Authors Before the Main Event, a Bestselling Author Appears By Neal on Aug. 28, 2008 - 8:04 AM Here’s a quick trivia question: Which of tonight’s primetime speakers at the Democratic National Convention is the author of a memoir that made the New York Times bestseller list and is also the subject of another New ...
Book Biz How to Judge a Book By Its Cover (and a few other factors) By Neal on Aug. 28, 2008 - 8:00 AM “People send me lots of books,” writes 43 Folders editor Merlin Mann, “so I have to decide rather quickly whether one should be added to the ambitious pile of stuff I already really want to finish reading.” ...
Publishing The “Final” Season of Happy Ending By Neal on Aug. 27, 2008 - 2:52 PM After five years of curating a twice-monthly combination of performances from authors and acoustic musicians at the Chinatown bar Happy Ending, Amanda Stern is getting ready for one last season—but this isn’t the end o ...
Authors Two College Pals Take (Describing) Friendship to Next Publishing Level By Neal on Aug. 27, 2008 - 2:50 PM Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler met as freshman journalism students at Syracuse—”we were in different social circles but all the same classes,” Lavinthal recalled, relaxing at the Library Bar after leaving th ...
Publishing Another Voice from the “Publishing Is Dead” Crowd By Neal on Aug. 27, 2008 - 12:25 PM Last Sunday, over at the Huffington Post, Richard Laermer posted what is touted as merely the first half of an article pointing out everything that’s wrong with book publishing today. “In my book Punk Marketing one par ...
Digital O’Reilly on Amazon/Shelfari: Web 2.0 Consolidation Begins By Neal on Aug. 27, 2008 - 11:43 AM Tim O’Reilly has some interesting observations concerning Amazon.com‘s acquisition of Shelfari earlier this week—starting with the fact that the current playing field for book-themed social networking appears to ...
Book Biz Emmanuelle Alspaugh Changes Agencies By Neal on Aug. 27, 2008 - 8:03 AM Literary agent Emmanuelle Alspaugh has relocated from Wendy Sherman Associates to Judith Ehrlich Literary Management. In roughly a year and a half with Sherman’s agency, Alspaugh made deals for authors like former Miss USA C ...
Videos It’s Not The Night Chicago Died, But It’s Close By Neal on Aug. 27, 2008 - 7:00 AM Longtime GalleyCat readers will recall that one of the most frequent complaints lodged against book trailers here is the prevalence of the “slap some music and pictures and captions together” school. But there’s ...
Publishing Henry Alford, Sandra Tsing Loh: One Night Only By Neal on Aug. 26, 2008 - 9:04 AM Henry Alford first met Sandra Tsing Loh back in 1994, when they were introduced by a mutual editor. “I knew the moment I started reading [Depth Takes a Holiday] that Sandra was a kindred spirit,” Alford recently recall ...
Trends Resistance Is Futile. Books Will Be Annihilated… Really? By Neal on Aug. 26, 2008 - 9:00 AM Despite all the evidence undermining her assertion that the Internet can’t save technology because the audience for books consists largely of the middle-aged and elderly while “most people in their 20s and 30s… w ...