Keep This Quiet - Margaret A. Harrell

Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan is a best-selling author of an Oprah book selection and has many awards. He's also a professor at Cornell. The New York Times wrote about Gap Creek: "You begin to feel, as you sometimes do when reading Cormac McCarthy's or Harry Crew's early novels, that the author has been typing with blood on his hands and a good deal of it has rubbed off onto your shirtsleeves." The only time I'm seen him is at a NC Writers Conference several years back, where I chose him to critique a f...

Pop Culture History – Merry Pranksters

As some of you know, a long time ago, during the publicity tour of Hell's Angels, I crossed paths - for a moment - with satirist Paul Krassner, the then founding editor of the notorious counterculture publication, The Realist. When he sent me an outrageous letter, naturally I kept it and it proved a piece of luck for my memoir. Before reproducing it in Keep This Quiet! I tracked him down and he granted me the right, free of charge, to reprint the letter - in part illustrating the philosophy tha...

Marvelous Review

I can't help reproducing such a review newly on Amazon. It seems - from this one and another, in the Portland Book Review (which will come out in December) - that an audience is defining itself beyond the one originally defined by me. Bravo and thanksgiving. This one involves artists and people struggling with the intricacies of their relationships. By the way, Keep This Quiet just went live on i-Pad. It was already live in Kindle and Nook. I cannot see it in the i-Pad display and would love ...

Jim Silberman and e-books

I talked to Jim Silberman (my boss and Hunter's editor at Random House) recently, and he said he liked using the Kindle for reading. He owns one, and so does his wife. This leads to the news that Keep This Quiet! is now in the chain of books waiting to be published on Kindle and the i-Pad. Getting them put into mobi-pocket and e-pub was a long process, as any book with photos has a more difficult road. Keep This Quiet! has 27 illustrations. By tomorrow it should be for sale on both readers. May...

“Live” Is a Glorious Word

Today I opened the B & N preorder page, and there it was: Ahead of Schedule - LIVE!! The price has gone up a few cents, to a 28% discount - still under $13.00. But the big news is that Keep This Quiet! is available there for immediate delivery, three days ahead of the announced pub date of the 15th. I had visions of the very opposite happening because the book had popped up for preorder before there was even an Ingram account set up. Now the "magic" is continuing to work. And I thank everyo...

Photo

Nick Storm, the filmmaker who is doing a documentary on the Louisville Beat poet Ron Whitehead, took some time off, before the Gonzo Fest, to read Keep This Quiet. And set up a lovely image with his filmmaking gifts. How about this? Then to top that off, he reviewed it three different places - on B & N, on Amazon, and on Good Reads. I'm experiencing firsthand how people love Hunter. Many of them feel something for him in a profound way, as a writer and also as what he modeled and dared. Cli...

$68 – $108

In its short little life, Keep This Quiet is having some drama. It started properly on preorder with B & N - high discount - went live for a day, then back to preorder. Meanwhile, Amazon had rather bizarre information about its delivery time, then went live, then back to preorder. I understand why Amazon is having trouble getting the information, and that will be straighted out this week or (latest) Monday. However, meanwhile, some review copies were put up for sale; the used ones sold, an...

And Then Again

I started to call this post "Don't Even Believe It When You See It." For whatever reason Keep This Quiet, which was live two days ago - ahead of the pub date - now reverted to preorder. I predict that by mid-week it will be live on Amazon - still ahead of the pub date - with a competitive discount. And then B & N will go live - keeping its heavily discounted preorder price. Not to belabor the issue, but it was a surprise. Meanwhile, I read Ron Whitehead's Tribute to Hunter, which is more...

Keep This Quiet!

Keep This Quiet! My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert is finally out!!! On sale here at 15% discount: B & N And here at Amazon: Same discount For Raleigh locals, you can find it in stock at Quail Ridge Books & Music. In other news, see the cloud images on display at Upstream People Gallery, in the archive for their exhibit on Photographic Processes here.

Keep This Quiet! LIVE

Keep This Quiet! has just gone live. I found that out to my surprise this morning. Doing my usual rounds of checking up on it, what did I see but "in stock." B & N still has it at a 32% discount, with immediate shipping. Amazon doesn't yet have the correct information but it will by the middle of next week, or earlier. Then it will update its display to reflect correct shipping date and discounts. In the meantime, B & N has the floor all to itself. I was worried that it would turn ou...