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Not content with just being a regular columnist for SF Site, Rick Klaw decided to collect his columns, essays, reviews, and other things Klaw in Geek Confidential: Echoes From the 21st Century (currently available from Monkey Brains, Inc). As a freelance editor, former book buyer, managing editor, and bookstore manager, Rick has experience with most aspects of the book business.
Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
In the fourth and last part of the article on the making of Weird Business, the 400+ page comic book anthology he co-edited with Joe R. Lansdale, Rick tells us about how booksellers and comic retailers reacted in their attempts to sell the book and its impact on the sale of graphic novels.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
In the third part of the article on the making of Weird Business, the 400+ page comic book anthology he co-edited with Joe R. Lansdale, Rick tells us how he was able to bring in a few big name contributors, most notably the legendary Michael Moorcock.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
In the second part of the article on the making of Weird Business, the 400+ page comic book anthology he co-edited with Joe R. Lansdale, Rick tells us of his days at Blackbird Comics and how he honed his skills as an editor.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick is back after taking some time off. He is beginning a multi-part article on the making of Weird Business, the 400+ page comic book anthology he co-edited with Joe R. Lansdale and his adventures in the publishing industry.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. Interested in a copy of The Necronomicon by Abdul Alhazred? Or maybe S. Morgenstern's The Princess Bride? Perhaps Stephen Crane's The Book of Counted Sorrows? Rick tells us why your search will be fruitless.

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at the importance of writer's workshops. Recently, he taught at his third consecutive Armadillocon Writer's Workshop. There, he met some with talent, some with attitude and some who didn't understand what the process is all about. He fills us in on why they are important.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
There are days when Rick Klaw practices the art of creative aversion (also known as pochkey). A fine but little known art, it has many followers. Rick, along with Jonathan Carroll, Jeffrey Ford, Bill Crider, Gene Wolfe and Mark Finn, give us some details on their approach and the discipline needed to do it.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw has some thoughts on robots, libertarianism and open source software. Think he can tie them together? You bet. Linux may not be for everyone but it is for him.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw usually gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. But this time we're going to read some more about one of his grand passions: he's nutty for apes. His two nephews drop by for a screening of the original King Kong and we're swept up in a column about the new interest by Hollywood in redoing classic SF films.

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. But, this time, he's on the move. He takes us to visit with Hal Hall, the curator of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at the Cushing Memorial Library at Texas A&M University and gives us a thumbnail view of what is housed in their stacks.

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. This time he tells us about how publishers are bringing back classic science fiction and fantasy titles and whether their approach works for customers.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. This time out, he tells us how important it is that the store staff work well together, giving support when necessary, to provide the best level of service in order to meet the needs of customers.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. With the 20th anniversary of Neuromancer coming next year, Rick reflects upon his association with hackers and his meeting Lewis Shiner which may have been the single most important event in his literary life.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw usually gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. Not this time though. Instead we get a glimpse into one of his passions. He's nutty for apes: Planet of the Apes, King Kongs, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and everything in-between.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. Here, he gives us a glimpse on the stories he read while growing up and how his family influenced his love of books.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. He wonders what the big deal is when a customer will come into the bookstore and decides to not buy anything because they have NOT READ EVERYTHING THEY HAVE. You can never, ever have too many books.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Usually, Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. This time, he dons his writer's hat and gives us a look at some of the quirks writers employ when they are in the thrall of the muse or to get them into the mood. Some involve cheese.

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. It was a week of disappointments when it came to books received, choice of titles made by publishers, bad movies, and discovery of new (to Rick) books by Harry Whittington.

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. This time out, he gives us an inside glimpse into that little-known and little-understood condition which affects so many of us -- the book collector syndrome.

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April for Rick Klaw is a special month. It brings together the murder trial of a lesbian lover's husband, baseball movies and the Bull Durham fiasco at Cooperstown, reporters from People magazine, SF books on baseball and how Colin Wilson's The Mind Parasites changed his life.

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. This time out, he tells us how those loyalty cards, discount plans, web site accounts and other info about you are stored away and can be made available to governments and those who can impersonate them.

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. He addresses the timeless question, "Does size matter?" For those whom it does, they are missing out on some of the finest alternate history SF titles ever written.

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As in the 80s, Austin, Texas is an exciting place to be. During the beginning and through the height of the Cyberpunk Movement, two influential cyberpunks -- Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner -- lived there along with many other talented writers. The current excitement can be traced to two key events.

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. Continuing his look at used bookstores, he tells us about the differences between a successful one and those that may not be around next month. The signs are apparent. Customers can figure it out when they open the door, lugging their boxes of books to be sold or looking for that last title to complete their Neal Barrett, Jr. collection.

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. Amazed with the number of people who have sold their books to a used bookstore, he tells us about how little everyone seems to understand about the business of used books.

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"I tried to not write about it. Really. I'm not in the habit of complaining about TV show cancellations. Nine times out of ten, the show had already gone downhill, was never any good, or I didn't watch it anyway. This time is different. Farscape was easily the best science fiction show of its generation, and the premiere show on the self-proclaimed official network of the genre: the Sci Fi Channel. But somehow that genre so-called champion allowed this wonderful and important show to be canceled."

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. It is a dilemma for book sellers when a publisher releases another title in a series by someone other than the original author. On the one hand, it prompts a resurgence in interest for the original. On the other, such books can be a pale imitation of the beloved classic.

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A bookstore should be available to any member of the community, regardless of race, gender, religion, age or disability. Sadly, not all store owners agree. Many of these short-sighted individuals are losing out on potential sales to large segments of the buying population. Thankfully, there is have civil rights legislation which affords rights to a majority of people and the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

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Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. One of his goals is to open new literary doors for customers -- to shake up the foundations of their reading reality. It is a tricky thing but rewarding when it works.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. This time, he tells us about the anthology: the single best tool to expose fans to new writers. He shares with us how he came to love this form and how he uses it to turn bookstore walk-ins into regulars.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. This time out, he tells us about crossing genres: selling SF to those who say they don't read SF or don't know that they do. And how to get them to come back and read more.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. This time he provides some insights into theft, a huge problem and a contributing factor to many a bookstore closure. What is the most commonly stolen book? What's the object that sets a thief's pulse racing and makes their palms sweaty?

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. Many have wandered in asking for a book knowing nothing more that the colour of the cover, the design on the front or who the main character is. The bookseller's challenge: find that book and make a sale.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw gives us a look at how things work from behind the counter of a book store. This time out, he begins a periodic feature that he calls Stupid Publisher Tricks. Read about one involving Ray Bradbury, another that happened to Michael Moorcock and others.

Geeks With Books Geeks With Books
a column by Rick Klaw
Rick Klaw steps out from behind the counter of a book store to give us some thoughts. Ever since the events of September 11 Rick's been scared, but not for the reasons you might suspect. Flying doesn't scare him. And he's not particularly worried about a plane hitting a building either. So what's got him so upset, and what does it have to do with SF? Plenty!

Copyright © 2002 Rick Klaw


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