Book Biz More Stories You Read First on GalleyCat By Neal on Aug. 25, 2006 - 3:58 PM Remember this morning, we told you about Norman Mailer’s Hitler family saga? Well, the Associated Press put out an unbylined news item this afternoon about the new Mailer coming out in January—but according to their re ...
Book Bix Dog Show: Emily, Tippy and Boswell By Carmen on Aug. 25, 2006 - 11:30 AM frequent freelance writer Jen Miller has some help in the form of her Jack Russell terrier, Emily, who likes to crawl into her lap while Miller reads and writes. Lorra Laven‘s two year old Labrador retriever has some serious ...
Authors People Get Goofy Thinking About Bestsellers By Neal on Aug. 25, 2006 - 11:10 AM Over at the Guardian, Mark Lawson ponders the UK bestsellers. Anthony Lane did this with the American list once or twice for the New Yorker years ago, and frankly was much better at it, but then he’s Anthony Lane, after all. ...
Book Bix Dog Show: Seamus By Neal on Aug. 25, 2006 - 11:00 AM Penguin Group sales manager Jeanine Cummins (who’s also the author of A Rip in Heaven) sent us this photo of her dog, Seamus, and explained how well he gets along with her upstairs neighbor, novelist Carolyn Turgeon (whose d ...
Book Bix Dog Show: Winka, Sam and Chief By Carmen on Aug. 25, 2006 - 10:15 AM Think M.J. Rose is writing books all by herself? As it turns out, she’s got help in the form of Winka, a seven year old maltese who “writes my blogs and most of my books and demands no credit at all.” Winka enter ...
Book Bix Dog Show: Hakuna, Zoe & Maggie By Neal on Aug. 25, 2006 - 10:00 AM “Last year I was puppy-sitting this adorable yellow lab, Hakuna, for her volunteer raiser for Guide Dogs for the Blind,” writes Elizabeth Wrenn. So when she had to get an author photo taken for her debut novel, Around ...
Book Bix Dog Show: Olive, Rosa, Ginny & Gobo By Neal on Aug. 25, 2006 - 9:30 AM “Olive (left) and Rosa (right) very much wanted to go to BEA with me,” says Ben Salmon, an agent at Rights Unlimited. “Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the Reed folks to issue me badges for them, so Rosa had t ...
Authors Norman Mailer still obsessed with WWII By Carmen on Aug. 25, 2006 - 9:05 AM AICN’s Frank Bascombe sent word late yesterday afternoon that Norman Mailer will be publishing his first novel in, god, forever (OK, ten years, with 1997’s THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON being his last foray into fict ...
Publishing Travel guide publishers pissed about new airport guidelines By Carmen on Aug. 25, 2006 - 8:06 AM So the hubbub has died down since the “no liquids” ruling was handed down by various transportation authorities in the US and UK, but what’s that going to do to flights? (So far, drop the prices bigtime, if a cur ...
Authors Kelly Link gets the full Harcourt press By Carmen on Aug. 25, 2006 - 7:54 AM If you have any connection to the speculative fiction world whatsoever, you know Kelly Link‘s name. She only writes short stories, most of them have appeared through her and husband Gavin Grant’s publishing press, Smal ...