Coral Press will be at its third straight Brooklyn Book Festival, on Sept. 12, 2010. Come by our booth and say Hi. And here's video from last year's Festival.
We're proud to introduce our new blog, RIFF-RAF, curated by our editor Richard A. Fulco (the RAF in RIFF-RAF).
RIFF-RAF is a musical blog, which has already covered the quirks of lead singers, favorite harmonica songs, and the miracle of Marvin Gaye. Richie's asked us: "If you only wrote one song, what would it be?" and "What do you think of Ringo as a drummer?" (We say: the best ever.) He's also answered the enduring question: Who is the chicken man?
RIFF-RAF will continue to feature great questions, intriguing answers, interviews with musicians and writers, a cornucopia of hard-to-find videos, and always that Coral Press focus on the intersection of music and literature, where story and music come together to lead to ... who knows where?
Who knows where? That's where RIFF-RAF is going: Each post a surprise. Check back regularly and set up RSS feeds to see what Richie and our bloggers are up to.
Coral Press books are again available from our site via Paypal at Our Books. Don't forget the Swag page for cool T's and bags. And take a look at our brand-new Map of Musical Fiction. Books also now available on Kindle—here's Meet the Annas.
Our Meet the Annas Book Trailer is the "Example" video for Squidoo's Book Trailer page—meaning that they consider it state of the art. We have a great new Book Trailer coming soon for our next novel, Look at Flower. O.K., here's a quick look.
Our Meet the Annas Trailer is now in competition in the Foreword Magazine Book Trailer contest. Please choose the Annas video and vote thumbs-up here.
The Jukebox is here! This is a huge addition to our online presence.
On the Shelves part of the Jukebox we'll be publishing full books to read online—for free, anytime you want, at your own pace.
To make online reading easy and elegant, we've invented a whole new platform we call Just Like a Book. Just Like a Book allows you to read actual book pages online with large, easily read type. Ready to turn a page? Just click on the book page you're reading. A black arrow floats up and in a second the next pages of the book are in front of you. Finished reading for the day? Click on the Save Your Place button and your place is automatically saved and ready for you when you come back to the book. (Even if you don't click the button, your place will be saved.)
What could be easier? We've done our best to make Just Like a Book ... just like a book.
We're starting off with two of our novels, Meet the Annas and Getting in Tune, as well as stories from a new collection not yet published in paper form called Murder Ballads and Musical Tales.
Just Like a Book allows us to publish a chapter at a time, so you can start off with the first chapters of Meet the Annas and Getting in Tune, as well as "The River Song" (the first story from Murder Ballads). New chapters and stories will be rolled out with regular frequency. In the Chapters box to the lower left of the book pages all the posted chapters will be bright, ones not yet ready to read will be dimmed.
Eager to read the whole book right away? Just click on our Amazon button (upper corner by the right-side page) and order the paper copy.
Also up now: The Charts, our list of the Best of Musical Fiction compiled by Coral Press and Kellie D. Brown, author of The Annotated Bibliography and Reference List of Musical Fiction.
And more to come with the Jukebox. We're working on a Comix section to publish comics dealing with music. And we're also fashioning The Jam, a place for all fans of Musical Fiction to post their own stories, riffs on our books, fictional music ephemera, songs that fit our novels, songs that fit other novels—a whole truckin' gamut of interesting stuff.
Our books now have Soundtracks! We've compiled lists of actual songs that fit our Musical Fictions—and we've embedded the songs on each book page. Just click on the JUKEBOX to the right and you can hear music fitting each novel. All books are reachable through the Our Books page. Here are direct links: Pink Cadillac, Soul Cavalcade, Getting in Tune, Meet the Annas, Cutting Time, and Lone Star Ice & Fire.
Our books are available as ebooks on Sony Reader, Kobo, and Kindle. iPad up soon.
Big plans for 2010. Our first Just Like a Book original Musical Fiction will be published. Details soon. We'll again have a booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival; this year's it's Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Also, 2010 marks our 10th Anniversary—special events up soon at the Year of Musical Fiction. And in the spring of 2011 Robert Dunn's new novel, Look at Flower, will be available everywhere. Here's a taste of the book: the Look at Flower book trailer.
By the way, our old blog, Rave On, is still up and working. It’s the part of Coral Press dedicated to discussions about Musical Fiction — especially the magical nexus between music and storytelling (and the other arts).
