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It’s a hard life, book publishing. You put your heart and soul into a book, working with the author to make it as good as it can possibly be, and then you send it out into the world, and……………………..sometimes, silence. Other times, not silence, but comments and mentions and reviews that just seem, somehow, wrong. […]

Thanks to all those who entered our rather taxing lyric-writing contest – at the very least, you all came up with entries that were better than mine. Hard to pick just one winner, but I’m giving the prize to Ric Kangas, for his entry reproduced below. (Ric: email me and tell me which five 33

It’s been a busy week – driving all over England (and a tiny slither of Wales), then down to Harrisburg, PA and back to NYC yesterday. A couple of albums I’ve been enjoying a lot recently: * The Pirate’s Gospel, by Alela Diane (thanks to Mike McGonigal for the tip). Check out Alela’s website here,

First Syd, now Arthur. I was lucky enough to catch a handful of “Arthur Lee with Love” shows in NYC over the last couple of years, and I won’t forget the glee and energy with which Arthur performed those songs. Here are the last few paragraphs from Andrew Hultkrans’ book about Forever Changes – written

Another of the books we’ll be publishing towards the end of this year – let’s say October, but who really knows for sure – is LD Beghtol’s ‘field guide’ to 69 Love Songs. And that’s basically what LD’s book is – a field guide. It begins with an extensive A-Z lexicon of words, terms, and

One of the fun features of Amazon.com’s Search Inside The Book facility is the concordance. According to its calculations, these are the 100 most commonly used words in our Bob Dylan Encyclopedia: 1965 2005 again album american another band between black blues bob book born came city come concert country day down dylan early end

Another of the manuscripts I’ve just received is Sean Nelson’s, about Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark album. In this extract from the Introduction, Sean is reflecting upon a magical moment in the mid-70s, hearing his mother sing along to a Joni Mitchell song on the car radio, in Laurel Canyon. *** Let’s not forget that

Many thanks to Ben Sisario for bringing this to my attention – a very touching obituary of Syd Barrett in The Economist. *** TO THOSE who were young then, the late 1960s were the best thing since 1789. All that followed paled by comparison. This was the time of the Paris riots, with students hurling

I’ve received three manuscripts in the last couple of days – always exciting. Now if only I can find the time to read the damn things. Here’s the introduction from one of them – Zeth Lundy’s book on Stevie Wonder. Will post extracts from the other two, later this week, with luck. *** The gun

It’s not often that we at Continuum see anyone reading our books in public, let alone anyone seriously cool, so it was a treat to stumble across this image on the internet, on Chris McKay’s blog. This is Chris’s friend Len, standing next to the great poet Seamus Heaney, who is cradling a copy of