My Kindle Experience

Yesterday, I had a unique Kindle experience during lunch at the Porter in Atlanta's Little Five Points. Jim Milles from Suny Buffalo had a Kindle in his bag and before my very eyes, bought and downloaded Chasing the Devil's Tail. It was a first. This book and The Dying Crapshooter's Blues are currently available as e-books and the others are on the way.

Anarchie and The Fall

Grammy winner Susan Archie will be designing the cover for "The Fall." She's won too many plaudits to mention for her boxed-set design and has also done a number of first-rate book covers. Her studio, World of Anarchie, is here: www.worldofanarchie.com.

Sunday Morning

A gray Sunday morning is prime for working, so I'm jotting only a quick note. My career and the career of Five Stones Press are both laid out in detail at my website (www.davidfulmer.com) and at Five Stones (www.fivestonesllc.com) Each is updated about once a week.
Within the next 24 hours, I'll be announcing the artist who will be doing the cover for "The Fall." Hint: there's a Grammy connection.
One last word. I recommend Pandora (www.pandora.com) for writers who benefit from a soundtrack. I do a mix of classical (other than symphonic), jazz in the Bill Evans-George Shearing-Oscar Peterson vein, and Latin from below the Equator.
And now off I go.

A Change for a Class Act

Susan Larson, the book editor at The Times Picayune in New Orleans, is retiring from her post at the paper. Susan is regarded as a class act throughout the book world and will be missed. I understand she might be venturing into her own book project(s)and I wish her beyond well in that -- and everything else.

Why We Did It

We started Five Stones Press as a response to what was happening to me and to other authors with solid resumes of reviews, nominations, and awards, but who didn't achieve stellar sales. In my case, I got hit by the perfect storm of my contract with Harcourt ending, the Harcourt-Houghton Mifflin merger (which cast a number of worthy talents out the window), and the decline in the economy overall. I decided I didn't want to leave my career totally in the hands of a New York publishing world that is in flux, and so I partnered with two savvy friends to sell shares in my next book, "The Fall," which will be released March 15th. If nothing else, the unique business model is garnering much attention. You can read more here: http://fivestonesllc.com. I'll be pleased to hear what you think about this venture.

Five Stones Press...

and The First Book Project. Our publishing venture is heading out to sea under the banners of Five Stones Press and The First Book Project. TFBP refers to the publication of "The Fall" by David Fulmer, which will be released on March 15th, 2010. As we go forward, other books will become their own projects that will then be published by Five Stones Press. More here: http://fivestonesllc.com.

Welcome to My Blog

All right, so I gave in and took the plunge. Over the next days, weeks, months... and years (perhaps), I'll provide a running narrative of the creation of books, past, present, and future. Please feel free to comment, criticize, inquire, relate.
Now, onward!