Resources So How’d Your NaNoWriMo Go? By Neal on Nov. 30, 2009 - 10:59 PM As this year’s National Novel Writing Month reaches its conclusion, we wanted to spotlight some advice that you may find helpful right about now. “You’re not really done,” observes Justine Larbalestier. ...
Libraries A Librarian’s Call for Help By Jeff Rivera on Nov. 30, 2009 - 6:01 PM Librarian, Maria Medrano-Nehls never knew her life would turn out this way. She had been through many challenges in her life before but had always kept a positive attitude. But lately, it has taken every ounce of faith and the pra ...
Bookselling Barnes & Noble’s Nook on eBay By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2009 - 4:23 PM More than fifty copies of Barnes & Noble’s Nook digital reader have surfaced on eBay recently. As of this writing, the cheapest bid rests at $101.01 and the most expensive bid stands at $575.00–$316 more than the l ...
Bookselling Cyber Monday Drives Amazon Stock to Record Heights By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2009 - 3:23 PM As Internet users flocked to Amazon.com (AMZN) on Cyber Monday (the web-based alternative to Black Friday shopping), the stock price at the online bookseller has jumped dramatically. UPDATE: As of 4 p.m., the stock price sat at $1 ...
Book Biz Garry Trudeau Bashes Twitter Lit in Comic Strip By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2009 - 2:23 PM In his Sunday Doonesbury comic, cartoonist Garry Trudeau (pictured) satirized the Twitter book deals (and referenced his own Twitter satire book) that have inspired both fascination and irritation in the publishing world. In the s ...
Videos Quirk Screens Book Trailer in Theaters By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2009 - 12:23 PM Quirk Books will bring a 30-second version of the “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters” book trailer (embedded above) to televisions and multiplexes around the country–picking one theater in a number of carefu ...
Sponsored Content Zondervan Pulls “Kung Fu” Christianity Guide By Neal on Nov. 30, 2009 - 11:33 AM Two years ago, Mike Foster and Jud Wilhite published a book called Deadly Viper: Character Assassins, “a kung fu inspired book on leadership integrity” that did well enough to attract the attention of Zondervan (the Ch ...
Book Biz NPR’s Charlie Schroeder Sells Book about Re-Enactors By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2009 - 11:23 AM As real wars boil around the world, NPR producer and contributor Charlie Schroeder will write about the people obsessed with old wars–re-enacting 15 different historical wars alongside hobbyists in a new book. Schroeder just ...
Adaptation Is Team Edward Enabling Domestic Violence? By Neal on Nov. 30, 2009 - 10:51 AM For at least a year now, we’ve been hearing complaints about Stephenie Meyer‘s Twilight series and how creepy the relationship between Bella and Edward is—keeping in mind that while Edward looks like a teenager, ...
Trends Rick Moody Tweets Story for Electric Literature By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2009 - 10:23 AM A few minutes ago, the literary journal Electric Literature launched a “microserialization” experiment by publishing a new story by Rick Moody on Twitter. Entitled “Some Contemporary Characters,” Moody (pic ...