Midpoint Blogs About Shadows & Light

July 1, 2009

Our distributor Midpoint Trade Books highlighted our forthcoming title Shadows & Light by Gary Kent on their blog, Pressing Digressions. Read the post here!

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

Hollywood Stuntman Releases Book Documenting Filmic Revolution

June 24, 2009

Gary Kent’s long awaited memoir, Shadows & Light / Journeys With Outlaws in Revolutionary Hollywood is set for official release on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 with a reading, book signing, and party held at BookPeople (603 N. Lamar, Austin, TX). This special evening will include food, drink, music, celebrity guests, and Gary Kent reading from his original work.

Kent’s eclectic and exciting memoir focuses on his forty years as a writer/director, actor, stuntman, and special effects expert in the creative canyons of Hollywood.

This much anticipated event will begin promptly at 7 p.m. with guitarists Pat Hammonds and Chris Kent playing a gut-bucket blues duet, followed by music from south Texas singer-songwriter Bianca DeLeon.

Special guests include entrepreneur/philanthropist/stuntman Rex Cumming (Walker Texas Ranger); actor/stuntman Bob Ivy (Bubba Ho-Tep, Phantasm); writer/director Don Jones (Lethal Pursuit, The Forest); producer/author Michael MacFarland (The Pyramid, The Ultimate Joy); and iconic director/actor/stunt legend Chuck Bail (The Stuntman, Freebie and The Bean, Beastmaster).

What the World of Film in Saying about Shadows & Light

“Tripping from the psychedelic 60s to the filmmaker-centric new century, Gary Kent weaves an expertly written and all-true story of the world of movies, with all of the action, actresses, drink, drugs, sex, and creative genius!”
-Don Coscarelli, Producer Director (Bubba Ho-Tep, Phantasm)

“This book is a magic piece of candy, transporting the reader back to earlier days of celluloid Villians and Heroes, where hindsight is 20/20 and artistic license will get you into any game in town.”
-Chuck Bail, iconic actor/director/stuntman, Stuntman’s Hall of Fame

“Magnificent prose that honors an exciting, turbulent time in the art of movie making magic.”
-Paul Lewis, Producer/Production Manager (Easy Rider, Colors)

“Gary Kent gives us an all access backstage pass to the days when filmmaking was poetry, when guys like Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates were working out of offices the size of closets, and craft service was a bologna sandwich. Kent’s memories are intimate and evocative, sliding through your consciousness like a fine wine, leaving the taste of a touching time when movies were really movies-a time in our culture that is missed now more than ever.”
-Esai Morales, award-winning actor (La Bamba, NYPD Blue), Screen Actor’s Guild Board of Directors, Co-founder of National Hispanic Foundation for The Arts.

“Gary Kent has either an extraordinary memory or an extraordinary imagination. His experiences on my movies in the 1960s explore a parallel universe of which I was unaware, but because of his detailed recreation I accept as accurate and true. It’s a fascinating trip and a riveting read.”
-Monte Hellman, director and producer (Ride The Whirlwind, The Shooting, Two Lane Blacktop, Reservoir Dogs)

“Gary’s odyssey takes him into the world of A-List Hollywood, Poverty Row impresarios, mad geniuses, doomed starlets and, maybe most compellingly, among the stuntmen, bit-players, horse wranglers, and grips who labor behind the scenes but are no less fascinating than the baby faces who get the big closeups. What a canvas! What a life! What a book!”
-Lars Nilsen, Alamo Drafthouse

“Gary Kent chronicles the subtle birth and growth of a dazzling cinematic style, born from the evolving mindset of its audience. It’s a world I know and Gary got it right! He turns the trick without breaking a sweat, easy reading, like breathing fresh air, yet loaded with brilliant metaphors and insights that make this book meaningful. Very stylish work.”
-Richard Rush, director

“Kent had the acting chops to star in films, the backbone to make a living as a stuntman, and the determination to learn every job on a film set. He and his fellow movie mavericks embarrassed the major studio system by blindsiding it with their creativity and originality. Their work can never be marginalized and may never be repeated. Thanks to the revolutionary work they left behind, it will also never be forgotten.”
-Ken Kish, Producer and Owner, Cinema Wasteland Movie Exposition, Cleveland, Ohio

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

Upcoming Social Media Events Presented by Deltina Hay

June 22, 2009

Following the release of her social media and Web 2.0 handbook, social media maven and Web 2.0 pioneer Deltina Hay has booked many Webinars, classes, and presentations centered around A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization.

