Revolving Door Bet I know what the top reason will be By Carmen on Aug. 30, 2005 - 9:00 AM Terry McMillan’s next book is a compendium of graduation tips. Or something, enough to fill a mere 32 pages of type, in any case. So let’s have a few suggestions, shall we? 11. Find your favorite topic and stick to it. ...
Book Biz So who’s guesting Galleycat anyway? By Carmen on Aug. 29, 2005 - 5:00 PM The problem with doing one of these introductory-type posts is that I’m never sure if I should use first person or third. The former, and sound all egotistical and self-important, or the latter, and sound distant, pompous an ...
Publishing Why pissing off Encyclopedia salesmen is a bad idea By Carmen on Aug. 29, 2005 - 12:00 PM Ever since a judge ruled that Dan Brown did not plagiarize Lewis Perdue, I’ve been waiting for the next juicy lawsuit to show up. Luckily, the folks at PublishAmerica — everyone’s favorite vanity press masqueradi ...
Book Biz I think a title change might be in order By Carmen on Aug. 29, 2005 - 11:30 AM Or else I really have to get my mind out of the gutter: Jo-Ann Power’s MISSING MEMBER, first in the mystery series, Me and Mr. Jones, featuring a forty-something Congresswoman who discovers her party’s Whip dead in her ...
Book Biz In the department of “Doth Protesteth Too Much” By Carmen on Aug. 29, 2005 - 10:30 AM Poor Patricia Cornwell. Why won’t anyone believe her? Why won’t anyone play in her Jack the Ripper Sandbox? But the story of her obsession with Walter Sickert, which first saw publication in the god-awful PORTRAIT OF A ...
Trends Being a novelist, the oversized mammary version By Carmen on Aug. 29, 2005 - 10:00 AM When I lived in London a few summers ago, I had an unhealthy fascination with the lovely lass known to some as Katie Price, but to the rest of the world — OK, the tabloid-loving, London-dwelling public — as Jordan. Mos ...
Publishing Mellow, or just Blissed Out? By Carmen on Aug. 29, 2005 - 9:30 AM Frankly, this recent profile of Canongate Publisher Jamie Byng strikes me as ranking pretty high on the absurdity scale. It could be how Joel Rickett wrote it up — what else to make of gems like these? A few years ago, Byng ...
Book Biz From the Editors Interviews By Elizabeth on Aug. 16, 2005 - 12:00 PM Jill Schwartzman interview
Authors “Jennings Death a Book Loss” By Kathryn on Aug. 9, 2005 - 10:21 AM "Jennings Death a Book Loss"