
Sometimes we worry that we sound like know-it-alls here at Author Enablers headquarters. Today we want to share with you that we have the same struggles all writers do...

Your trusty Author Enablers were at the Miami Book Fair International this past weekend. Sam did a presentation for his book How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons, sitting alongside Tom Wilson, the famous “Ziggy” cartoonist, who was there for his book Zigzagging. Ka...

Sharon West of Wichita, KS writes: “I have been trying to find a word that describes the act of reading every book by a certain author. ...

Sam Barry
See you in Miami! http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/sam_ barry_on_emhow_to_play_the_harmonica.asp x
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Sam Barry is the author of the humor-inspiration book How to Play the Harmonica: And Other Life Lessons (Gibbs Smith). He works as a marketing and promotions manager at HarperOne and plays harmonica in The Rock Bottom Remainders with his brother Dave. He lives in San Francisco.

In a recent Miami Herald article by Cindy Krischer Goodman, several authors were quoted on the subject of juggling day jobs with writing—and also marketing—their books. Yo...

Sam Barry
Article in the Miami Herald about juggling work and writing:
http://www.miamiherald.com/business/stor y/1327065.html
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Follow Lisa Black around on her workday and you might uncover the plot behind her next mystery novel. It might even be in the little notebook she pulls out to jot notes and ideas for characters or sequences.

Sam Barry
See you in Miami:
http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/sam_ barry_on_emhow_to_play_the_harmonica.asp x
Source: www.miamibookfair.com
Sam Barry is the author of the humor-inspiration book How to Play the Harmonica: And Other Life Lessons (Gibbs Smith). He works as a marketing and promotions manager at HarperOne and plays harmonica in The Rock Bottom Remainders with his brother Dave. He lives in San Francisco.

Is the end near for your local independent bookseller? We sure hope not. These stores are the means by which we hear of many of the new voices in literature, and they are under siege. Why? The big guys are pricing them out of business...

Sam Barry Join me, my brother Dave Barry, and others at 10 AM today (10/31) at the new Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison Street in Berkeley near BART, downtown Berkeley. Tickets at the door. Music and Halloween fun. Vsit www.WCL.org
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Sam Barry
The Great Pigeon War: http://www.redroom.com/blog/sam-barry/th e-great-pigeon-war
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It has been a very, very long time (four months) since I wrote about the assault of the pigeons on the West coast of this great land, and in particular on the light well outside my kitchen, and no doubt many of you have wondered about the status of this

Halloween is here and you probably haven’t figured out what you want to be. We’re all tired of the Elvira and vixen-pirate-wench costumes for women, and men, enough already with the Captain Jack Sparrow bit. We...

Sam Barry Sam's son Daniel has introduced How to Play to the Eastern Hemisphere where it has been received with open arms.

Sam Barry How To Play has found its way to Taiwan and into the happy hands of these people.


















