Sponsored Content Green Book Unites President-Elect & Cyberpunk By Neal on May. 26, 2006 - 1:16 PM At the Harry M. Abrams booth last weekend, one of the most heavily promoted titles for the fall was WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, a guidebook to adopting new ways of life, from the individual level to th ...
Adaptation Only 2 Days Left to See Lestat! By Neal on May. 26, 2006 - 1:07 PM Sad but true: Lestat is closing this Sunday. Apparently they couldn’t find enough goth kids willing to fly out to Manhattan to sit in a Broadway theater and watch their favorite Anne Rice novels come to life with singing and ...
Publishing Bloggers, Publicists Need to Get Along By Neal on May. 26, 2006 - 12:36 PM Mark Sarvas laid down some common sense about a recent wave of publicist-bashing that swept through the literary blogosphere after a few people got sick of receiving queries about books that were clearly outside their editorial pu ...
Publishing The children’s book report By Carmen on May. 26, 2006 - 10:44 AM The Bookseller’s flagship feature this week focuses on the picture book market, and more to the point, why it’s become much more difficult to sell said books in the market. Both Ottakar’s and Borders report a dec ...
Publishing Big deals really do happen over dinner By Carmen on May. 26, 2006 - 9:01 AM Thought that the days of dealmaking lunches were gone? Not if you’re the Mohn family and you’re trying to keep all assets of your company, gigantic media conglomerate Bertelsmann, under your wing. According to the Fina ...
Authors Barbara Walters gets greedy, cancels contract By Carmen on May. 26, 2006 - 8:45 AM Because being the six million dollar woman simply wasn’t enough for Babs to bear, Page Six reports. The reason? “She wants money, money, money,” said one source, “as if that wasn’t enough.” Othe ...
Book Biz BEA: from the UK standpoint By Carmen on May. 26, 2006 - 8:18 AM Thought we were done with Book Expo coverage? Not so fast! After all, the numbers are in as to who attended and why. According to Publishers Marketplace, show organizers indicated that 31,971 people registered for the convention, ...
Events Party Hopping with Partland and Spiegelman By Neal on May. 26, 2006 - 8:03 AM Early last night, I made my way to Velo, a bicycle shop in the East Village, where Perigree publicist Lisa Mondello (left) introduced me to J. P. Partland, who was celebrating the release of Tour Fever, a duffer’s guide to t ...
Reviews Crowd Pleasers of the mostly male variety By Carmen on May. 26, 2006 - 7:22 AM Now, I don’t really object to the authors included in Janet Maslin’s latest column of Crowd Pleasers. Harlan Coben, Lee Child, Joe Finder, Peter Robinson, John Hart – all excellent authors whose most recent books ...
Events Some Nights My Job Is Awesome By Neal on May. 25, 2006 - 4:20 PM Earlier this week, I got invited to superstar graphic designer Chip Kidd’s apartment, where he was hosting a party for Japanese horror novelist Koji Suzuki, whose books are published here in the U.S. by Vertical. (The paperb ...