Evergreen Review Publishes Book Review for The Guys Who Spied for China
The Evergreen Review holds a special place in my heart. Along with its book publishing division, Grove Press, from the mid-century on, intrepid visionary, alias the publisher, Barney Rosset, brought forth to this nation a tremendous selection of cutting edge literature. This was literature that few back then would dare publish. Even today many of [...]
Minstrel’s Alley to Expand Its Book List Despite a Shaky Book Market
(Los Angeles) Minstrel’s Alley, an independent publishing and media group, has announced its intention to expand its book publishing efforts in the forthcoming year. The Los Angeles based company has scheduled three books for publication in 2011. The books will be published as trade paperbacks as well as in the EBook format. “The success of [...]
The Guys Who Spied for China on Kindle Rank
I was pleased to see that my book, The Guys Who Spied for China, my Gordon Basichis roman a clef was listed on Kindle Rank as one of the Best Kindle Books. It is always nice when one’s work is regarded, and I spent quite some time living and writing this novel. Here is the [...]
The People We Love to Hate
Not long ago, on one of the book blog sites, some guy went out of his way to tell me how indifferent he was to my work. I responded once and asked him if he was so indifferent than why did he go out of his way to tell me. I thought if he had [...]
Reflections on The Constant Travellers, Now on Kindle and EBooks
The Constant Travellers, a novel by me, Gordon Basichis, has journeyed a long way over the years. Since it was first published by G.P. Putnam’s its film rights have been optioned twice by two motion picture studios, Twentieth Century Fox, and MGM. The Authors Guild adopted it as part of their Back in Print Program [...]