Showing posts with label curmudgeon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curmudgeon. Show all posts

Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Old Curmudgeon on the Airwaves


It’s been awhile since I’ve put anything on the blog. My minions—sorry, my “assistants”—were trying to upload video of the interview I did on local Channel 12/WKRC television a few weeks ago, but I think the file was just too big. So we’ve given up on that idea. But, if you are interested, you can listen to a radio interview with me and publisher Ari Buchwald of Edgecliff Press that was broadcast on October 4 on WVXU/91.7 radio—this link will take you to the archives of the show “Around Cincinnati.” My interviews and public appearances seem to have stirred up a bit of interest in the book, and I’m selling them out of the trunk of my car, too. I read that is how Dan Brown got started, so what the heck, I thought I'd give it a try. Speaking of Dan Brown, I’m reading his newest offering right now and I may have more to say about that later. I wrote a “Curmudgeon” column that sparked a lot of comment on the uproar over the movie version of his book, The DaVinci Code, so we’ll see what comes of that.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Old Curmdugeon Is in Print!



The Collected Old Curmudgeon hits the bookstores today. Well, maybe just the virtual bookstores, but I am now officially a published author. The book is a collection of 115 columns written for the Price Hill Historical Society's newsletter, "Heritage on the Hill," from 1999 through 2009. The Society is in a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The columns reflect my motto, "Never let history get in the way of a good story," and I hope the stories are all good--a lot of them are funny, anyway. I'll be at a book signing at the Covedale Library in Price Hill on Saturday, September 26, and I expect I'll be doing other things to promote the book, too. I'll be posting my experiences on this new blog. (Thanks, Julie, one more thing to keep up with . . .) By the way, if you want to buy the book, it's available now at the Price Hill Historical Society's online bookstore.