Bookselling Bookstore Clerk Considers Fallaci Pathetic By Neal on Feb. 27, 2006 - 8:07 AM Saturday’s LAT featured an essay by Catherine Seipp in which she passes on a story told to her by a friend about visiting San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore and asking if they had the English-language edition of Ori ...
Authors The world according to Kate By Carmen on Feb. 25, 2006 - 6:45 PM It’s a special weekend edition here at Galleycat (thanks to out-of-town trips, wonky wireless and other errors of comedy) and what’s everyone talking about now? Why, Kate Braverman’s interview with the LA Times w ...
Book Biz Friday @ NY Comic-Con By Neal on Feb. 24, 2006 - 11:11 PM I got to the first day of New York Comic-Con just in time to catch the “State of the Industry” panel, with top brass from the biggest players in the funny book world weighing in, and it turned out that while I was wait ...
Authors This Never Would’ve Happened in William Shawn’s Day By Neal on Feb. 24, 2006 - 10:11 PM Our friends at FishbowlNY tell us that Malcolm Gladwell has a blog, which he says will be “a very valuable supplement to my books and the writing I do for the New Yorker.”
Authors Rich, Glamorous, and a Man of Letters to Boot By Neal on Feb. 24, 2006 - 10:49 AM Last month, Sarah spotted an article in WSJ about Tom Perkins, legendary venture capitalist turned novelist (with some encouragement from his ex-wife, Danielle Steel). This morning, the NYT business section catches up with a short ...
Book Biz 10 Days Left to Register! By Neal on Feb. 24, 2006 - 8:31 AM Just a reminder that on Monday, March 6th, I’ll be hosting a mediabistro.com seminar on biography writing at The Studio Theater at Theater Row from 7-10 p.m. (that includes the roundtable discussion, the Q&A, and some dr ...
Sponsored Content Fantasy Trilogy to Conclude Online By Neal on Feb. 23, 2006 - 1:19 PM Back in December, I told you about Diane Duane’s exploration of POD as a way to give fans the long-awaited conclusion to a fantasy trilogy that Warner couldn’t bring itself to publish after crunching the numbers on vol ...
Authors Freywatch Back to Square One By Neal on Feb. 23, 2006 - 11:59 AM Page Six is breathlessly reporting the cancellation of James Frey’s two-book deal with Riverhead, complete with confirmation from “Frey’s rep.” (His Riverhead publicist for My Friend Leonard? His personal p ...
Publishing NYT: October’s News Today! By Neal on Feb. 23, 2006 - 8:59 AM Check out that Lawrence Van Gelder squib in today’s arts section about Flann O’Brien getting a boost from Lost when a copy of The Third Policeman appeared on screen in an October episode. “Within two days of the ...
Publishing Preiss Imprints Shut Down Overnight By Neal on Feb. 23, 2006 - 8:47 AM Seven months after the death of Byron Preiss, a report on the Science Fiction Writers of America website indicates that his two most prominent publishing houses, Ibooks and Byron Preiss Visual Publications, have suddenly filed for ...