Authors Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: TVNewser Talks to Aram Roston By Neal on Mar. 24, 2008 - 12:56 PM Chris Ariens of mediabistro.com’s TVNewser scores an interview with Aram Roston, an investigative producer at NBC News, about The Man Who Pushed America to War, his exposé of Ahmad Chalabi’s seduction of the Ameri ...
Book Biz AvantGuild: Self-Generating Book Buzz By Neal on Mar. 24, 2008 - 11:19 AM YA author Melissa Walker has an article on mediabistro.com today about doing your own book publicity, based on her experiences after her first book was published last year and on interviews with several other writers. Among the to ...
Events Scene @ Women Against MS Luncheon By Neal on Mar. 24, 2008 - 11:02 AM Recently, close to 250 women met at Cipriani 23 for the second annual Women Against MS Luncheon, presented by the New York City chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Special guests for the event included, from left t ...
Book Biz Leaving the Sci-Fi Book Covers Behind By Neal on Mar. 24, 2008 - 8:02 AM Halting State in US and UK editions I was looking up something to do with this year’s Hugo Award nominations over the weekend when I caught a glimpse of the cover to Orbit‘s UK edition of Charles Stross‘s Halting ...
Reviews Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Dept. By Neal on Mar. 24, 2008 - 8:01 AM In yesterday’s NYT Book Review, Ron Powers revisits his youth while expressing his ambivalence over David Hajdu‘s The Ten-Cent Plague: “On a spring morning in 1953, I strolled into Mrs. Shelburne’s sixth-g ...
Digital Kornbluth: Digital Multimedia on Books? It’s About Time By Neal on Mar. 21, 2008 - 12:44 PM Over at mediabistro.com, Jesse Kornbluth considers Barnes & Noble‘s new multimedia “Studio,” developing content about books and writers for online multimedia, and recalls how he pitched them that idea back in ...
Awards Michael Chabon Gets the Hugo Nomination By Neal on Mar. 21, 2008 - 12:21 PM Last month, Michael Chabon became the second author nominated for an Edgar and a Nebula for the same novel (following Jeffrey Ford‘s The Girl in the Glass), which goes to show that the Mystery Writers of America and Science ...
Editors Putnam Head: You Have to Stay in It to Win It By Neal on Mar. 21, 2008 - 10:58 AM Putnam publisher and editor-in-chief Neil Nyren drops in on the Murderati blog for a chat with author JT Ellison, and says that while the book market has become tigher, publishers are still looking for authors they can nurture ove ...
Bookselling Borders, B&N Flirt Tentatively Through Media By Neal on Mar. 21, 2008 - 10:25 AM Thirteen months ago, I ran a post called “Would Borders Merge with B&N?” And the idea continued to fuel analyst’s imaginations throughout 2007, until even skeptics were persuaded. And now, after Borders took ...
Book Biz Didn’t Martin Mull Write This Back in ’85? By Neal on Mar. 21, 2008 - 8:05 AM $350,000 or more for Stuff White People Like? I don’t know what I can possibly add to that. Well, okay, one thing: If somebody signed up Randall Munroe for that kind of money, that would impress me.