Leslie Lang | Talk Story Press

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.” – Ray Bradbury

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C. S. Lewis

“Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books, even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.” – William Ewart Gladstone

My favorite is the part about the writer who put up a slideshow on his Facebook page. It showed famous people reading his novel.

They call it “a cautionary tale about husband-and-wife authors, or, ‘Love in the Time of Amazon.com.’”

The books were passed, hand-to-hand, for over a mile. It was all completed in a day.

I am a reader. According to my grandmother, when I was young I would set my alarm clock for 30 minutes earlier than I needed to get up for school, just so I could read. I don’t remember that, and as I am also a sleeper I can hardly believe it (though I do).
I do remember that I would stand on my bed at night and rest my book on the windowsill, where I could read by the light of the moon.
Recently, through Facebook, I heard from a person I …

 
This press release just arrived about the Stephen Grogan mystery Vegas Die. It’s the previous novel of an author I did some editing for recently.
The editing I did was for his next book, Captain Cooked, which is, of course!, a culinary mystery set in Hawai‘i.

The $25,000 murder weapon is not at the bottom of the ocean near the ship-wrecked Titanic, nor was it dropped in Lake Mead at Hoover Dam. And you can’t locate the hidden dagger by putting the best-selling mystery, Vegas Die, under your pillow and hoping the answer …

I just received this press release and am very interested to read this book. What an important story, and what a brilliant idea to put all these people’s accounts of it together in one place. Can’t wait to read it.
Full disclosure: I have written a couple books for Watermark Publishing. But I’d have been interested in this book if it was published on the moon:
Watermark Publishing announces the release of Wayfinding through the Storm: Speaking Truth to Power at Kamehameha Schools 1993 – 1999, offering a new perspective on the Bishop …

We went to Hilo Bay Cafe for dinner the other night while my mom was here visiting. That is such a great restaurant – inside it’s really got the ambience happening, in spite of its unlikely location in a strip mall adjacent to Wal-Mart, and the food is always so fresh and good.
While there, I talked with them about getting some recipes for an author I’m working with. Stephen Grogan, a Las Vegas author of a previous book called Vegas Die, is, interestingly enough, writing a culinary/mystery novel set here on the …