Blood Moon Productions: Its Origins, Its Oeuvre, Its Sources, & Its Legacy
Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Blood Moon proudly announces the upcoming release, on April 1, 2025, of what its president, Danforth Prince, describes as "a 250-page 'wild card,' that combines aspects of a bookseller's catalogue with a memoir, an autobiography, and a manual for media studies.
"It was inspired by new (and in many cases, horrifying) realities in North America's book distribution patterns after the "going out of business" announcement of one of our distributors, the National Book Network. It's also a late-in-life effort to document our research methods, and to explain how two eccentric but agile writers managed to accumulate so many gossipy, historically compelling exposés of American and international celebrities."
"THIS IS IT." he said, "Our best shot at compiling, for estate purposes and as an effort to revise our distribution networks, an annotated CATALOGUE—with commentary, sidebars, and source material—of our oeuvre."
"How things got DOWN and LOW at Blood Moon will never happen again," Prince continued. "Our saga, as a publishing venue, is unique. This book spins insights into the quirky small press that brazenly compiled and published, within a span of fewer than fifteen years, almost 50 tell-all biographies, film. and gossip guides that many editorial venues would have refused to touch."
"We present it as a bookseller's catalogue on steroids. To this book's 'from the cradle' overview of our publishing history, we've added narratives that illustrate our investigative techniques, and eagles'-eye views of the milieux in which—for a few decades, at least—we thrived. A historic archive, it's soaked with nostalgia for priorities and belief patterns about the American Century that have Gone With the Wind."
"This is also a testimonial to old-fashioned "upclose- and-personal" (i.e., "non-internet") conversations. In our case, many were with living witnesses to dramas-within-dramas that were crucial to that all-American phenomenon known as SHOW BIZ."
Details
Available, after April 1, 2025,
from Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com,
and through internet vendors everywhere
ISBN 978-1-936003-94-5
Trim size 8.5x11 Ppg 242 with hundreds of color photos and illustrations
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Blood Moon proudly announces the upcoming release, on April 1, 2025, of what its
president, Danforth Prince, describes as "a 250-page 'wild card,' that combines aspects of a bookseller's catalogue with a memoir, an autobiography, and a manual for media studies.
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A bookseller's catalogue on steroids. We've added narratives that illustrate our investigative techniques...and insights into the high-flying milieux in which—for a few decades, at least—we thrived.
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About the Author:
“Darwin Porter is the master of guilty pleasures. There is nothing like reading him for passing the hours. He is the Nietzsche of Naughtiness, the Goethe of Gossip, the Proust of Pop Culture. Porter knows all the nasty buzz anyone has ever heard whispered in dark bars, dim alleys, and confessional booths. And lovingly, precisely, and in as straightforward a manner as an oncoming train, his prose whacks you between the eyes with the greatest gossip since Kenneth Anger. Some would say better than Anger.” (as quoted from Alan W. Petrucelli’s THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT at Examiner.com).
Porter began his career writing about politics and the entertainment industry for Knight Newspapers and The Miami Herald. Today, he’s one of the most prolific biographers in the world. His portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Howard Hughes, John and Jackie Kennedy, Paul Newman, Merv Griffin, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and Michael Jackson have generated widespread reviews and animated radio and blogsite commentaries worldwide. Some of his biographies have been serialized to millions of readers in The Sunday Times of London and The Mail on Sunday.
Porter is also the well-known original author of many editions of The Frommer Guides, a respected travel guidebook series that’s among the most prominent and well-respected in the world.
