World Audience just published this new crime book: The Long Slide by Blair Oliver, Ph.D. and Peter Soliunas ISBN: 978-1-935444-58-9, and like all of our books, it is getting great reviews and selling well and is very popular. I’ve been very busy lately with books, books, books. They come in waves, then there is a lull, then another wave. I am just at the end of a big wave. A couple more books to move to press and then I start looking again. Sales keep rising and zero—count ‘em zero—returns, for months. I will hazard a guess that people like World Audience books! The cool thing about being a publisher is that right now all of these thousands of people are out there soaking in something from my press, and our authors. My vision and asthetic is changing our culture as we speak. And even though a major publisher sells many more books, how many are returned, or bought simply because of advertising dollars?—and thus having little if any impact.
J. Matthew Nespoli is marketing his book, Broken, very well. He will have a booth at the LA Times / Authors Den Book Fair and his staff from www.nakedwordsurfer.com selling his book.
Dr. Frank Romano has started on his next worldwide book tour as you can see in the post below. He will be in NY next month and we’re going to set up a booth in Times Square and sell his book for 2 days—that will be a blast because Frank is very cool.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian has started a tour in conjunction with his upcoming movie and book.
There is a lot more happening as World Audience takes its first steps into becoming a major force in New York publishing. It was only a matter of time for this day to arrive. I don’t care what other publishers say; they are full of it. I act. Now. If you’re not an author at World Audience, where are you and what are you doing?
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As for my own writing, I am just a couple of pages away from the first revision of my 5-act play about the Mexican Revolucion. I have gone through and made it much more focused and taut. And I have expanded parts and characters quite a bit. Now, the last stage is to shuffle the deck, in its entirety. That means changing the order and promote plots and demote other ones.
I should have The Labyrinth, edited, back from Kyle Torke in a matter of days and then I am going to greatly expand it and publish the 2nd edition. I’ve lowered the price and raised the discount.
Then I will finish my epic poem about 9-11 over the following weeks and publish the 2nd edition of my poetry chapbook. I will meet Sergey Cherep in New York at the art fair later this month to see what he’s painted about my poetry, which I will post here.
Meanwhile, I’ve already started on Moctezuma! my second 5-act play and it’s moving much faster. I expect to be done by the summer too. Then to Benito Juarez and last Porfirio Diaz.
I have no idea what any of this is going to do for me, professionally or personally—except to say that World Audience is very much on track to be a huge force this year. And it does not matter if any hippy freaks like Charlie Rose or Frank Rich refuse to acknowledge that World Audience is a major force, so long as we keep publishing great books that are very well-reviewed and bought and liked by our readers.
Perhaps I am trying to follow a similar path in my own career, and just keep churning out more and more excellent and complex work that no one else can even imagine doing. Something has to give. By the end of this year, given my press and my theater company (I didn’t even tell you about that; I’ll do so later) and all of this work of mine, I should be able to step back and say, “I am the man.”
Storm Over Morocco




