Book Bix Your Thoughts on Author/Critic Spats By Neal on Dec. 22, 2005 - 8:58 AM Yesterday, we asked you if it was kosher to assign a book review to somebody if the author of that book had previously panned the reviewer’s earlier work. And you don’t seem to have any problem with it. “I don ...
Publishing The smacking down of Wottakars, OFT-style By Carmen on Dec. 22, 2005 - 8:56 AM For those who’ve been following this story as much as I have (which, I grant, is probably not too many) the Office of Fair Trading has finally released its full text version of the decision to refer the proposed takeover of ...
Authors Charitable Agent By Neal on Dec. 21, 2005 - 12:59 PM Sci-fi writer John Scalzi* has been running a charity drive in connection with his satirical novel Agent to the Stars: for every reader who buys the book directly from Subterranean Press, the publisher would donate 10% of the cove ...
Reviews Are Literary Feuds All in Our Heads? By Neal on Dec. 21, 2005 - 10:42 AM What with all the recent public handwringing over whether Kathyrn Harrison should have been allowed to review Maureen Dowd’s book, considering what Dowd had said about Harrison’s memoir several years ago, a colleague o ...
Book Bix More Coping With the Strike By Neal on Dec. 21, 2005 - 10:19 AM “Yesterday,” says Curtis Brown agent Ginger Clark, “my commute consisted of asking my husband Brian if he could get off the computer so I could check my work email. Today, we got up at 6 A.M. and were at [the car ...
Authors That’s what happens when Homeland Security has never heard of you By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2005 - 9:21 AM Put it this way: the story of Yiyun Li’s immigration troubles hits awfully close to home right now. And at least for the moment, her story doesn’t have a happy ending yet: In the summer of 2004, Li petitioned the U.S. ...
Publishing The celebrification of book signings By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2005 - 9:01 AM The Times finds itself in Waterstone’s on the day that Paul McCartney is signing his new children’s book. Pandemonium ensues and the queue is gigantic — what’s happened to the book signings of old? “B ...
Publishing Talk About Your Quickie Affairs By Neal on Dec. 21, 2005 - 8:50 AM Late last week, Booksquare reported that Harlequin will be making a significant adjustment to their major imprints. Specifically, writes author Susan Gable, the word counts on “lines such as Superromance, Silhouette Special ...
Book Biz For Klebanoff, backlist is key By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2005 - 8:37 AM For many, the Scott Meredith Literary Agency brings to mind an earlier time when soon-to-be-greats like Ed McBain, Lawrence Block and Donald Westlake cut their teeth working the slush pile and honing their craft. And the agency ...
Sponsored Content More Questions About Times Timing By Neal on Dec. 21, 2005 - 8:33 AM Monday, there was some suggestion that NYT editors broke a story they’d been sitting on for over a year about unwarranted government wiretaps in such a way as to hype Jim Risen’s upcoming CIA book. I thought the allege ...