December 2007
11 posts
Is Scott Pack the best thing to happen to Indie... →
Eoin Purcell Probably* Just reading a rather nice review of 2007 from the lovely people at Fidra Books who I have been admiring from afar for some time (Blog is here and main publishing page here): At no point did I say that I wanted us to buy a shop and open a bookshop or start developing a trade list but those are by far the biggest developments in our business. Excellent progress I...
Dec 28th
Bhutto slain: HarperCollins to realease her book... →
Eoin Purcell The assassination doesn’t stop commerce it seems: BOOK publisher HarperCollins, which just received the manuscript for Benazir Bhutto’s upcoming book, is now moving quickly to get it on the shelves by February following yesterday’s assassination of the former Pakistani prime minister. Source: The New York Post
Dec 28th
A Christmas Baking Slideshow →
Long sentences alert! In what is rapidly becoming a tradition Blathnaid and I bake a mountain of mince pies from scratch (including making our very own mince meat). This year we threw in some gingerbread men (and women, not to mention children), sugar cookies, macaroons, pecan fingers and in spite of my bad handling of the cooking of them, some rather fabulous florentines. This year also took...
Dec 26th
A Very, Very, Merry Christmas! →
Eoin Purcell The best of the season to all. I’ll kick back into gear in the new year. Eoin
Dec 24th
Wordpress are livening up their Feeds! →
Cool! This ought to be fun!
Dec 18th
Anne Enright, the Booker and booksales revisited →
Eoin Purcell I wrote a little while ago about how well Anne Enright is selling here And how bad here reception was in the UK (She gets dissed again here). I though, it being the season of good cheer, that I’d update again and the result is stunning. Enright has sold some 34,000 books and generated over €500,000 in sales. But what does that mean? Well it means this: if The Gathering sells...
Dec 18th
The Story of Stuff →
Dec 17th
Bolivian Breakdown →
Read this over on Marginal Revolution! Seems a dangerous state of affairs! EOIN
Dec 16th
Jo Burger →
Dec 16th
Fujiya & Miyagi →
Dec 16th
What a day!
Made enough pastry for 120 mince pies, had an amazing lunch @ Jo Burger And then went to hear Fujiya Miyagi! Tired now and have meetings tomorow! Gotta Sleep! Eoin
Dec 16th