Jim Malusa's Blog

• Djibouti Photos are up on my Flicker link

  August 12, 2008

  • I've finally posted 17 of my photos from Djibouti on the Flickr page that's accessible via the linkon the right side of my Red Room home page.
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• Five Reasons for a Book Tour

  July 28, 2008

  • 1)  Ego. When somebody who's not related to me is willing to listen, I'm happy.

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• Crap Scab Crud Blog

  July 4, 2008

  • The shining glory

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• The Big Flop at Barnes and Noble

  June 10, 2008

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    For my novice book tour, my co-publisher granted me a budget of $500. On the one hand, this was hardly anything; on the other hand, it was $500 more than nothing.

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• Who gets an interview?

  May 24, 2008

  • The morning I packed up to leave on my first-ever book tour, the phone rang at 7 AM. The call was from a radio station that wanted to set up an interview the day after my arrival in Washington, DC.
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• Waiting for Godot, or Why I Never Got a Red Room email

  May 3, 2008

  • After I'd overcome my disgust of the word 'blog' and written my first entry on Red Room, I returned to my other lives (dad and botanist) and occasionally checked for an email response to appear at the
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• Is Red Room a Road to Nowhere?

  April 29, 2008

  • Dear Reader,
    
    My agent is hounding me to get a 'real' web page, and it's now my job to prove that Red Room will work just fine. Trouble is, I've no idea.
    
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