# CalMeacham Book Publicity Continues **URL:** \ **Category:** Marketplace\ **Created:** [May 21, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646 "2021-05-21T19:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/1 "2021-05-21T19:38:46Z")
I just learned that the National Amusement Park Historical Association (NAPHA) will shortly be publishing an article that I wrote for them about Wonderland Park in their magazine, the **NAPHA Chronicle**. > **[NAPHA - National Amusement Park Historical Association \> Home](https://www.napha.org/)** > > The National Amusement Park Historical Association is an international organization dedicated to the preservation, documentation, and enjoyment of the amusement and theme park industry - past, present and future. NAPHA is the Worlds' Only educational... Tomorrow (Saturday May 22) the Boston Book Fair will be running a series of “commercials” for recent books, made by the authors, to be called “Book Bites”. The last of the non-fiction books is my **Lost Wonderland** [https://bostonbookfest.org/year-round-events/ma-book-bites/](https://bostonbookfest.org/year-round-events/ma-book-bites/) And the Oxford University Press blog will sometime soon be running a piece I wrote for them about “Tanagra Theater and the Fishbowl Mermaid”, publicizing **Sandbows and Black Lights** , which just came out in March. > **[OUPblog](https://blog.oup.com/)** > > Oxford University's academic insights for the thinking world ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/2 "2021-06-28T02:44:52Z")
My Oxford University Press (OUP) blog article “The Mermaid in the Fishbowl” has hjust been published online: > **[The mermaid in the fishbowl: the rise of optical illusions and magical effects](https://blog.oup.com/2021/06/the-mermaid-in-the-fishbowl-the-rise-of-optical-illusions-and-magical-effects/)** > > The nineteenth century saw the publication of several books explaining how magical effects and spectral appearances could be performed using the science of optics. It started in 1831, when Sir David Brewster (famed for his discovery of Brewster... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/3 "2021-07-17T14:34:15Z")
For some reason, Amazon has decided to cut the price of **Sandbows and Black Lights** in half! You can buy it now for $21, which is a reasonable price. I have no idea how or why, but at this price I can wholeheartedly recommend the book. > **[Amazon.com: Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics: 9780197518571:...](https://www.amazon.com/Sandbows-Black-Lights-Reflections-Optics/dp/0197518575)** > > Amazon.com: Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics: 9780197518571: Wilk, Stephen R.: Books ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/4 "2021-07-22T01:14:58Z")
And now Amazon is selling **Lost Wonderland** for less than $6. How can they do this? > **[Lost Wonderland: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Boston's Million Dollar...](https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Wonderland-Brilliant-Bostons-Amusement/dp/1625345577)** > > Lost Wonderland: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Boston's Million Dollar Amusement Park \[Wilk, Stephen R.\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Lost Wonderland: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Boston's Million Dollar Amusement Park ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/5 "2021-07-22T01:24:28Z")
So now some of the hard print editions of my books are cheaper than the kindle editions. This is very weird. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/6 "2021-07-28T23:15:15Z")
I just received the latest issue (Summer 2021) of the _NAPHA Chronicle_, the magazine of the National Amusement Park Historical Association. > **[NAPHA Chronicle Magazine | National Amusement Park Historical Association](https://www.napha.org/Resources/NAPHA-Chronicle-Magazine)** > > NAPHA News and NAPHA NewsFlash! Its featured article (running eight pages, including the centerspread) is one I wrote about Wonderland. There’s also a six-page follow-up. I learned something that I had not been aware of – Kennywood Park outside Pittsburgh opened up a section called Lost Kennywood, an homage to parks and rides of the past. Lost Kennywood’s gift shop entrance is am almost perfect copy of the Main Entrance to Wonderland (but reading “KENNYWOOD” instead of “WONDERLAND”) I’m gonna have to go see that. > **[Adventure Park Shopping & Memorable Gifts | Kennywood](https://www.kennywood.com/discover-the-park/plan-your-visit/shopping)** > > With countless ways to take home all your memories, shopping in our gift shops is a breeze. Find that special souvenir or gift in any of our stores today! [![](http://www.karenandjay.com/trips/kenny08/fountain.jpg) ](http://www.karenandjay.com/trips/kenny08/fountain.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/7 "2021-07-28T23:21:14Z")
Do you get the same cut regardless of the price Amazon sets? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/8 "2021-07-29T00:15:17Z")
I should. Amazon buys from the University Press, but the rates the Press pays me is set by our contract. Which makes me wonder even more how they can do it. Possibly Amazon is so freakin’ big that they can play games with prices and not notice a loss. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/9 "2021-08-06T23:57:15Z")
There’s a Sand Sculpture Contest at Revere Beach this weekend, and one of the entries features a prominent view of the front entrance to Wonderland. They must have been inspired either by my book, or by the postcard we used for the front cover > **[Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival Returns With COVID...](https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/revere-beach-international-sand-sculpting-festival/)** > > There are fewer sculptures this year, spaced farther apart, because of the coronavirus. Masks, hand sanitizer and disinfectants will be available to everyone. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BAYTj7Uq3PI?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLlYqBh7a_8bzFEhwa8nN51ccEGF84T9Tq ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calmeacham-book-publicity-continues/942646/10 "2021-10-18T18:54:51Z")
Got my royalty statement for the first year of Lost Wonderland. One year of relentlessly pushing the book handing out bookmarks, lecturing in libraries, writing publicity articles for websites, magazines, and newspapers. Making a publicity video. Don’t go into writing for the money, kids. Make sure you love doing it.