by Tom DeWolf | Feb 3, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Author Stuff, Writing
One of the realities of writing a book is that people will have opinions about it. In today’s Providence Journal, Paul Davis, who previously has written about the DeWolf family’s slave-trading past, writes The DeWolf Family Burden about my book and our...
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 18, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Author Stuff, Writing
A large part of the book tour process is publicity: getting the word out so people know about your book. The only way to get the message you’re trying to convey “out there” is for folks to read your work. Leah Riviere, my publicist at Beacon Press...
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...