First, on Tuesday, June 23 from 10:00-11:00 a.m. PDT, Deltina presents What You Must Do to be Successful in the Social Web Webinar. Register here.

On Wednesday, June 24 at 11:00 a.m. PST, Deltina Hay and IBPA’s Publishing University Online present Building a Strong and Integrated Social Web Presence. This class will show you how to set up and implement essential social media tools like blogs, social networking sites, media communities, and social calendars. Learn how to integrate them so that your workload is greatly reduced. For more information and to register, click here.

Beginning on Wednesday, July 1 (with second and third sessions on July 8 and July 15) at 5:00 p.m. EST, Deltina Hay and Write Well University present a teleclass series that will focus on the essential tools you should implement to create a strong presence in the Social Web, and how to optimize and integrate that presence.
Multi-session Series Class:
Class #1 - Introduction to Social Media & Web 2.0 Tools and Technologies
Class #2 - Building an Optimized Foundation in the Social Web
Class #3 - Integrating Your Social Web Presence

Click here to sign up and for more information

BiGAUSTIN’s Womens Business Center presents Conversations Breakfast Series on Thursday, July 16 from 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. (Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.) Is your business Web 2.0 ready? Learn how to optimize and market your business using social media and Web 2.0 at this event held at BookPeople (3rd floor). Topics include:

• Building a Solid Business Foundation in the Social Web - Deltina Hay, Author of A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization
• How to Use Video to Dominate Local Search - Weston Norton, Reel Social Media
• Building Lifelong Relations Through Social Media - The Romeros, Social Media Experts

For details and ticket information, visit www.bigaustin.org

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

Award-Winning Poet Delivers Metaphysical Novel

May 6, 2009

On Wednesday, May 20 at 7 p.m., Dalton Publishing and Book People (603 N. Lamar) host the official book release and signing for award-winning poet Richard Lance Williams’ debut novel Woman in the Tower: Stories for the Wounded Child. The musical stylings of Les McGehee will liven the celebration and Organic Iced Tea provided by Cafe Caffeine will be served.

Williams’ novel is a journey of fantasy, self-exploration, and renewal. An unnamed man is overtaken by confusion and uncertainty and finds himself on the brink of self-destruction when a knowing presence enters his life and guides him through the darkness with comfort of a most unexpected nature. Woman in the Tower celebrates the transformative powers of fables, exhibiting the effect these stories can have on all of us in times of crisis.

The arc of the tales not only displays a way into the recesses of the human psyche, but also explores the nature of fables, revealing them to be more than simple lessons for naive children in a dangerous world. They are scripts for how we live our interior and exterior lives and a lens through which we view the lives of others. We each have a tale we tell ourselves. Are you a princess or a scullery maid, the lost little girl or the enchanted queen? Are you willing to tell yourself another story? Are you willing to enter the world of the Woman in the Tower?

Who: Richard Lance Williams
What: Book release for Woman in the Tower
Where: BookPeople (603 N. Lamar)
When: Wednesday, May 20 at 7 p.m.

Advance Praise for Woman in the Tower:
“Richard Lance Williams has written a story sequence which bows to Grimm tales without imitating them. They have the same breadth of the Grimm’s great ‘household’ collection and are crammed with the best kind of Jungian imagery. Mr. Williams’ prose has all the sparkle of a fine fairy-tale and he has a sharp, original imagination.”
-Michael Moorcock, Nebula Award-Winning author of Behold the Man

“All we know comes from the stories we tell and the stories we are wise enough to hear. Ric Williams uses narrative as the most subtle of knives where a wise heart can peel away its own onion layers and moonlight words can stitch them up again. This novel is about Story herself, healing, erotic, sustaining.”
-Don Webb, author of When They Came

