Episode #63 – Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat
Booked reviews Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat by Andrez Bergen. Recommended to us by many people, including Gordon Highland, this book delivers. It’s a great little post-apocalyptic tale about a man who finds himself the pawn in a dangerous game, and what he does to stay alive, get the girl, and steal the goat. We also talk a bit about Amazon’s unexpected foray into having brick-and-mortar stores, more on plagiarism, and share a fun website that makes fun of book covers.
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Out of Bullets – The results are in. Check them out, and learn more about the charity that Pablo is donating the unwon first prize to.
QR Markham is writing publishing a memoir. (Not citing an article, just wanted to use the strikethrough for comic effect)
Check out Better Book Titles! It’s pretty hilarious!
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Adolph Deutsch – The Maltese Falcon
Frank Edler said on February 11, 2012
I love me some weekend Booked.
Andrez Bergen said on February 11, 2012
Oh, you guys seriously rock. 28 minutes of some lovely analysis/feedback; I’m completely chuffed! And, yep, you pronounced “Melbourne” pretty darned well…
Gordon said on February 11, 2012
So cool that you guys dug the Bergen book. And ‘grats to Pablo.
Andrew Bergen said on February 11, 2012
Ha Ha Ha – precisely!!
Robb Olson said on February 12, 2012
Who doesn’t love some Booked? Teaser: I’ve just finished editing another episode, and Monday I’ll cut a third! We’re not messing around!
Frank Edler said on February 12, 2012
I feel some Patterson watch coming on!
Andrew Bergen said on February 12, 2012
Muchas gracias again – the editor, Kristopher Young, was equally blown away and says ta!!
robb said on February 14, 2012
Glad you guys enjoyed the episode. We really liked the book and were glad it found its way to us. When are we getting more?
Todd Brown Editor May December Publications said on February 14, 2012
I think I will do a podcast about writing a book about “borrowing” the script from a podcast and redoing the podcast.
robb said on February 14, 2012
I think that Christopher Nolan has a time machine, and he stole the idea for Inception from your comment. The only reason I like Inception better is because it’s got Ellen Page in it, and she’s awesome.
Sean P Ferguson said on February 14, 2012
I remember this one time I was “going full-tablet” on a girl, once. She screamed so loud the cops came.
And so did she…
Andrez Bergen said on February 18, 2012
More in the oven, Robb – just trying to get my head around the next one – ouch!