Portland publishers weighing in on ebooks in Portland Monthly...

Portland Monthly visited Hawthorne Books in the spring for this story about ebooks…
www.portlandmonthlymag.com

The Chronology of Water still garnering rave reviews!
www.word.emerson.edu/ploughshares

Our fall title The Luminist is already building quite a buzz…
www.blogtown.portlandmercury.com

Our other fall title Aftermath is as well. Here’s a recent interview with author Scott Nadelson.
www.cheekteethblog.com

Frank Meeink of Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is the subject of an upcoming feature-length documentary by Joshua Seftel. Here’s a sneak peek.
www.seftel.com

Kristen Wiig is shouting out her optioning of Monica Drake’s Clown Girl…
www.abcnews.go.com

Loretta Stinson, author of Little Green, recently spoke with Portland Tribune about domestic violence…
www.portlandtribune.com

Peter H. Fogtdal, author of The Tsar’s Dwarf, is working on his next novel…
www.fogtdal.blogspot.com

Poe Ballantine author of Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere recently did an interview over at The Nervous Breakdown…
www.thenervousbreakdown.com

James Bernard Frost’s upcoming novel A Very Minor Prophet already getting a lot of advance praise…
www.hawthornebooks.com

Soerine is funny too.

See people are smiling and in a few more seconds they will be laughing because Peter H. Fogtdal is about to start his UCLA reading for them. Laughing with Peter of course...

Hawthorne Books’ author Peter H. Fogtdal recently gave a reading of The Tsar’s Dwarf at UCLA’s The Scandinavian Section and even though it was a sunny mid-day event it was a great turnout.

In his words:

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When you walk around UCLA’s gorgeous campus, you discover that even the buildings are celebrities. I pass Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Herb Albert’s School of Music, and Cher’s Institute for Plastic Surgery. And I marvel how lucky it is that a small time Scandinavian novelist has been allowed to do a reading for this crowd.

Will Jack Nicholson show up, I ask myself? Or do I have to settle for a drunk Charlie Sheen? In my mind I see the crowded auditorium with paparazzi fighting for a photo of Angelina Jolie and me. I picture gorgeous sophomores dragging me to their dorm rooms – against my will, of course.

But unfortunately, I’m not a star. I’m just another Dane with dandruff, so I’m left to babble at The Scandinavian Institute at Royce Hall. In a small room with squeaky chairs and hoarse Norwegians.

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It’s great though.

Thirty people show up. Some of them have to stand in the hall. And hey, most students haven’t even been forced by gun point. However, I don’t count a single celebrity. Their excuses for not coming are so lame. Sandra Bullock said she was practicing her Oscar speech, and Madonna is adopting the country of Malawi. That woman just can’t get enough of anything, can she?

But I’m a humble man. I like people who haven’t been on TV. Unlike everybody else in L.A.

To read more about this and more visit Peter’s blog @ Danish Accent.

Hawthorne Books author Peter H. Fogtdal was born in 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark and has a degree in playwriting from Cal State Fullerton. He is the author of twelve novels in Danish. Three have been translated into French, two into Portuguese. In 2005 he won The Francophonian Literature Prize (Le Prix Litteraire de la Francophonie) for Le Front Chantilly. The Tsar’s Dwarf is his first novel in English. Peter H. Fogtdal shares his time between Portland, Oregon, and Copenhagen, Denmark.