Catch Can.
For the rest of the groundbreaking story head over to the Vox!!
http://vincentzandri.blogspot.com/201...
The Remains
The Innocent
Ok, I'm sitting here on my bed in my apartment in Italy that I rent once a year, same as I've been doing every year for the past three Falls. Like most of Italy, the ancient buildings are the same, the good natured people are the same, the priceless works of art are the same, the old recipes are still melt in you mouth, the Tuscan hills still damp from almost daily rains, the olive groves lush with fruit, the Chinati still blood red.
I'm still sitting at the old wood desk beside the window that opens up onto the cobbled street four stories below, the sound of boots on the stone creating a kind of rat-tat-tat rhythm that combines with the tap of keys and somehow propels my work. Energizes it even.
But what's changed.
I'm a bestseller for one. Not in one Amazon category, but at least five. Five that I've seen anyway. How has that happened for me? Blame it on the publisher. My newest publisher, StoneHouseInk and its new imprint StoneGate Ink, not only welcomed me in via my agent this past spring, but took enough interest to republish my out of print novels. While the first novel they published this past summer, The Remains, has exploded in sales and great reviews, StoneGate was quick to follow up with The Innocent, the re-publication of my critically acclaimed novel, As Catch Can.
For the rest of the groundbreaking story head over to the Vox!!
http://vincentzandri.blogspot.com/201...
The Remains
The Innocent
Toying with the Future of the Kindle!
A prominent local independent bookstore owner sent me an email just the other day explaining that book sales were undergoing a "temporary" lull over the introduction of a new "toy." She meant of course the Kindle as well as all e-readers and what she was intuiting is that said Kindles, et. al, are just a passing phase.
Is she kidding?
Does anyone really think Kindle and E-Readers are going to go away anytime soon or at all for that matter? Isn't this the same as saying the music industry has decided to give up downloads in order to go back to vinyl or 8-track tapes? Should we give up digital cable television for the old rabbit-eared reception broadcast over VHF waves? Maybe we should all hand in our personal computers for adding machines and slide rules?
For the rest of the story head on over to the Vox:
http://vincentzandri.blogspot.com/201...
The Remains
The Innocent
Is she kidding?
Does anyone really think Kindle and E-Readers are going to go away anytime soon or at all for that matter? Isn't this the same as saying the music industry has decided to give up downloads in order to go back to vinyl or 8-track tapes? Should we give up digital cable television for the old rabbit-eared reception broadcast over VHF waves? Maybe we should all hand in our personal computers for adding machines and slide rules?
For the rest of the story head on over to the Vox:
http://vincentzandri.blogspot.com/201...
The Remains
The Innocent
