Tuesday, May 28, 2013


Showmen, Sell It Hot! Is Now Available

Back from Columbus and delivery of Showmen, Sell It Hot!, Greenbriar's first book. It sold a lot better at Cinevent than I expected. People that took time to flip through it generally bought a copy. That's tribute to fine design and layout work by Robert and Mary Matzen of GoodKnight Publishing. As far as I'm concerned, they are the masterminds behind this book. It's a heady experience to sign a title page under your name as author for someone actually willing to pay for a thing you've written. GoodKnight informs me that Showmen, Sell It Hot! is available NOW on more or less exclusive basis to Greenbriar readers through their website, where it sells for $32.95, plus $6.00 shipping, that well below a cover price of $44.95. Wider distribution of the book will follow in the summer and Amazon will list it sometime in August. What we have between now and then is "pre-release" availability of the book, sort of like what Paramount and DeMille did with The Ten Commandments, but on a slightly smaller scale. GoodKnight is shipping copies today to those who pre-ordered back in April, each signed by the author's gnarled hand (my arm afterward felt like the Great Sebastian's after his trapeze fall). There are plenty more in stock and shipment will be prompt, so be assured of quick turnaround should you purchase.

1 comment:

  1. Received my copy in the mail yesterday.

    Wow!

    More pictures than there are stars in the heavens. Absolutely beautiful. GoodKnight Publishing definitely deserves a standing ovation. Looking forward to digging into the text this weekend.

    Congrats, Mr. McElwee!

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