Last night Peter Mayer, publisher of Overlook Press, opened up his Sohome to celebrate Katie Arnoldi’s Los Angeles Times bestselling novel, The Wentworths. While rubbing shoulders with publicist Jack Lamplough, I got to meet the majority of the Overlook publishing team, along with Mayer’s daughter Liese, Carol Fitzgerald from The Book Report, Matthew Bialer from Sanford J Greenburger Assoc, and Judith Thurman, author and staff writer for The New Yorker, who wrote the introduction for Overlook’s upcoming Milton Glaser book Drawing is Thinking. Mayer and Thurman are both very excited about the Glaser book since it contains only images with no text, titles or instruction on how to read it at all. Can’t wait to see it.
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Subrights Manager Catherine Crawford made sure to have her husband Mac Montandon chat with me about his TOTALLY AWESOME BOOK: Jetpack Dreams. Okay, I must admit, I totally geeked out when Mac told me he’s written a history of the Jetpack which will come out this October from Da Capo Press.
During Editor Aaron Schlechter’s speech, he mentioned that Bialer’s submission letter to him for The Wentworths was the shortest he ever received: “This is fantastic. Look at it.”
Arnoldi admitted in her speech that “I am Norman Wentworth, the gay brother, moral compass and backbone of the family.”
Arnoldi, a big fan of tequila has found on her book tour that it’s a great way to get people out to events. Mayer made sure to have plenty of the top shelf spirit on hand and in the quote of the night from Christeen Roden “There’s shots of tequila, what could possibly go wrong?” and amazingly, nothing did.
Peter Mayer with daughter Liese