Book Biz Manga Biz Book? Anime Trailer! By Neal on Mar. 31, 2008 - 2:07 PM Animator Lindsey Testolin goes to town on Rob Ten Pas‘s manga-style artwork for The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, a new kind of career advice book from bestselling business author Daniel Pink: Sounds to me like they got an act ...
Publishing Two NYC Reading Series Launch in April By Neal on Mar. 31, 2008 - 12:04 PM As many GalleyCat readers know, I started Beatrice.com, one of the Internet’s first literary websites, back in 1995, and have kept it running ever since (sometimes, admittedly, not as frequently as I’d like). After 13 ...
Book Biz You’re Still Finding “Backside” Covers By Neal on Mar. 31, 2008 - 12:03 PM Drea Thew says she didn’t have to look too hard for these three additions to our growing portfolio of “back of the head book jackets,” because when people on Amazon.com buy one, they seem to wind up buying at lea ...
Authors Jessica Cutler: “I’ve Been Through This Before” By Neal on Mar. 31, 2008 - 9:00 AM When the NY Post reported Friday morning that sex-blogger-turned-novelist Jessica Cutler was linked to the Wicked Models escort ring, Neal Ungerleider at FishbowlNY tracked down her alleged agency profile. In an email exchange Fri ...
Authors David Gross Revs Up for NYC Reading By Neal on Mar. 31, 2008 - 8:23 AM Perhaps you remember an item I wrote last summer about memoirist David Gross‘s return to Manhattan during a summer lull in his job as the creative director at Ducati. Well, I hear he’s back in town again this week, and ...
Book Biz You’ve Spotted More “Back of the Head” Covers By Neal on Mar. 31, 2008 - 8:00 AM After spotting Friday morning’s post about the shot-from-behind look in women’s fiction book jackets, an amused Kristy Kiernan passed along the cover art to her second novel, Matters of Faith, which comes out this summ ...
Book Biz GalleyCat‘s Big Media Weekend By Neal on Mar. 31, 2008 - 8:00 AM Reporters sought out my commentary on two of last week’s most prominent book deals: I told the New York Times I was “shocked and amazed” by the $300,000 Stuff White People Like deal, while Boston Herald readers l ...
Events Scene @ Last Night’s Last Parties By Neal on Mar. 28, 2008 - 3:26 PM FSG editor Paul Elie offered a toast to debut novelist Fiona Maazel early into the party last night celebrating the publication of Last Last Chance—or, since Maazel (a mediabistro.com writing instructor) preferred to have th ...
Events The Accompanied Literary Society’s Forward-Looking Party By Neal on Mar. 28, 2008 - 2:53 PM I just realized that I never got around to posting these pics from last Friday night’s Accompanied Literary Society party in the penthouse of the Forward Building, the original office of America’s leading Jewish newspa ...
Book Biz One More Look at Science Fiction Book Jackets By Neal on Mar. 28, 2008 - 8:03 AM The conversation sparked by my post about science fiction book covers took a few more turns across the blogosphere. Tor art director Irene Gallo offered a thoughtful perspective on reconciling her personal aesthetics with marketpl ...