Winter’s A-Comin’! Part I After a whirlwind swing through the Bay Area last spring, thanks to the incomparable Lowry and Linda McFerrin (from Proforma and Left Coast Writers respectively), James J. Patterson and wife, poet, Rose Solari, were off to The Land of the Northern Pine for some needed R&R and to get back to
Brooke Kenny of the Montgomery Gazette and her excellent review of Bermuda Shorts is here! “To Make The Personal Universal” Enjoy!
Thomas Paine Scholar At Gadsby’s Tavern! Paine Scholar Patrick Hughes was the featured speaker at Thomas Paine’s 274th birthday celebration at Gadsby’s Tavern in Old Town Alexandria on Jan. 29th. Mr. Hughes gave an inspired talk on Paine birthday celebrations over the past 200 years and helped Alan Squire Publishing revive this proud tradition! Read
Bermuda Shorts Movie Trailer! Beet Root Productions in partnership with Alan Squire Publishing has produced a trailer for James J. Patterson’s new book, Bermuda Shorts! Simply click on the image at the right to view, and turn the sound up!
ASP CELEBRATES THOMAS PAINE! On Saturday, Januray 29th, 2011, Alan Squire Publishing celebrated the birthday of Thomas Paine, rviving a proud tradition that goes back to the opening decades of the 19th Century. Sixty people gathered at Gadsby’s Tavern in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. There was music by the Fife & Drum Corps, colonial ale,
Grevel Lindop, of Manchester, England, Poet, Essayist, Robert Graves Scholar and editor of The White Goddess, plus DeQuincies’ Confessions Of An English Opium Eater, and one of the planet’s coolest dudes, author of dozens of books, incuding his latest, Travels On The Dance Floor, and Selected Poems, has this to say…Bermuda Shorts “has that feel