Book Biz More on How Not to “Perish” By Neal on Oct. 25, 2005 - 9:48 AM “We can bitch and moan all we want about what our publishers are not doing for us,” says author M.J. Rose, following up on yesterday’s reactions to the NYTBR piece on how authors cope with publicity cycles. ̶ ...
Sponsored Content Bizarre on too many levels to compute By Carmen on Oct. 25, 2005 - 9:00 AM In my haste to get something up yesterday, I neglected to mention that the Book Standard broke the Terry McAuliffe book deal story on Friday. So to give some props to them, they get the primary link on this story, which even a few ...
Sponsored Content McAuliffe campaigns his way to a book deal By Carmen on Oct. 24, 2005 - 4:45 PM And if Publishers Marketplace is to be believed, it’s a doozy, selling for “about seven figures” to Sean Desmond at Thomas Dunne Books by Bret Saxon of TMP. In BRING IT ON, which is slated for publication in the ...
Comic Books Hit the Road, Takumi?* By Neal on Oct. 24, 2005 - 2:05 PM Uniting today’s main themes of publicity and comic books, here’s a graf that jumped out at me in an article from last week’s PW about manga-style comics created by Americans, or OEL, for “orginal English-la ...
Book Biz “Perish” the Thought By Neal on Oct. 24, 2005 - 12:59 PM When I read Elizabeth Royte’s “Publish and Perish” on the back page of yesterday’s NYT Book Review, something about its tone struck me as a little off. It could be that Royte’s “insights” ...
Comic Books Everybody Watches the Watchmen By Neal on Oct. 24, 2005 - 8:53 AM Last Tuesday, responding to the Time book critics’ Top 100 list, I suggested that Alan Moore & Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen, which Lev Grossman views as “told with ruthless psychological realism, in fugal, overlapp ...
Comic Books …And Our Readers Go Hurm. By Neal on Oct. 24, 2005 - 8:47 AM Apparently I’ve found our hot-button issue, the one guaranteed to provoke responses from Galleycat readers–at least the fanboy contingent. (And I say this with love, you understand, because I’m a fanboy, too. Why ...
Digital Ready For My Closeup, Mr. Google By Neal on Oct. 21, 2005 - 4:58 PM Meghann Marco (left) is so enthusiastic about Google Print she asked her publisher, Simon & Schuster, to submit her humor book, Field Guide to the Apocalypse, to the program because Google is “the primary way that people ...
Trends Reading Aloud: Fun for Grownups, Too! By Neal on Oct. 21, 2005 - 12:03 PM For those of you who never thought you’d see John Lithgow share the stage with Ned Rorem, well, okay, technically, you’re right: their appearances at Symphony Space in tomorrow’s 12-hour “The Book That Chan ...
Bookselling Get Your YAs Out By Neal on Oct. 21, 2005 - 11:29 AM While most of the excitement in children’s literature last Tuesday night was centered around the satellite launch of the new Lemony Snicket, the scene at New York’s Books of Wonder offered a bit more variety, as three ...