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Reflections on a Book Launch
Publishing, Marketing, Fiction, Life, Friends, Name Dropping Joe Mahoney Publishing, Marketing, Fiction, Life, Friends, Name Dropping Joe Mahoney

Reflections on a Book Launch

“How’d the book launch go?” somebody asked me the other day.

There aren’t enough superlatives in the English language to answer that question.

“Amazing,” I tried.

I could also have said, “Magic.” Or: “One of the best days of my life.”

All completely true. Certainly the beginning of an answer.

Here’s a longer answer.

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Just Peachy
Publishing, Writing, CBC, Marketing Joe Mahoney Publishing, Writing, CBC, Marketing Joe Mahoney

Just Peachy

It has been about a month since I released my memoir about working in radio, Adventures in the Radio Trade, into the wild, the day after I retired from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the day I became a full time writer.

“How’s all that working our for you?” someone asked me the other day.

“Just peachy,” I told them.

“What do you mean by just peachy?” they wanted to know.

“My wife bought a whole bunch of peaches and we had to eat them all up before they went bad,” I explained. “They were some good though.”

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