Should anyone be interested, Lewis Lapham interviewed me a couple of weeks ago about The Art of the Public Grovel. The interview is now up at bloomberg.com–click on the “video” [...]
I visited Amazon a couple of days ago, blamelessly wishing to buy a couple of books, and an invitation popped up: if I happened to be the author of The History of the Ancient World, The [...]
If you read my Twitter updates, you probably saw this one: “Never, never argue with a bad review. Chant fifty times. Repeat ad infinitum.” It’s so tempting to explain exactly [...]
So I’ve just finished speaking to the very friendly attendees at the Utah Home Educators Association convention. Talked to a lot of readers, signed a bunch of books. I promised a few scenes [...]
I haven’t done a new post for a while because I had to get back from New York, do follow-up, take care of Peace Hill Press business, clean my house, hang out with my children, clean the [...]
This is my last day, since I’m heading out in about an hour and leaving my colleague Suzanne to pack up tomorrow. I have provided her with assistance in the form of my oldest son, [...]
I’m in New York this week at BookExpoAmerica, where we have a booth next to W. W. Norton (our distributor). We ended up with a double booth this year (I’m not quite sure how it [...]
“This book was so interesting!”–spoken by a ninth grader. A couple of months ago, the daughter of a friend of my brother and sister-in-law wandered into their home office and [...]
I’ve just spent two full days at the Well-Trained Mind Tenth Anniversary conference in Williamsburg. Our wonderful conference manager Suzanne put this together to coincide with the [...]
My technologically-alert friend Charlie has pointed out that the RSS feed for this blog has changed (thanks to updates) from http://susan.peacehillpress.net/blog/?feed=rss2 to [...]
This weekend I’m in Cincinnati at the Duke Energy Center, giving eight workshops on writing, literature, and classical education at the Midwest Homeschool Convention. This is a big and very [...]
News article today from Publisher’s Weekly, worth reading if you’re interested in publishing… Missed Connection: Christian Book Expo Attracts Few Customers by Marcia Z. Nelson [...]