Authors Kate Atkinson, the “Born-Again” Writer By Carmen on Oct. 26, 2006 - 11:55 AM First, a note to would-be interviewers: it’s probably not the wisest idea to begin an interview by spilling tea all over your chosen subject. Fortunately, Kate Atkinson, in San Francisco last weekend while on tour for her ne ...
Comic Books Lost Girls Dispute Resolved Amicably By Neal on Oct. 26, 2006 - 10:32 AM When Alan Moore’s Lost Girls came out a few months back, we told you that the Great Ormond Street Hospital, which inherited the copyrights on Peter Pan, expressed outrage over the depiction of Wendy in Moore’s pornogra ...
Sponsored Content The Devil Went Down to Austria?!? By Neal on Oct. 26, 2006 - 9:58 AM In his latest column for Forbes, James Brady learns about the new Norman Mailer. “I thought I’d better tell you what I know and everything my Provincetown sources report before it all becomes common knowledge,” B ...
Awards Whiting Prize winners, and Li’s battle for permanent residency By Carmen on Oct. 26, 2006 - 9:31 AM Two playwrights, two poets, three short story writers and two novelists are the most recent recipients of the Whiting Writers Awards, $40,000 prizes given to “emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.” APR ...
Revolving Door The publishing history of Gawker’s new co-editor By Carmen on Oct. 26, 2006 - 9:04 AM When the news broke yesterday afternoon that Gawker’s new co-editor – and the unmasked author of the site’s anonymous publishing column, Unsolicited – was Emily Gould, reactions ranged from “we know n ...
Book Biz And the winner of the LES BIENVEILLANTES auction is… By Carmen on Oct. 26, 2006 - 8:19 AM …Chatto and Windus! At least, the UK side of it, the Bookseller reports. The Random House imprint’s publishing director Alison Samuel acquired UK rights to the much-hyped 900-page novel by Jonathan Littell from agent A ...
Book Biz Second Life for Agents, too By Carmen on Oct. 26, 2006 - 7:33 AM It’s not just publishers trying their hand at the Virtual Reality social network site Second Life, as the Bookseller reported yesterday. Agent Will Francis (Second Life name Will Fresse) of the Greene & Heaton Literary A ...
Publishing HarperCollins UK distribution issues resolved? By Carmen on Oct. 26, 2006 - 6:42 AM That’s what Retail Week reports, as book retailers put the kibosh on speculation that problems at publisher HarperCollins‘ Glasgow distribution centre will stop potential bestsellers reaching the stores in time for the ...
Bookselling Getting Wise to Bookwise By Neal on Oct. 25, 2006 - 2:09 PM So there’s this new book club in the works called Bookwise…excuse me, I mean “a book club/network marketing company with a structure that is unique to both the book and network marketing industries.”* How d ...
Adaptation Dominique Paul: From Author to Auteur By Neal on Oct. 25, 2006 - 12:17 PM While quite a few novelists have had the opportunity to write the screenplay for the film version of their books, very few have also been given a seat in the director’s chair… until Dominique Paul (left) made a deal wi ...