by Wex | Feb 25, 2014 | News
Every day is Oscar Levant day here in the Wex household. Here’s one of the great man’s greatest quips. It’s from Humoresque, which also starred John Garfield and Joan Crawford: “It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that...
by Wex | Feb 19, 2014 | News
Thanks to everybody who helped Shlepping the Exile rise to number 1509 on Amazon.com’s list yesterday. It’s an amazing achievement for a book that has not been advertised and has thus far received no reviews outside of trade publications. Of course,...
by Wex | Feb 18, 2014 | News
“I wanted to head straight for trouble, my kind of trouble, counting the oymer in Roman numerals kind of trouble.” This sentence and many more can be found in Shlepping the Exile, which is being released today. You can order it anywhere, anytime, but if a...
by Wex | Feb 17, 2014 | News
…To think, for a rare change, about earning its tiny living. Since today is a statutory holiday in the province of Ontario and the whole of the USA, I can give myself a bit of a break from blogging about the books, people, and other cultural forces that have...
by Wex | Feb 14, 2014 | News
Here’s the last of my ProsenPeople blogs, this one about the difficulties in trying to get Shlepping the Exile published and some of the sillier rejections that I received , including the one above. Remember, the book comes out on Tuesday. If you order it on...
by Wex | Feb 13, 2014 | News
In which our protagonist gets bitten by the show-biz bug while rehearsing a school pageant and falls in love for the very first time. THE BOOK COMES OUT ON TUESDAY. PLEASE HELP IT CLIMB THE AMAZON LADDER OF BESTSELLERS BY ORDERING IT FROM AMAZON.COM BETWEEN NOON AND 1...
