Authors FishbowlNY Takes a Literary Turn By Neal on Feb. 28, 2006 - 8:04 AM I don’t know how many of you regular GalleyCat readers also read our sister blog, FishbowlNY, but some posts yesterday afternoon overlapped with our publishing scene, so I thought I’d call them to your attention. First ...
Authors American Book Pros, Brace Yourselves By Neal on Feb. 27, 2006 - 11:25 AM How funny is it that the very day Sarah writes about authors being nice or not so nice, Lord Jeffrey Archer is back in the news? In his first television interview after having served two years in jail for a perjury conviction, Arc ...
Digital The Elements of Style, Amazon Edition By Neal on Feb. 27, 2006 - 10:54 AM After years of relying on its customers to provide content for the site in the form of reviews, Amazon.com recently invited authors to share in the workload with a blog hosting program called AmazonConnect. Now that it’s bee ...
Trends Who knew there was a name for this? By Carmen on Feb. 27, 2006 - 9:31 AM But of course, this is publishing, and all trends are affixed with catchy names. The latest is “gimmick lit” — those non-fiction books where the author does something transformative and writes about it. Think A.J ...
Authors Octavia Butler dead at 58 By Carmen on Feb. 27, 2006 - 9:03 AM Several blogs had the news first, but the Associated Press confirms the death of noted science fiction writer Octavia Butler as a result of a fall outside her home. Butler was the first black woman to gain prominence within the ge ...
Book Biz NY Comic-Con Packed All Weekend Long By Neal on Feb. 27, 2006 - 8:51 AM The Javits Center was packed tight all weekend for the first New York Comic-Con—as Newsarama reports, Saturday’s crowds were, thanks to an aggressive local media campaign, “not a lot in terms of a comic book conv ...
Publishing The ingredients for bestsellerdom By Carmen on Feb. 27, 2006 - 8:43 AM It’s an age-old question, how to turn a book into a bestseller (especially if there hasn’t been a massive pre-publication campaign to boost such efforts in a more-or-less artificial manner — the most recent examp ...
Authors Still shagging after all these years By Carmen on Feb. 27, 2006 - 8:39 AM In the midst of doom, gloom and seriousness, sometimes it’s nice to kick back with a doorstopper of a steamy saga. And who better than Jilly Cooper, who shoehorned the subgenre for her own with RIVALS, published back in 1970 ...
Publishing Wottakar’s roundup By Carmen on Feb. 27, 2006 - 8:34 AM To merge, or not to merge, that is the question. But for Richard Ratner, Director and Head of Equities for Seymour Pierce, it’s ridiculous that there are even criticisms of HMV’s plans to take over Ottakar’s. ...
Bookselling B&N to Marin County; Citizens grumble By Carmen on Feb. 27, 2006 - 8:18 AM Who would have thought an incoming Barnes & Noble store would create such a fight? But in Marin County, where customers can go to the famed independent Book Passage (which is known for a steady stream of events as well as a wr ...