"sometimes love is a more powerful motivator than money"

Stacy Boyd, an editor at the peerless, and quite progressive, romance publisher Harlequin, posts about our team publishing model and Museum Legs. I love hearing these stories of discovery, first stumbling into us at the Brooklyn Book Fair, and then later reading about our model online, and eventually being led to delve deeper into both the book and the model and even to consider working on a book project with us down the road. This kind of intense, random, curiosity-driven individual exploration is both the reason and the reward for us.

And though Stacy mentions looking for a book project on museums, I'll point out that yes, there are indeed art romances out there, and yes, we'd love the chance to publish one.

Legs

Author-extraordinaire Amy Whitaker is on the final leg of her national book tour for Museum Legs. For those of you in Pittsburgh or anywhere near it, Amy will be giving a lecture and book signing at the Warhol tomorrow night at 7pm. Amy's spent the better part of two and a half months driving an enormous loop around the country, and though the trip itself is almost over you can catch up and follow along on her blog, where it's still joyfully only early October and she's only in Arkansas.

As much as about museums, Museum Legs is also Amy's exploration of, and paean to, creativity in everyday life. Her tour was no different. Much more than a standard issue slog from bookstore to bookstore, Amy also visited schools, museums, foundations, and corporate headquarters (including Google) and spoke as much about her unique vision of the creative, art-full world as she did about the specifics of the words on the page. I wish I could have been there throughout, but as a publisher and of course one of Amy's biggest fans, it's a joy even to watch (or at least read) from afar.