Authors It’s a train wreck, but I can’t stop watching it By Carmen on Nov. 30, 2005 - 10:30 AM Who would have thought that my item Monday on Ballantine exec editor Joe Blades would have spun so wildly out of control? For those keeping score at home, noted mystery and YA fiction writer Sandra Scoppettone blogged about the ne ...
Revolving Door Did Paul Crichton have his hand in the cookie jar? By Carmen on Nov. 30, 2005 - 9:05 AM Because that sure seems to be what Page Six is implying this morning: Tongues wagged when Paul Crichton, public relations director of publishing powerhouse Judith Regan, suddenly quit his job two weeks ago without explanation. But ...
Authors Will He Settle for a Lexus and an Olive Tree? By Neal on Nov. 30, 2005 - 9:00 AM Last week, Thomas Friedman won the first-ever Financial Times/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award for The World Is Flat. Apparently, artist Ed Miracle wants a piece of that £30,000 cash prize, because he’s sui ...
Publishing Happy Small Press Center Day! By Neal on Nov. 30, 2005 - 8:45 AM The Small Press Center celebrates its 20th anniversary tonight, and as part of the festivities, they’ll be bestowing their annual Ben Award (named after founding father and independent publisher Ben Franklin) upon Workman Pu ...
Book Biz Actually, the tagline could include a few more comparisons By Carmen on Nov. 30, 2005 - 8:45 AM There are books that get published on literary merit. There are books that get published on name branding alone. And then there are the ones in between, like this one posted yesterday to Publishers Marketplace: LA ICM talent agent ...
Digital A-List: A for Alms & for Amazon By Neal on Nov. 30, 2005 - 8:36 AM Amazon.com has already helped raise more than $12.5 million in charitable donations from customers in the months since Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi, and now they’re embarking on another major fundraising effort for ...
Awards Borders Singles Out Original Voices By Neal on Nov. 30, 2005 - 8:26 AM Borders has announced its slate of nominees for the 2005 Original Voices Awards. “Nominees were selected by Borders store employees and employees from the company’s headquarters,” explains the official press rele ...
Revolving Door On the Personnel front By Carmen on Nov. 29, 2005 - 12:22 PM So Paul Crichton’s exit from ReganMedia may have been underreported, but the news of his replacement hit both Publishers Weekly and Marketplace. Justin Loeber will take over effective January 3, stepping down from his post a ...
Adaptation Lewis Condemns Film from Beyond the Grave? By Neal on Nov. 29, 2005 - 11:35 AM I’ve devoted so much attention to the upcoming The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe film that I feel compelled to note that C.S. Lewis didn’t want any live-action Narnia films. At least not in 1959, when he wrote to a ...
Trends Literacy is in the eye of the beholder By Carmen on Nov. 29, 2005 - 10:04 AM It’s that time of year again, when we all wait with excessive anticipation to find out which cities have more avid readers than anywhere else. And the winner is…Seattle, likely because there are more Internet resources ...