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The Brooklyn Wars for sale starting 9/27, electronic review copies available now!
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, September 27: Starting that day, The Brooklyn Wars will go on sale, in both print and electronic (ePub, Kindle, and PDF) formats, at numerous online and brick-and-mortar outlets. The print edition is priced at $14.95, … Continue reading
You Can’t Judge a Book Without Its Cover
Scurrying around to finalize Brooklyn Wars publication now, so without further ado: Here, at long last, is the cover image I’ve been waiting to unveil for you. Thanks to illustrator Amy Saidens for the incredible jar label and to photographer … Continue reading
The Home Stretch
It’s been a whirlwind of activity here at Brooklyn Wars Central, as in just the last couple of weeks we’ve: Finalized the copyedited manuscript (big thanks to Lori Azim for running the text through her fine-toothed editing comb!), and sent … Continue reading
FIN
And done! I am extremely happy, not to mention relieved, to report that I have now sent the final pages of the completed Brooklyn Wars manuscript off to my readers. Over the next few weeks, I’ll make revisions based on … Continue reading
Tales of the Upzoned City
What did I tell you about there being more developments around Brooklyn development than I have time for right now? I wrote that update yesterday, and now today news broke that: A developer wants to build a 1066-foot-tall apartment tower … Continue reading
Almost There!
Yes, I know, it’s been a long while since I posted an update on The Brooklyn Wars — but rest assured, it’s because I’ve been so damn busy writing the thing. Right now I have about five hours of new … Continue reading
Breakfast Talk at CityTech Tomorrow (With Book Excerpts!)
If you’re in New York tomorrow morning at 8:30 am with nothing better to do than eat free bagels and watch me try to run PowerPoint, I’m going to be giving a talk at CityTech at 300 Jay Street in … Continue reading
The Gentrifier’s Burden
A couple of weeks back, two articles arrived in my inbox in quick succession: The first, in the Wall Street Journal, described how the crazy pace of luxury housing construction in Brooklyn — more than 21,000 new rental units expected … Continue reading