People The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Longcraine By Jeff Rivera on Oct. 30, 2009 - 7:30 AM Today’s Book of the Day is The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum by Rebecca Longcraine. This book details Frank Baum’s struggle to write and publish the famous series. Although The Wonderful Wizard ...
Authors UnBeige: Extreme Makeover, Emily Dickinson’s Home Edition By Neal on Oct. 30, 2009 - 7:03 AM UnBeige, mediabistro.com’s design blog, alerts us to a ceiling collapse at Homestead, the house in which Emily Dickinson lived as a small child and famously spent the last three decades of her adult life, writing poems. Acco ...
Publishing Chris Anderson – How Novelist Can Sell More Books By Jeff Rivera on Oct. 30, 2009 - 6:57 AM In the fourth and last part of our exclusive video interview with bestselling author, Chris Anderson, explains what novelists can do to use the “Freemium” model, (as explained his controversial book FREE) to help promo ...
People GalleyCat Readers Help Soldiers By Jason Boog on Oct. 29, 2009 - 4:23 PM Earlier this week, GalleyCat readers responded to “an urgent need” by generously sharing audiobooks with military personnel overseas through Operation Warrior Library. According to organizer Audrey Herbst, the program ...
Trends Zombie Romance Anthology Shambles Towards Readers By Jason Boog on Oct. 29, 2009 - 3:23 PM Extending a trend that has swept through the publishing industry like an airborne virus, Ravenous Romance has launched what is reportedly the world’s first zombie love anthology–bringing romance to the most gruesome su ...
Publishing Job Detective: HarperCollins Hires By Jason Boog on Oct. 29, 2009 - 12:59 PM It’s been a fairly good week for job hunters: publishers have listed three new positions today and three more yesterday. Like a hardboiled gumshoe, GalleyCat has been investigating publishing work on the mediabistro.com job ...
Book Biz Triumph Books Cancels Book by Imprisoned NBA Referee By Jason Boog on Oct. 29, 2009 - 12:23 PM The Random House imprint Triumph Books has canceled a memoir by former NBA referee Tim Donaghy. According to ESPN.com, “Blowing the Whistle: The Culture of Fraud in the NBA” would have launched in a few weeks, explorin ...
Digital Fictionaut and the Future of the Literary Journal By Jason Boog on Oct. 29, 2009 - 10:23 AM As literary journals and writers migrate online, it becomes more difficult to create a sense of community between readers in the vastness of cyberspace. Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was Jürgen Fauth, co-found ...
Awards Margaret Atwood Advises the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award Recipients By Jason Boog on Oct. 29, 2009 - 9:23 AM “Congratulations to all ten of you. I’ll put you all in my blog.” author Margaret Atwood told the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award recipients last night. She delivered some droll advice for the winners: “W ...
Book Biz Mary Grey James Joins East/West Literary Agency By Jason Boog on Oct. 29, 2009 - 8:23 AM The East/West Literary Agency hired former Ingram Book Company lead book buyer Mary Grey James as a partner literary agent yesterday. James (pictured, via) has spent more than 30 years in publishing, managing children’s and ...