Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: Final Thoughts By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 11:01 AM I first started posting to GalleyCat in September 2005. It’s been a little over two years now, and (as somebody else once wrote under different circumstances) I can tell you truthfully few periods in my life have passed so q ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: December By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 11:00 AM By now, you will have noticed that I didn’t mention any of the notable literary deaths that occurred this year. Book Chase‘s compiled list addresses the situation quite effectively. ⇒People kept knocking Amazon.c ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: November By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 11:00 AM ⇒I interviewed outgoing Simon & Schuster CEO Jack Romanos, as he expressed his confidence in successor Carolyn Reidy: “You don’t want to bring somebody in who feels like she has to tear the company apart and ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: October By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 10:45 AM ⇒Jessica Seinfeld wrote a cookbook, and people thought it reminded them of something. In his own subliminally misanthropic way, her husband tried to make things better. ⇒After raking in the big bucks on Deathly Hallows ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: September By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 10:30 AM ⇒James Frey a novel to HarperCollins, giving everybody an opportunity to rehash just how scandalized they were when they found out A Million Little Pieces had made-up bits. That was a couple days after Maureen McCormick sold ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: August By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 10:15 AM ⇒GalleyCat broke the news that Beaufort Books acquired If I Did It, O.J. Simpson‘s “hypothetical” “confession” to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, after the rights to the book re ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: July By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 10:00 AM ⇒Bloomsbury published a ridiculously overpriced children’s fantasy, and apparently hardly any of the big bookselling chains actually made a profit on the massive sales it generated, because they all had to apply massiv ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: June By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 9:45 AM ⇒A federal court decided J.T. Leroy was a fraud, although quite a few observers begged to differ. Shortly after, film producer Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, who had brought the suit against Albert, claimed over $1 million in expenses. ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: May By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 9:30 AM ⇒I interviewed Don Weise, one of the most respected publishing industry pros caught up in Perseus‘s acquisition of Avalon Publishing Group, to find out what he’d be up to next. (Months later, everyone was glad to ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: April By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 9:15 AM ⇒I went to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and got into an argument with Andrew Keen about whether or not the Internet was going to hopelessly degrade civilization. Given that his book was called The Cult of the Amat ...