Resources The Blame Game Followup By Ethan on Jul. 30, 2008 - 9:41 AM 286 of you voted in our poll about who is to blame for poor book sales with 41% voting that everyone was to blame and 25% agreeing that the publisher has too many titles on their list. The poll has sparked some interesting convers ...
Book Biz Seth Godin Has a Posse, And It’s In Full Effect By Neal on Jul. 30, 2008 - 9:03 AM Two months ago, Seth Godin wanted your headshot for the cover to his next book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. Yesterday, with that book still two months away, he issued another invitation, announcing “a members-only tribe& ...
Reviews Is It Time for Liberals to Curl Up With a Good Book? By Neal on Jul. 30, 2008 - 8:02 AM Over at the Huffington Post, Jennifer Nix talks about how four straight years of progressive activism against the neo-con machine and no fiction reading left “my soul… running on empty,” until Aleksandar Hemon ...
Authors FishbowlLA: Jade Lee’s Fantasy Gets Graphic By Neal on Jul. 30, 2008 - 8:00 AM Among the many other things she did during Comic-Con weekend in San Diego, FishbowlLA editor Tina Dupuy caught up with fantasy author Jade Lee soon after she shook hands with Dabel Brothers Publishing on a book deal. Quick looks a ...
Awards New York’s Romance Writers Tap Knight for Agenting Honors By Neal on Jul. 29, 2008 - 11:37 AM The New York chapter of the Romance Writers of America‘s annual “Golden Apple Awards” is still nearly two months away, but one of the honorees has already been announced: Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency has be ...
Reviews Do Readers Really Miss the Vanishing Book Reviews? By Neal on Jul. 29, 2008 - 11:16 AM If you haven’t read Kassia Krozser‘s essay about why the Los Angeles Times Book Review was shuttered, do yourself a favor and read it now: “While I want to believe Steve Wasserman‘s … number of 300,00 ...
Authors Five Short Films About American Poets, Now on DVD By Neal on Jul. 29, 2008 - 10:52 AM Over the weekend, I finally got a chance to start watching The Poet’s View, a DVD of five short films by documentarian Mel Stuart, and I jumped right in with the most recent one in the collection, which profiles Kay Ryan, th ...
Book Biz Do Something Creative With This Week’s Spam By Neal on Jul. 29, 2008 - 9:54 AM Back in May, I told you how much I was digging recent issues of Weird Tales and its eclectic mix of horror and dark fantasy stories. Now the magazine is sponsoring a writing contest inspired by spam, in which contestants are invit ...
Book Biz AvantGuild: Building an Agency Outside NYC By Neal on Jul. 29, 2008 - 9:44 AM In the latest installment of mediabistro.com’s “Pitching an Agent” series, Krista Goering talks about running a new literary agency out of Lawrence, Kansas. “I’ve never considered living in the Midwes ...
Trends You Heard It Here First Dept.: Analog Audiobooks in Decline By Neal on Jul. 29, 2008 - 9:34 AM Did yesterday’s NY Times story about the end of cassette audiobooks at Hachette sound familiar? That’s probably because the “funeral” mentioned in the article was featured in GalleyCat over a month ago, alt ...