Book Biz It’s a new spin on the Vatican Rag By Carmen on Nov. 23, 2005 - 8:56 AM The logline at Publishers Marketplace sure makes this particular deal sound intriguing: Juan Gómez Jurado’s forthcoming Spanish novel GOD’S SPY, in which a couple of Cardinals are found brutally murdered just befo ...
Sponsored Content Snowflakes: A Great Holiday Season Investment By Neal on Nov. 23, 2005 - 8:50 AM Inspired by her husband’s battle with bone cancer, children’s book author/illustrator Grace Lin launched the Robert’s Snow: For Cancer’s Cure charity auction last year. This winter it’s back, and bigg ...
Publishing One Million Minds Blown by Hermaphroditic Narrator By Neal on Nov. 23, 2005 - 8:49 AM I got a nice postcard from the folks at Picador the other day, noting that their paperback edition of Jeffrey Eugenides’ Pulitzer- and NBCC-winning Middlesex has just sold its millionth copy. “In a time when writers an ...
Digital Goodbye Blogs, Hello RSS Feeds? By Neal on Nov. 23, 2005 - 8:48 AM Darwinian Web blogger Adam Green speculates about how Google’s accumulating RSS data might transform the Internet, claiming that it’s all part of how Google Base “will blow the web apart within the next 6 to 8 mo ...
Digital Times Google Week Continues? By Neal on Nov. 23, 2005 - 8:47 AM When I mentioned the two-stories-a-day pace of the NYT Google coverage Monday afternoon, I suggested that Tuesday’s two stories would probably be in the science section. I was close: Filed under technology, we find Katie Haf ...
Revolving Door ReganMedia head of publicity quits By Carmen on Nov. 22, 2005 - 3:05 PM In a very short item in Rush & Malloy’s column from the 11/14 NYDN, which we noticed because it got cannibalized for the Monterey Daily Herald, Paul Crichton reveals that he’s left his post as publicity director fo ...
Publishing New Yorker Women Freer to Make Stuff Up By Neal on Nov. 22, 2005 - 12:09 PM I’m not entirely sold on the whole concept of tabulating magazine content, like book reviews or short stories, and breaking the results down by gender, but Elizabeth Merrick’s most recent tally of New Yorker fiction st ...
Publishing Fantasy on the Rise By Neal on Nov. 22, 2005 - 11:21 AM USA Today reports “sales of science fiction and fantasy books have jumped 8.5% in the past five years,” largely (the article claims) on the strength of the Harry Potter franchise. Although a couple of small movies base ...
Revolving Door DC Goes Back to the Classifieds By Neal on Nov. 22, 2005 - 10:50 AM Less than four months after stepping into a newly created marketing director position, Nellie Kurtzman is leaving DC Comics for Hyperion. The move to Hyperion’s children’s book division, where she’ll also be a di ...
Book Biz 50 Cent deal; 1 dollar followup By Carmen on Nov. 22, 2005 - 8:59 AM The new Simon & Schuster imprint continues to get lots of ink everywhere (so much so that it was Publishers Marketplace’s “deal of the day” for a solid week, which has to be a record of some sort) but the mos ...