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Paperback and Vinyl Giveaway by Friday

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:08:56 -0800

We’re giving away some stuff, and you have until Friday for a chance to win a signed copy of “Isn’t It Pretty To Think So?” and Joe King’s new album. Who’s Joe King? He’s the singer of a band you may have heard of called The Fray. Joe’s also a frequent whiskey-drinking companion of Nick’s. So head over to Nick Miller’s page for the details.

nickmiller:

Music inspires me. I don’t usually write while listening to music, but I’ve been inspired to write several pages after hearing a good song.

My friend, Joe King (you may know him from The Fray), just released a single—from his upcoming solo album—called “Need a Woman by Friday.” Joe is a…

fernandofrench: We’re currently at #32. Mark Twain, you better...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:52:07 -0800

fernandofrench:

We’re currently at #32. Mark Twain, you better watch out because WE’RE COMING FOR YOU!

Get “Isn’t It Pretty To Think So?” for 99 cents, yo.

#BEAT_TWAIN

Fernando French Publishing: When TV Imitates Real Life

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:16:32 -0800

Fernando French Publishing: When TV Imitates Real Life:

fernandofrench:

As some of you may know, FOX airs a show called “New Girl,” starring actress Zooey Deschanel and actor Jake Johnson.

In real life, our client is named Nick Miller and he looks like this:

On the show, Jake plays a character named Nick Miller and he looks like this:

In real life, Nick is…

Nick Miller: Isn't It Pretty To Think So? By Nick Miller

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:14:38 -0700

Nick Miller: Isn't It Pretty To Think So? By Nick Miller:

nickmiller:

Very touching words. I appreciate the time you took to put this together.

historyerased:

The novel “Isn’t It Pretty To Think So?” written by Nick Miller changed my life. I didn’t think those 388 pages would affect me so greatly, but they truly did.

It was around…

DIESEL, Pegasus and Moe’s. fernandofrench: Readers, we...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:25:00 -0700

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DIESEL, Pegasus and Moe’s.

fernandofrench:

Readers, we need your help.

We want Isn’t It Pretty To Think So? to be stocked on the bookshelves of every great independent bookstore.

But there are, like, thousands of them. Help us whittle down the list by responding with your favorites.

nickmiller: Dear UK readers: Isn’t It Pretty To Think So? is...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:18:51 -0700

nickmiller:

Dear UK readers: Isn’t It Pretty To Think So? is now available at your local Foyles bookstores. Thank you, Foyles, for making the book a staff pick.

alecshao: Minimalist book cover design by Patrik Svensson

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:02:40 -0700

alecshao:

Minimalist book cover design by Patrik Svensson

fernandofrench: Dear readers: Thank you for sending us these...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:20:26 -0700

fernandofrench:

Dear readers:

Thank you for sending us these fantastic photos instead of hate mail. We really appreciate that.

As a thank you for all the love, we’ve dropped the price of Isn’t It Pretty To Think So? for the Kindle to $2.99. Pick it up here if you’d like. In the meantime, keep those pics coming.

folkrory: received this book a couple of weeks ago with a bunch...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:49:38 -0700

folkrory:

received this book a couple of weeks ago with a bunch of other books that were on my amazon wishlist. i don’t know what exactly made me want to buy this one specifically. i didn’t have it on my wishlist and no one recommended it to me. the cover definitely caught my eye, but that wasn’t it. i actually searched for the title of the novel with the intention of buying it— but i can’t, for the life of me, remember what made me do it!

whatever magical force made me buy this book, i’m so incredibly thankful for it. you have no idea. this book is beautiful. i can relate on so many levels with the protagonist even though i’m not a writer nor a guy. it’s too real, too painfully and beautifully real. i want to finish this book in one sitting, devour it, but i also don’t want to leave it behind. i want to keep reading it for a good long while.

go get it.

i have a Kindle (and it’s really convenient) but i always...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:44:07 -0700

i have a Kindle (and it’s really convenient) but i always seem to find myself gravitating toward the paper copies for some reason…

fernandofrench:

ATTENTION PAPER LOVERS: Isn’t It Pretty To Think So? is now available in paperback. Get yourself a tree copy here.

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Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:18:17 -0700

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nickmiller:

After three years of work, my novel has finally been published!

It is available for the Kindle today and in paperback next week.

Get it now on Amazon!

Paulo Coelho is pronounced PAW-lu co-AY-u.

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:56:00 -0700

Paulo Coelho is pronounced PAW-lu co-AY-u.

unwrinkled: Hunter S. Thompson.

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:45:08 -0700

unwrinkled:

Hunter S. Thompson.

"Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a..."

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:43:57 -0700

“Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”

- Stephen King

The Short List

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:07:42 -0700

The Short List:

fernandofrench:

The arduous task of whittling 131 titles down to five is finally complete. Here are the nominees for the first-ever One Book, One Tumblr:

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson

Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Extremely…

If you consider yourself a literature buff, you must go watch...

Tue, 31 May 2011 12:37:00 -0700

If you consider yourself a literature buff, you must go watch Woody Allen’s new movie, Midnight In Paris.

Fernando French: One Book, One Tumblr

Tue, 31 May 2011 10:05:15 -0700

Fernando French: One Book, One Tumblr:

My three:

Everyman - Philip Roth
Mao II - Don DeLillo
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata

fernandofrench:

Everyone is doing it. Seattleites started the trend in 1998 and Chicagoans followed suit a few years later. It wasn’t long before the idea trickled through to other cities and they started doing it.

Then, a writer from Wired wondered: what if, instead of being bounded by the limits of a physical…

unwrinkled: Joyce Carol Oates.

Wed, 25 May 2011 10:01:14 -0700

unwrinkled:

Joyce Carol Oates.

Where’s Waldo?

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:58:48 -0700

Where’s Waldo?

laphamsquarterly: From the always awesome Cabinet, on the typed...

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:04:05 -0700

laphamsquarterly:

From the always awesome Cabinet, on the typed pages used in The Shining.

Never one to stint on artistic integrity and veracity, Kubrick used no shortcuts for the relatively simple scene. As artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin discovered during recent research in the Kubrick archives in London, instead of having the sentence typed on only the few sheets seen by viewers, the director asked his secretary Margaret Warrington to type it on each one of the 500-odd sheets in the stack. What’s more, he also had Warrington type up an equivalent number of manuscript pages in four languages—French, German, Italian, Spanish—for foreign releases of the film.

Which reminds us, our newest issue “Lines of Work” goes up online tomorrow, and our launch party is this Friday, March 18th at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.