by Tom DeWolf | Feb 10, 2008 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade
Inheriting the Trade just made its first best-seller list. The Denver Post recently published this week’s local best-seller list and Inheriting the Trade is #2 in non-fiction: Local bestsellers Article Last Updated: 02/07/2008 11:59:46 PM MST The Denver...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 10, 2008 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade
I made a mistake the other day. When I found the review of Inheriting the Trade on the Oregonian’s website, I made the false assumption that it was also in that day’s newspaper. It wasn’t. That was simply the Oregonian’s blog. The review is in...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 9, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade
Inheriting the Trade was favorably reviewed yesterday in the blog of Oregon’s statewide daily newspaper, The Oregonian. The reviewer calls the book “an eye-opening volume.” She says, “It not only dispels myths about slavery but also shows how...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 26, 2008 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews
I was asked by Jessica Bennett, the editor of the Beacon Broadside, to write a post for their blog about this experience at Sundance. That posting is available now. Beacon Broadside also updated readers about my tour along with two other Beacon authors, Kai Wright and...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 3, 2008 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews
You can listen to an interview I recently did when I recorded the narration for the the audiobook version of Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History at Brilliance Audio’s recording studio...
by Tom DeWolf | Dec 29, 2007 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews
In early December I contacted an author from Seattle I met in the summer of 2006. Anne Mini was the “resident writer” for the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association that year. She devotes her extensive blog to helping writers. If you’re...