Book Biz Toiling in Obscurity? Take Comfort Online By Neal on Sep. 28, 2007 - 2:57 PM “Everyone is an author these days… authorship, far from dying, is spreading like a rhizome fed Supergro,” says anthropologist Keith Hart in an email quoted on Bruce Sterling‘s blog. “The problem is if ...
Authors An October Full of YA Goodness By Neal on Sep. 28, 2007 - 11:32 AM Just a quick followup to my item earlier this week about Readergirlz‘s 31 Flavorites campaign, which begins next Monday. “Any project has my support if it pulls teenagers into reading and connects them with their local ...
Adaptation “My Spidey-Sense is Tingling / What’s a Good Rhyme for Tingling?” By Neal on Sep. 28, 2007 - 10:03 AM Back in April, I mentioned the first inklings of a Broadway Spider-Man musical. According to the National Ledger, plans for the show continue apace, as director Julie Taymor and the show’s backers are looking for a space to ...
Publishing Your Life Sucks, But You Get Free Books By Neal on Sep. 28, 2007 - 9:01 AM Publishing Trends has put the results of its first industry survey online, and, let’s face it, there aren’t any big surprises: “Publishers lack vision, editors lack taste, managers don’t understand the busi ...
Authors GalleyCat Goes to the Dogs, One More Time By Neal on Sep. 28, 2007 - 9:00 AM When I started sharing pictures of literary pets this summer, one of the first to appear was Alison Pace‘s dog Carlie. Here’s another shot of Carlie—who was the inspiration for a character in Pace’s recentl ...
Book Biz OJ Simpson Now Outselling Bill Clinton By Neal on Sep. 28, 2007 - 8:33 AM According to Reuters, next week’s NYT nonfiction bestseller list will see If I Did It at #2 and Giving at #3, a reversal of their positions in this weekend’s upcoming chart. I’m afraid it may be time to reassess ...
Bookselling A Dollar A Book on Crosby Street By Neal on Sep. 28, 2007 - 8:00 AM The Housing Works Used Book Café is holding its third annual “Open Air Book Fair” Saturday afternoon, with a slew of books, CDs, and movies on sale for just $1 each out on Crosby Street, with inventory being broug ...
Publishing Online Literary/Political Mag Making Jump to Print By Neal on Sep. 27, 2007 - 12:18 PM A few years back, Joel Whitney and Michael Archer started up a reading series at a Manhattan bar called Guernica. “We’d both given and been to thousands of readings and wanted to do a series that was fun and casual and ...
Publishing Simon Spotlight Officially For Grownups By Neal on Sep. 27, 2007 - 11:56 AM Carolyn Reidy‘s changes to business as usual at Simon & Schuster keep coming: Following the first wave of executive appointments, the CEO-designate has issued a memo announcing the Simon Spotlight Entertainment is being ...
Book Biz Have You Read These Yet? By Neal on Sep. 27, 2007 - 10:27 AM ⇒Motoko Rich has a great story in this morning’s NYT arts section about the rift running through the Poetry Society of America that has led to five resignations from the board of directors in the last few months. Basic ...