Our latest post is about seeing esteemed songwriters Leiber and Stoller at a Barnes and Noble talking about their new book, Hound Dog. Take a look.
We don’t promise to update Rave On that often, just when we truly have something to add about the sweet spot of music and storytelling.
And we hope you’ll join us by commenting on Rave On about your own thoughts about the mix of music and literature. As usual, Buddy Holly said it perfectly: Rave on, this crazy feelin’, [I know it’s] got us all reelin’….
2009
Coral Press had a great time at this year's Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009.
Novelist Robert Dunn was on a panel called Faux Society along with Amy Sohn (the novel Prospect Park West) and Laura Albert (a.k.a., J.T. LeRoy).
Video from our day at the Festival up now!
2008
Roger Trott's novel Getting in Tune is out now, in stores and on Amazon.com, where it's selling well. If you've read the book, please leave a comment. More info on Getting in Tune can also be found at Roger's own website. Roger is doing numerous signings and radio interviews around California—full info on his site.
2007
Coral Press appeared at the 2007 Independent Press Book Fair, Dec. 1 and 2, at the General Society Library at 20 W. 44th Street in New York City. We plan to be at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, as well as the Indie Book Fair this December.
Come visit The Annas myspace page! And find out more about Meet the Annas here, including blurbs and reviews, as well as our first sound file—a demo version of one of the Annas' hit tunes!
We're setting up a store where you will be able to purchase Coral Press T-shirts and other fun swag. Come see our store here.
2006
Watch author Robert Dunn read from Pink Cadillac at Pub buzz video news. This is a video clip from the Small Press Book Fair; click on Movies 3 and 4.
Coral Press now on myspace.com: Come be a friend!
Check out our new blog about Music Fiction: Rave On!
2005
Video now posted of Robert Dunn's appearance on WBAL-TV talking about Soul Cavalcade. WATCH HERE.
Robert Dunn has a new story, "Bo Diddley," in The Best Underground Fiction anthology. Watch for "Bo Diddley" to appear in a collection of Dunn's stories, Murder Ballads and Other Musical Tales, forthcoming from Coral Press.
Nice review of Soul Cavalcade from Should It Be a Movie. We say: "Yes!"
Soul Cavalcade, the third novel in Robert Dunn's musical novel series, has won a Reader's Preference Choice Award for fiction for 2005. MORE INFORMATION HERE.
2003
An excerpt from Pink Cadillac appears in the anthology The Best in Rock Fiction, edited by June Skinner Sawyers. Here's a link to its page at BARNESANDNOBLE.COM.
2002
Pink Cadillac has been chosen for the prestigious BOOK SENSE 76 LIST. These are books specially chosen by independent bookstores.
Coral Press books can be ordered through Ingram, Baker and Taylor, and INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS GROUP at 312.337.0747, or for orders only: 800.888.4741.
All our books are available online through BARNESANDNOBLE.COM and AMAZON. Reader reviews have been exceptional; please check them out.
Reading Tours
2011
Readings and appearances for our new novel Look at Flower will be announced as soon as they're set up.
2007
Readings for Roger Trott's Getting in Tune are going on now. More info at Roger's own website.
2006
Robert Dunn gave a reading from Pink Cadillac on Dec. 2, 2006, as part of the Small Press Book Fair at the Small Press Center, 20 W. 44th St. in NYC. He says: "Most elegant room I'll probably ever read in," and thanks all who came. Watch video of the reading HERE.
Robert Dunn was a guest author at the Midwest Literary Festival in Aurora, Illinois, on Sept. 10 and 11, 2005. Rumors are he'll be returning in 2007. MORE INFORMATION HERE.
2005
Listen to author L.E. Brady's weekly radio show on KRCL Monday and Tuesday on Roots and Blues, 1:30-3:00 pm Mountian time at 90.9 FM on the Wasatch Front, live webstream on www.krcl.org.
In support of Robert Dunn's new novel, Soul Cavalcade, the following signings/readings took place in 2005:
Sept. 12, Monday, 12 noon: Books a Million, Chicago
Sept. 30, Friday, 8 p.m.: Book Court, Brooklyn
Oct. 15, Saturday, 1 p.m.: Barnes & Noble, Baltimore
Oct. 19, Weds., 7 p.m.: Barnes & Noble, Court St., Brooklyn
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