It’s this Saturday!

9 am to 4 pm at Old Alabama Town in Montgomery, AL. There’s a big long list of authors this year and a few other exhibits. Should be good fun. We’ll see you there!

Sorry about the lag in posting. We’re having to do some site restructuring. We’re still here and will be back under full steam as soon as we can.

In the meantime you could pick up a copy of the new 332-page book on the history of dear old Troy (don’t-call-me-State) University. The Birmingham News wrote a little blurb on it this weekend, though I’m sure it did little to whet anyone’s appetite.

If you’re in the ‘ham this weekend you’ll want to swing by the Vestavia Hills library. Their BIG annual book sale kicks off this afternoon at 5pm and runs through Tuesday. The library opens at 9am on Saturday and 1pm on Sunday.
I’m thinking about taking elbow pads and a helmet, in case it’s anything like last year’s sale. Some people are CRAZY about $1 books and I always seem to be in their way!

Birmingham boasts a busy book buying weekend the first of December.

On Decemeber 1st, Jimmy Carter will be in the ‘Ham. He’s making the rounds promoting his new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

You can only get yours signed if you have a ticket. Tickets can be bought at the Alabama Booksmith’s site or at the store. You buy one book, you get one line ticket. Makes sense.

Also, on December 1st and carrying over to the 2nd…

The Birmingham Public Library is hosting an Authors Expo. At last count, nearly 40 area authors have plans to be there, selling and signing. That event kicks off at 10 a.m. on December 1st.

Whew! What a weekend!

Starting this morning, Google Books is offering downloads of “entire works”, for free. For the past two years Google has been working with university liabraries from California, Michigan, England and a few in between. They have digitized anything and everything. Today, Google posted all of their copies of “public domain” books.

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Cullen’s first author event was with Joshilyn Jackson signing Between, Georgia, back in July. This was about three weeks before Jackson was ARRESTED!!!

Did we introduce our baby boy to a criminal mastermind? Was Jackson really a raving madperson posing as a sunday school teaching soccer mom that writes books on the side to help ends meet?
Nope. Jackson’s crime was that her “papers were not in order”.

Sounds like something from a Hogan’s Heroes episode doesn’t it?

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The JCLC now offers audio book downloads! All files download as MP3’s that you can put on your player or burn to cd (though there seems to be no Mac or iPod love). The Hoover Library has offered this for a while, but you had to live in Hoover to be allowed to use it.

I’m glad the JCLC is looking out for those of us rocking and rocking and rocking at night, trying to get a little boy to lie down. With a pair of headphones, I don’t mind sitting there for the gazillion hours it takes for him to decide he’s sleepy.

Friends of Homewood Library are having a huge used booksale (pdf) next weekend. They say 8,000 books are on hand and have never been in the store before. Word on the street is that prices will start at a quarter.

Festivities start Friday night, August 18th. The doors are also open Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

A construction worker in Ireland found a 1,200 year old vellum copy of the Book of Psalms. A neat find indeed. But my favorite find is this quote from a museum in Ireland “[This book is] …the greatest find ever from a European bog.” Let’s hear it for those European bogs!