“This debut novel from accomplished poet Ric Williams channels his familiar voice-oracular, effusive, and playful as a fresh spring that’s come a long way underground. Ric dives into the darkness fearlessly, a shaman on a busman’s holiday, and it’s both a pleasure and an adventure to go along for the ride.”
-Zara Houshmand, author of A Mirror Garden

“Having the courage to choose a story over certainty becomes easier after reading Woman in the Tower. Stories are gestures to lift the veil of the apparent world so we might see the unadorned reality beneath it. With a prose style both punchy and profound, Williams is a master at lifting the veil.”
-Dennis Patrick Slattery, author of The Wounded Body

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

Social Media Book Available Next Week

April 29, 2009

by Neil Kahn

A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web, the long-awaited book written by social media consultant Deltina Hay, will be available from Wiggy Press the first week in May. The book is designed for use as a do-it-yourself handbook or textbook, demonstrating how to use the tools of Web 2.0 to build a successful and impressive Social Web presence. The companion CD is packed with links to other resources, directories of Social Websites, and fillable forms and worksheets to help users map their strategies.

This is a landmark book that brings the long touted Web 2.0 into the mainstream. It is designed for use by individuals, businesses, and students in the classroom. Avoiding tech talk where possible, the book demonstrates step-by-step how to create and use the most advanced Web 2.0 tools, most of which are free or inexpensive.

A no-nonsense guide to social media and Web 2.0, this book arms readers with the nuts and bolts of the new, open-source Internet through hands-on, real world examples. From WordPress to Facebook, Flickr to YouTube, wikis, widgets, blogs, and RSS feeds, Deltina Hay demonstrates how businesses and individuals can create and use these tools to maximize their Web presence and profit from doing so. “Deltina’s book will help you make the best use of social media. Read it. Use it. Put it into practice,” John Kremer, author of1001 Ways to Market Your Books, said.

The book is available for purchase on Amazon, from our distributor Midpoint Trade Books, or directly from Dalton Publishing.

And recently, Deltina Hay answered 19 Questions Everyone Wants to Know about Social Media for Patrick Curl of There’s a Blog in My Soup, an online guide to social media marketing, blogging, and much more! Read the social media maven’s answers and advice here.

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

Three Small Presses, One Big Read

March 2, 2009

by Neil Kahn

Showcasing the thriving literary and musical talents in Austin, Dalton Publishing, American Short Fiction, and Bat City Review come together to celebrate Small Press Month. Held annually in March, Small Press Month highlights the innovative and exciting work produced by small publishers.

Dalton author and humorist Owen Egerton (How Best to Avoid Dying) will emcee the evening featuring six writers reading both newly published and yet to be published works. The musical stylings of alt-country band Jenny and the Corn Ponies will kick off the evening, and Southpaw Jones, whose music is at once hilarious and heartbreaking, will bring the festivities to a close. From Dalton Publishing, Ric Williams shares tales from his forthcoming novel Woman in the Tower, and stuntman Gary Kent entertains with his insider’s view on revolutionary Hollywood, reading from the much-anticipated Shadows & Light. Smith Henderson and Amelia Gray, two writers featured in the Spring 2009 issue of American Short Fiction, offer a taste of delectable, unconventional short fiction. And, breathing poetic air into the evening, Josh Morison and Elyse Fenton of Bat City Review deliver lyrical and contemplative poetry.

Stacey Swann, editor of American Short Fiction, organized this brand new event to recognize the small presses, who she says “are motivated by a love of books and literature,” allowing them to “take greater risks” than big publishers. “In the current economic crisis,” Swann says, “support of these [small] presses is even more important.” While mainstream publishers are putting a freeze on acquisitions, small presses need to seize the opportunity and fill in the gap.

American Short Fiction is a literary journal that publishes short fiction written by some of the finest authors of contemporary literature. It is printed quarterly by the independent non-profit Badgerdog Literary Publishing, Inc. and distributed nationally. Bat City Review is the literary magazine of UT Austin’s Creative Writing graduate students. The nationally-circulated magazine publishes the best in contemporary short fiction and poetry.

