The hardcover and paperback editions of LAUREL CANYON have now spent one week shy of seven months on the Times bestseller list, the longest run by an L.A.-based author in the last year.

From the just-released BookSense/SCBA bestseller list for the week ending Aug. 5.

From the Aug. 5 Los Angeles Times Book Review bestseller list.

From this week’s just-released Southern California Booksellers Association’s bestseller list.

Never dreamed I’d be rubbing ISBN numbers with Woody Allen on a bestseller list. Thanks to everyone for continuing to support LAUREL CANYON!

No longer a bricks-and-mortar concern, the Tower Records brand carries on as a worldwide Web presence.

The beloved flagship Tower Records on the Sunset Strip in L.A. just west of Laurel Canyon was staffed and run with great affection and intelligence, and one can only hope the rest of the chain was likewise endowed.

The books they stocked at Tower on the Sunset Strip were chosen with the same care lavished on the records, and it was always an honor, or something, to blunder in and find my book on their shelves next to Massive Attack and the Shins.

How cool, then, to behold both the hardcover and paperback editions of LAUREL CANYON clasped to the very bosom of the Tower website’s Top 10.

From the Southern California Booksellers Association’s new bestseller list.

Nonfiction

1. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert ($15)

2. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ($14)

4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion ($13.95)

5. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz ($19.95)

6. Awkward: A Detour by Mary Cappello ($16.95)

7. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz ($12.95)

8. Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker ($14)

9. Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast ($15)

10. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle ($14)

The LAUREL CANYON trade paperback enters the L.A. Times Nonfiction Bestseller List today at No. 5, exactly one year to the date—minus one week—that the hardcover edition first entered the list at No. 7.

The LAUREL CANYON hardcover rode the list throughout the summer and fall of 2006, most of it in the Top 10, eventually hitting No. 3.

Thanks to the thousands of readers who’ve made both editions a success!

The LAUREL CANYON trade paperback blasts into the Top 10 on the Southern California Booksellers Association’s bestseller list two weeks after its release.

LAUREL CANYON was a finalist for the SCBA’s 2006 Book Award, to boot.

The SCBA is an amalgam of righteous independent booksellers and wholesalers in Southern California, Nevada and Arizona who get props from this author for their tireless efforts to maintain the tradition of neighborhood bookstores against nearly overwhelming market forces to the contrary.

Stop by one today and pick up whatever book strikes your fancy; you—and they—will be glad you did.

Today, LAUREL CANYON notches its 22nd week on the Los Angeles Times Book Review’s nonfiction hardcover bestseller list, the longest run of any book released since May save Nora Ephron’s apparently unstoppable collection about aging, at 29 weeks.

Thanks to the booksellers and readers who’ve supported my book!

Just got the word that my publisher, Farrar Straus & Giroux, has ordered a fifth printing of LAUREL CANYON to keep up with demand. So be it.

LAUREL CANYON has spent 19 weeks on the LA Times Book Review’s Bestseller list, longer than any other nonfiction title released since May—yes, longer even than I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK, which is saying something, though exactly what I don’t know.

Wanna get yer mitts on a signed copy of LAUREL CANYON for a groovy holiday gift from your favorite indie bookstore? Even if said bookstore is in L.A. and you’re in Bangor? They’ve got ‘em at Book Soup and Vroman’s, in store or online. Supplies therein are dwindling, so get on with it.

Also at Diesel Malibu (where LAUREL CANYON is the store’s No. 11 bestselling book for all of 2006).

Among the chain gang in L.A., they had a bunch of signed copies last I looked at Bookstar in Studio City and at the mothership Barnes & Noble at the Grove.

The nice folks at Diesel, Malibu’s cool and unusual bookstore, inform me that LAUREL CANYON is the No. 11 bestselling book there for all of 2006 (it’s No. 9 on their hardcover nonfiction bestseller list this week).

I’ve had a soft spot for Diesel ever since Mischa Barton and a phalanx of paparazzi blundered into the middle of a reading I was conducting there one afternoon—a moment that can without qualification be charactertized as only-in-L.A.

Thanks to everybody in Malibu—fog-swathed, above—one of America’s great beauty spots, for supporting the book.

If you’d like to purchase a copy of LAUREL CANYON directly from Diesel online, click here.

LAUREL CANYON returns to the L.A. Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list after a three-week hiatus caused by a nationwide sellout at the distributor level.

At 19 weeks, the book has had the longest run on the list of any title released since May.

Thanks again to everyone who has taken LAUREL CANYON to heart, and to the booksellers for their most excellent support!

Sales of LAUREL CANYON have been, shall we say, brisk—so much so that the book’s second printing sold out much earlier than anticipated.

We’re talking totality—the nation’s two prinicipal book wholesalers, Ingram and Baker & Taylor, were without copies for a month. Even the publisher’s warehouse was bare.

Predictably, it has been nigh impossible to find LAUREL CANYON in some areas, California in particular. (For those who pay attention to such things, this is why the book has been absent from the L.A. Times Book Review’s bestseller list for the past two weeks.)

The good news is that the third printing of LAUREL CANYON is finally hitting bookstores; the better news is the publisher just ordered a fourth printing.

In the meantime, I apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone’s patience; and thanks of course to LAUREL CANYON readers across the country—and in the U.K. and Canada—who’ve made things like multiple printings a necessity.

I’ll be introducing some new features to the website that will offer you more options for purchasing the book. Watch for them soon.

From Barnes & Noble’s website…

Today, LAUREL CANYON completes its fourth consecutive month on the Los Angeles Times Book Review’s hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, landing at No. 6.

Thanks to all the readers and booksellers who’ve supported the book!

LAUREL CANYON rockets back to No. 4 on today’s L.A. Times hardcover bestseller list after a one-week hiatus….

For those keeping track of such things—I’m certainly not, of course—LAUREL CANYON has been on the list continuously since June except for last week and one other one. That’s 13 weeks total; nine of them in the Top 10 and two in the Top 5.

As of today, LAUREL CANYON has been on the LA Times hardcover bestseller list for three consecutive months (save one week when the stores ran out of books).

It entered the list June 4 at No. 7; hit No. 3 on July 30 and has bounced around mostly in the top 10 ever since.

LAUREL CANYON has outlasted “Mayflower,” “Wisdom of our Fathers,” “Godless,” “Dispatches from the Edge,” “Myths Lies and Downright Stupidity,” and outsold blockbusters like “Marley & Me” and “The World is Flat” some weeks.