Authors Sci-Fi Bio Slights Sci-Fi Writer By Neal on Sep. 28, 2006 - 7:00 AM Everybody seems to like Julie Phillips’s James Tiptree, Jr.—everybody less one, that is. Science fiction author Marta Randall (left) is less than thrilled about how she comes across in the book, and she’s sent us ...
Book Biz Elsewhere @ mediabistro.com… By Neal on Sep. 28, 2006 - 6:47 AM In the latest installment of mediabistro.com’s “Pitching an Agent” series, available only to AvantGuild subscribers, Kristin Nelson of Nelson Literary Agency shares some insights into what she’s looking for ...
Authors “JT Leroy” Peeks Out to Say Hello By Neal on Sep. 28, 2006 - 6:35 AM I was pleasantly surprised to get an email from JT Leroy late Tuesday night, the first time I’d heard from the author since the myth started unravelling late last year. In the note, Laura Albert (using her real name) cheerfu ...
Authors Chomsky Still Hot, So’s Sam Harris By Neal on Sep. 28, 2006 - 6:00 AM Apparently, Hugo Chavez’s book picks have legs: the AP reports that Henry Holt has ordered another 25,000 copies of Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival, one week after the earlier 25K re-up capitalizing on Chavez’ ...
Bookselling Amazon & Penguin Team to Promote Classics By Neal on Sep. 27, 2006 - 11:15 AM The folks at Penguin Classics tell us that they’ve just launched a new marketing venture with Amazon.com: The Penguin Classics Reading Group is a quarterly program that will lead moderated discussions of books from the famil ...
Book Biz I’m Waiting for Walter Monheit’s Review By Neal on Sep. 27, 2006 - 10:55 AM Radar Online reveals the backstage drama with Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter during the making of Spy: The Funny Years, a new coffee-table book celebrating the magazine’s peak half-decade (“certain to be on the holid ...
Adaptation Cancer Vixen Hailed in Print, Headed to Screen By Neal on Sep. 27, 2006 - 10:23 AM Today’s NY Observer features Toni Schlesinger’s coverage of last week’s book party for Marisa Acocella Marchetto, on the heels of a Hollywood Reporter story revealing that Cate Blancett is negotiating for the fil ...
Book Biz So much for the “blogger book deal” bandwagon being over By Carmen on Sep. 27, 2006 - 8:48 AM Because the latest to step right up to the deal plate is Catherine Sanderson, whose blog Le Petite Anglaise caused a furore this past summer when her employers, the accountancy firm Dixon Wilson, decided to fire her for what she s ...
Book Biz The First Lady and her Dirty Books By Carmen on Sep. 27, 2006 - 8:14 AM The Washington Post’s Tamara Jones has a slightly strange conversation with Laura Bush on books – which shouldn’t have been that strange since the National Book Festival is coming up this weekend, but then you ge ...
Authors Mosley Declares NaNoWriYear, More Advice Follows By Neal on Sep. 27, 2006 - 7:09 AM According to a Reuters dispatch (don’t mind me, I just love saying “Reuters dispatch”), Walter Mosley is joining the writer’s guide brigade with This Year You Write Your Novel, because everybody’s alw ...