This feast of words and music will transpire in the heart of south Austin at Cafe Caffeine (909 W. Mary) on Friday, March 6 at 7 p.m.

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

Coming in March from Wiggy Press: Do-It-Yourself Social Media Handbook

February 13, 2009

Do-it-Yourself Social Media Handbook Hits Shelves
Social Media Power owner Deltina Hay releases A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization

Austin, Texas (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 13, 2009 - A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web is a do-it-yourself handbook that demonstrates how to use Web 2.0 tools to build a successful and impressive Social Web presence. Written by Deltina Hay, owner of Social Media Power, the book comes with a CD packed with links to other resources, directories of Social Websites, and forms and worksheets to map an effective strategy.

Read the entire release at PRWeb

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

The Dalton Gang Welcomes Michael Gilmore

August 26, 2008

Please join us at BookPeople on Wednesday, August 27 at 7pm as we welcome long-time Austin poet Michael Gilmore into the ever atypical and ingenious Dalton Gang at the release party and booksigning for Restless Astronomy.

His first collection of poetry in over two decades, Restless Astronomy includes older, previously published poems as well as new, intensely incisive pieces. Ranging expansive topics, the poems cover love and loss, past relationships, the passing of heroes, parenting, and encounters with the world from Chinese cafés to Russian poet icons.

Michael Gilmore has rounded the globe in his lifetime, and his residency in such varying locales has created a background of diverse experience and an international palate, which both lend to molding his poetry. Restless Astronomy has recently received attention from Texas Poet Laureate Larry D. Thomas who brings to light that “Each page of this daring collection of poems smolders before our eyes, lucent with love and erudition.”

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

Michael Gilmore Joins the Dalton Gang with a New Poetry Collection

August 15, 2008

Dalton Publishing is thrilled to announce the release of long-time Austin poetry rebel Michael Gilmore’s Restless Astronomy. This is his first collection of poetry in over two decades. The collection includes older, previously published poems as well as new, intensely incisive pieces. Ranging expansive topics, Restless Astronomy covers love and loss, past relationships, the passing of heroes, parenting, and encounters with the world from Chinese cafés to Russian poet icons.

Michael Gilmore has rounded the globe in his lifetime, and his residency in such varying locales has created a background of diverse experience and an international palate, which both lend to molding his poetry. Restless Astronomy has recently received attention from Texas Poet Laureate Larry D. Thomas who brings to light that “Each page of this daring collection of poems smolders before our eyes, lucent with love and erudition.”

Join us at the BookPeople release party on August 27 at 7pm for a reading and booksigning by this always brilliant wordsmith.

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

Latest News: Now Emerging from Dalton Publishing - Wiggy Press!

June 18, 2008

Dalton Publishing is thrilled to introduce Wiggy Press, a brand new imprint. Wiggy Press emerges as a platform for more mainstream topics, focusing on timely, self-help, business, and other nonfiction titles. The first release from Wiggy Press is Pure Soapbox…a cleansing jolt of perspective, motivation, and humor by Kimberlie Dykeman.

Acclaimed by fellow Dalton author Owen Egerton as “an espresso shot for your heart,” Pure Soapbox offers an interactive resource of innovative inspiration. “Prepare to laugh, prepare to think, and prepare to be more and more excited about your life,” Egerton says. Kimberlie provides both wisdom and stimulation disguised in wit and humor as she calls readers forth to forge a path of lively participation. Pure Soapbox breaks the ground perfectly for what will become an exciting part of Dalton Publishing.

Join us at BookPeople on Wednesday, June 25 at 7pm for the release party and signing of Pure Soapbox…a cleansing jolt of perspective, motivation, and humor by Kimberlie Dykeman. Expect a memorable night filled with colorful surprises and, of course, motivation with a swift kick in the pants from the SOAPBOX™ Queen herself!

Tweet This Post  Delicious This Post  Digg This Post  Stumble This Post 

Next Page »

• Subscribe to Our Feed