Two new Hackenbush reviews

Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job reviews at GoodReads.com

Linda Robinson

and

Georgiann

Thanks, Linda and Georgiann!

Attention Amazon-less-than-lovers

Good news for those of you who’d like to support the Wapshott Press and independent booksellers. Well, now you can do both in one mouse click:

Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job at IndieBound.com

All the Wapshott titles are there, too. Yay!

Full disclosure: I have less of a problem with Amazon these days than I used to. Wapshott runs books through Createspace, which is Amazon’s POD arm. I do this because it’s the absolute best way to do this I’ve found so far. For example, Wapshott books are on IndieBound.com w/out so much as lifting a finger beyond what I normally do at Createspace. For what I’m doing at Wapshott at this time, they’re good; I hope they stay that way. And if they don’t there are already almost as good alternatives, Baker & Taylor, for one example. Lulu just got too expensive a while ago and their cover quality isn’t as good as Createspace.

5-star Hackenbush review at Amazon

Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job by Laurel Sutton, May 31, 2010

Yay!

New Hackenbush review and a mention in the Whittier Daily News

Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job review at I Spy With My Altered Eye on May 24, 2010

“Self-discovery is part of the journey in ‘Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job: Sexual Harassment and Class Warfare’ (Wapshott Press, $12) by Ginger Mayerson. Set in the ’80s, the novel finds Mabel Hackenbush between gigs, her baritone ukulele in ruins and her car in the shop. She takes on a day job, working to get back to her real calling as a jazz vocalist. South Pasadena resident Mayerson wrote music before turning to books.”
Author highlights stair-filled walks in Southland, by Michelle J. Mills, Whittier Daily News, May 16, 2010

Wow, when did I move to South Pas? Not that I’d mind if I didn’t live in Lincoln Heights.

5 Star Review at Amazon and Barnes and Noble for “Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job”

“I was enthralled by this book. After hitting the bottom of the first page I never looked back. I was pulled into the world of Dr. Hackenbush and her endeavors to deal with life on her own terms. Forced by the untimely death of the transmission of her Karmann-Ghia and the destruction of her baritone ukulele to return to the world of industry, she takes a job with a temporary agency. Complications ensue.”
More of this review at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

A new Amazon review

Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job review by Miss “Missy”.

She gave it 3 stars and loved it. Wonder what it takes to get 5 stars from her.

Syndication is the word

Yes, the xpost thingy I had originally hoped to use needs PHP 5.3.0 or higher. Alas, Dreamhost only provides PHP 5.2.6 and there is no way I can upgrade that myself. There are also HUGE warnings on the DH info wiki about how dangerous that is, and I’m cautious by nature. So, until there is PHP 5.3.0, I’m using FeedWordPress, which seems to be working nicely, to crosspost. Thank you for your patience during these tests.

Housekeeping and plugin test

How boring, but necessary:

I finally got smart and figured out how to crosspost everything here to www.WapshottPress.com, the HQ of this wonderful mess known as Mayerson writes books (yay?). We’ll see how well that works with this posteroo.

Also, there is the Tumblr.com thingy that is all new and shiny (to me), so there’s a WapshottPress.tumblr.com for those of you who like such things. Everything that posts on the Wapshott Press website, will aggregate on the Tumblr account. There might be some independent Tumblr action, but not much as I can barely keep up as it is. And for those of you who’d just like to leave all this publishing behind and follow the incandescent posts at The Hackenblog on Tumblr, this is your lucky day: Hackenblog.tumblr.com. Will Tumblr replace Twitter? I can’t believe I’m wondering about this. I do like Tumblr more than Twitter, but that’s not saying much.

Thank you for your attention! And Happy Mother’s Day to everyone who has one. I’m agitating for a Divorcee’s Day, but it’s not getting much traction. Hallmark just isn’t returning my calls, dammit.

One Of The Best Indie Published Book Titles Of The Year

According to the latest issue of Splash magazine. Yay!

Splash Magazine

Mother’s Day Entertainment Gifts – Guide for 2010, Splash Magazine, April 21, 2010

“Dr. Hackenbush Gets a Job” is there, near the bottom of the page, but definitely there. Yay!