Children’s Authors and Books to Watch for at Winter Institute 13 | Spiral Wire Bound Book Printing

A hungry dog sees a cake baking over coals. The dog drags the cake off to eat, inadvertently carrying one of the coals with it and setting fire to a neighbor’s haystack. How to assess the resulting property damage?

In analyzing why her book remains in demand, Connolly said it has likely benefited by the release of other books about the scene.

Despite the early popularity of the book, Connolly — like a lot of musicians — didn’t reap many financial benefits with the first edition.

Back in the day, though, these books were a license to print money. "The distribution network was in place; the production was pretty straightforward," Hendrix says. "These companies were real conveyor belts to make paperbacks, so there wasn’t a lot of overhead. This was really, really lucrative."

There is also the satisfaction that comes from creating something that could, in theory, inspire people and help them cook for years to come. “We designed a piece of art, a piece of history,” says Fischer, who’s working to secure a deal for a second cookbook. “I’ve chosen three activities that are completely not profitable: farming, writing, and trying to be a restaurateur. For me, nothing is financially driven in my life.”

Authors also say they have trouble figuring out exactly how many books they’ve even sold. “My biggest critique is that there’s not a lot of visibility,” Stupak says. “With Empellón, I can call my director of operations and get any bit of data I need. Whereas with books, they’re not forthcoming with that information.” (Publishing houses including Clarkson Potter, Phaidon, and Ten Speed all refused to comment.)

After the first book, whenever motherhood is introduced, it’s not warmly. While making fresh lemonade in one episode of the show, Ina says that this is "not that stuff your mother used to bring home from the grocery store." This is the opposite of how historically we speak of both mothers and of the lemonade of yore. Food in Ina’s childhood home was largely a practical event. "She wasn’t the warmest, funniest person around," Ina said of her mother. Ina has nothing, she has said, in her house from her childhood. Of her marriage day, she has said, "That’s when my life began." Never, to my knowledge, in the cookbooks or shows, is there even a hint of an idea of a pet or a child in their home. Ina and Jeffrey are two against the world.

“I must tell you, I was very frightened to try to write a children’s story or a story for children, because first of all, I think children object to being called children,” he said. “The one thing a child cannot bear is to be talked down to, to be patronized, to be talked to in baby talk. So what I tried to do was put myself inside the minds of the kids in my story, trying to remember what I myself was like when I was a kid, and the way I sounded, and the way TJ sounds.”

Swann Galleries sells Rare & Important Travel Posters on Thursday, October 25, in 232 lots. Emil Cardinaux’s St. Moritz (1918) could fetch $15,000-20,000, and sharing estimates of $12,000-18,000 are Burkhard Mangold’s Winter in Davos (1914) and Philip Zec’s striking By Night Train to Scotland (1932).

Decide upon any text you will include. Inevitably your book will need a title. You may also want to add captions to pictures. These can be simply the time and date when the shot was taken plus a place name or other identifier. Alternatively you might want to provide a detailed explanation of the picture’s contents and its relevance to the publication.

The cowboy and syndicate and cartel grows will have to be eradicated, one by one by law enforcement, and possibly the military, and even then, will be an environmental and social disaster, for years to come.

There was a conference here in Berlin a while back called “Former West,” and that’s a good description of things that seem to catch my eye: items from the Cold War era that nevertheless frustrate Cold War or binary East-West thinking. Fifteen years outside of the States and thirteen in its capitalist showpiece in Europe, West Berlin, have brought me to a more acute recognition of the extent to which I was brought up in a very specific ideology. That is, I’ve begun to recognize that “our” side has propaganda, too.