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Monthly Archives: March 2012

April Poetrio at Malaprop's

April Poetrio at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe

March 29, 2012by coffeehousejunkie Leave a comment

National Poetry Month begins at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe with Poetrio this Sunday at 3:00 p.m. This month’s featured poets include Ed Madden, Ray McManus and Anne Harding Woodworth. Here’s an abridged version of the poets […]

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Asheville, poetry

Three ways self-published authors fail

March 27, 2012by coffeehousejunkie 2 Comments

“Only idiots and the self-deluded think that being able to self-publish qualifies them to write,” concludes one person commenting on Two reasons why not to self-publish your book. It’s true. Not every […]

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publishing
Look Up Asheville II

Book Launch for Look Up Asheville Collection II

March 22, 2012by coffeehousejunkie Leave a comment

Tonight at 6:30 p.m. the Look Up Asheville II book launch begins at the Battery Park Champagne Bar/Book Exchange. Join the festivities for the launch of Look Up Asheville II featuring photography by Michael […]

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Asheville, books

Poetry at the Altamont

March 19, 2012by coffeehousejunkie Leave a comment

Tonight from 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., Poetry at the Altamont continues with this month’s featured poet, Laura Hope-Gill. It’s been awhile since I visited the The Altamont Theatre. I believe it […]

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Asheville, poetry

March 18, 2012by coffeehousejunkie Leave a comment

retro-dolls: This looks perfect (Source: via http://shopruche.blogspot.com/)

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books, photography

Quote

March 16, 2012by coffeehousejunkie Leave a comment

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. —Jim Harrison, from his essay “Poetry as Survival” in Just Before […]

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field notes

Two reasons why not to self-publish your book

March 15, 2012by coffeehousejunkie 2 Comments

Confession: I am an advocate of self-publishing. I have been for years. But my views are changing on the matter due to the glut of poorly written self-published books being […]

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books, publishing

Quote

March 14, 2012by coffeehousejunkie Leave a comment

My exasperation about the cowardly evasiveness of our mainstream press drives me to think that if people in general knew more about history they’d be more likely to demand more […]

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field notes

Judging a book by its cover

March 14, 2012by coffeehousejunkie 2 Comments

For me, every book cover I design begins with pencil sketches that eventually lead to ink drawings. Actually, I suppose it begins prior to that. The author receives a pre-publication questionnaire […]

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books, graphic design, publishing

March 14, 2012by coffeehousejunkie Leave a comment

“I wrote this story for you…” via myheadandmyhearttoday (Source: http://bookangles.tumblr.com)

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