Sunday's With Sullivan: How the Ed Sullivan Show brought Elvis, the Beatles, and Culture to America." by Bernie Ilson (Taylor Trade Publishing)


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Whenever I'm in New York and have any time to spare, I usually make a small personal pilgrimage down to the Strawberry Fields area of Central Park and pause for a moment with my thoughts and memories at the IMAGINE circle dedicated to the memory of John Lennon. - It's always been a special place for me ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a good book day.

My new book "WIKI: Grow Your Own For Fun & Profit" has started shipping from B&N.com even though it isn't officially launched for another two weeks - and they are offering a 28% discount. - You can find it here.Although for some strange reason it's not showing up at Amazon yet, even though they have all the ( Read more... )

As I mentioned yesterday, my biography of the early days of the Fab Four, "BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES," is now available as a Kindle edition. (at a special low, low price of just $1.99)

And here's the proof.


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Yes, at last. Today, September 22nd, is the official release and ship date for STAR TREK: a comics history.

I will be blogging more about the Trek book and associated stuff that didn't make it between the covers in the coming weeks (and months probably).

...and in semi-related book news my biography of the early days of the Fab Four, BEFORE THEY ( Read more... )

I have no connection with this beyond knowing a couple of the artists involved - and the fact that I fully intend to pick up a copy at SDCC.

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More linkage form today's travels around the Web.

• The Guardian Newspaper profiles 50 Writers' Rooms complete with photos.
• SF Signal asks several of today's top SF writers to define Science Fiction. Personally I agree with Chris Roberson - and not just because he's a friend.
• The untold story of how John, Paul, George and Ringo corrupted the youth of ( Read more... )

Friday evening we were lucky enough to host a "house concert" featuring an "unplugged" session by the two lead guitarists from the Beatles tribute group Daytripper.

I managed to capture their performance of Dear Prudence using the video function on Gill's pocket digital camera. The quality is not too bad considering.

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So there I was was sat in the Irish Pub across the road from the conference center last night, enjoying a quiet drink, and doing some background research reading for a upcoming proposal, when a couple of other people from the conference strolled in, and joined me ( Read more... )