Book Biz The Year in Publishing: February 2008 By Neal on Dec. 31, 2008 - 8:00 AM Zadie Smith, charged with judging the Willisden Herald International Short Story Prize, instead decided nobody’s fiction was good enough, so the competition was called off. President Bush announced plans to freeze funding fo ...
Book Biz The Year in Publishing: January 2008 By Neal on Dec. 31, 2008 - 8:00 AM An Australian newspaper questioned Ishmael Beah‘s veracity, suggesting that the memoirist tinkered with the chronology of his experiences as a child soldier in Sierra Leone in the bestselling A Long Way Gone. Beah denied the ...
Reviews Marie Arana Leaves The Washington Post’s Book World By Jason Boog on Dec. 30, 2008 - 3:23 PM After 15 years of editing the Washington Post Book World section, Marie Arana departed with a final post at Short Stack, the book section’s blog. Arana is leaving the Post to pursue a full-time writing career. Her last post ...
Bookselling Amazon Launches New Author Pages By Jason Boog on Dec. 30, 2008 - 2:23 PM Amazon now offers an experimental selling tool, creating 2,500 customized selling pages for authors in the site’s new “Author Stores.” The company hopes to make the gigantic store home to webpages for all authors ...
Publishing A Closer Look at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group By Jason Boog on Dec. 30, 2008 - 1:23 PM As the New Year nears, School Library Journal explored the consolidation and staff cuts that lead to the creation of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. Henry Holt’s Dan Farley will lead the new division, bringing t ...
Publishing Literary Kicks Builds Random 2008 Anthology By Jason Boog on Dec. 30, 2008 - 12:23 PM The poetry and literary website Literary Kicks has published poems by readers since 2001–building a strong community of responsive readers as well. To celebrate the poetry published on the site in 2008, LitKicks created a ra ...
Digital Twitter Storytelling By Jason Boog on Dec. 30, 2008 - 11:23 AM 2008 was the year of Twitter and bite-sized posts, and a number of writers have turned the micro-blogging platform into a storytelling machine. Way back in November 2006, Smith Magazine built a bestselling six-word memoir series o ...
Publishing Project Gutenberg Looking for Error Correcting Volunteers By Jason Boog on Dec. 30, 2008 - 10:23 AM Project Gutenberg is looking for volunteers to comb through more than 30,000 books in the foundation’s collection–erasing digital book errors for future generations of readers. For 35 years, this group has archived tho ...
Bookselling How To Bring Your Book To Book Clubs By Jason Boog on Dec. 29, 2008 - 12:23 PM There’s never been a better time to take your book straight to book clubs, according to a number of GalleyCat readers. Last week, GalleyCat reported how novelists Joshua Henkin and Kelly Simmons have collectively spoken with ...
Awards Writers Lead List of Thinking Man’s Sex Symbols By Jason Boog on Dec. 29, 2008 - 11:23 AM Five authors topped The Daily Beast‘s first annual “Thinking Man’s Sex Symbol” list, causing plenty of debate at the new website. Compiled by celebrity host and journalist Toure, the list featured novelists ...