OUR SECOND ANNUAL NANOWRIMO ONLINE PITCHAPALOOZA HAS JUST BEGUN! Did you participate in this year’s NaNoWriMo? Then send us your 200 word pitch to nanowrimo@thebookdoctors.com by March 5th! The winner receives an introduction to an agent or publisher appropriate for his/her novel. Please share this post with your other Wrimo friends!!! http://blog.lettersandlight.org/
I’m delighted to announce the publication of my new novella, Confessions of a Sex Maniac. Details below. If you care to pass around, I would be most grateful.
“11 o’clock Monday night I was standing in the nasty skank stink of a body-fluid-scented room of Felipe’s Massage Parlor. There was no Felipe. No one was there for a massage. The wall was stained with what looked like splattered brain, and if you listened hard enough, you could hear the ghosts of ho’s past screaming.
Is she right, or is he wrong? You be the judge.
Very proud that my novella is now available as an e-book. Old-school noir meets the new millennium in this story of obsession, murder and San Francisco sex. A maniac will stop at nothing to get the thing he longs for most, a prize as beautiful as she is deadly, the Snow Leopard. His search takes him deep into the seedy groin of San Francisco’s notorious Polk Gulch, presented with an insider’s eye that can only come from a man who’s been there and done that. That man is David Henry Sterry. This story was a Henry Miller Award Finalist, originally published in the SF Noir Anthology. To buy, go here.
Hello friends, this is me on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition talking about David Beckham, MLS, & making soccer sexy in America http://www.npr.org/2011/12/11/143532077/whats-major-league-soccer-without-beckham
Awesome bookstore, crazy great event!
Cool library, excellent event!
Awesome bookstore, excellent event!
Great bookstore, awesome event!
Hello friends, this is me, David Henry Sterry, on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition talking about David Beckham, MLS, & making soccer sexy in America
Book Doctors Book Report: Milking Goats, Army Dogs, & Rocking New England http://bit.ly/ufotPH
Jan 25, Watchung Bookstore, Montclair NJ, Pitchapalooza + Workshop limited to 25 writers http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=259774004073460
LIMITED TO 25 WRITERS!
We’ve done Pitchapaloozas from Miami to Hollywood, Cape Cod to Santa Cruz. We’ve done workshops from Stanford University to the Texas Book Festival. But we’ve never done them together. Until now. Our workshop gives you the nuts & bolts to launch your book successfully, from platform, to pitch, to publication. Pitchapalooza is American Idol for books (only without Simon). Writers gets one minute—and only one minute, to pitch their books! In the last month, three writers have gotten publishing deals as a result of participating in Pitchapalooza. The workshop lasts an hour. Pitchapalooza ninety minutes.
Water Street Bookstore marks 20 years with Dan Brown signing and PitchaPalooza, while RiverRun ends lease after five years
Keep Austin Weird! We kept seeing that slogan plastered everywhere: on clubs with Tex-Mex music blaring, on the sides of restaurants with Tex-Mex food wafting, on t-shirts sported by ancient shitkickers, dreaded-up post-hippies, and UT hook-’em-horns, bevo loving syudents. And it is weird. In the best way. Where else could you be signing books across from Lisa Loeb, & the dude who wrote Go the F*ck to Sleep. We ate amazing “Interior Mexican” tacos, we swam in a Texas sized fresh water pool, we saw protesters fighting the death penalty. The festival itself, thanks to Clay Davis and his legion of tireless helpers, is one of the best in the country, nee the world. We heard awesome pitches by a 13 year old girl, a trashy thriller writer, a Pynchon disciple, a cat gut myth buster, an Austin boxing noirist, & our winner, special education teacher Aimee Teague, whose middle grade novel, Devin and His Shape-Shifting Sister, rocked the house hard. Olive, our 4 year old, proclaimed that she loved Austin even more than Hollywood. And she loves Hollywood.
How I Got My Memoir Published: The Book Doctors interview Sam Benjamin on Huffington Post http://bit.ly/nHbEff
American soldiers & Army dogs. Bad bads. Patriots on Harleys. Richmond writers. Litquake lunatics. And a 4 year old girl named Olive http://bit.ly/oTvEct
This was one of the most fun interviews I’ve ever done, thanks to Julie Green.
This is from a reading I did at Litquake, in Vesuvio’s, the historic North Beach literary watering hole.
2 Pitchapaloozas in 24 hours. 3,000 miles apart. They said it couldn’t be done. They were wrong.
It all started on a beautiful Virginia Saturday afternoon at the James River Writers Conference, in the shockingly excellent city of Richmond. 
JRWC came into our lives as the result of brutal failure. Two years ago I set up a DC area mini-tour for an infamous book I put together. My girl Shawna Kenney (whose memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix–which is about when she was a teenage dominatrix) was just optioned by Vince Vaughn) booked us into Poets & Busboys in Washington (packed to the rafters!), Atomic Books in Baltimore (filled to the gills!), and Chop Suey in Richmond. When Shawna and I walked into Chop Suey, there were exactly 0 customers in the store. There were
Calling Lake Placid authors: come pitch your book to the Book Doctors this Saturday @ The Bookstore Plus http://www.thebookstoreplus.com/event/pitchapalooza
Vermont writers: come pitch your books to the Book Doctors this Sunday @ Flying Pig Bookstore http://site.booksite.com/7087/events/?&list=EVC1&group=current&preview=1
Genn Albin’s Story of How She Got a Six-Figure, 3-Book Deal After Winning Pitchapalooza: Part 2
Our fabulous Kansas City Pitchapalooza winner, Genn Albin give us part 2 of 4 of her journey to a six-figure deal for a YA dystopian fantasy novel, Crewel:
http://bit.ly/qNZbkb
After suffering torturous abuse, inmates enter third week of hunger strike. It’s our obligation as Americans to speak out and let our government know we won’t stand for this.
