People Natural Causes And Other Stories by Gary McLouth By Jeff Rivera on Nov. 26, 2009 - 7:30 AM Today’s Featured Book of the Day is Natural Causes and Other Stories by Gary McLouth. McLouth has written a book of short stories about people living in upstate New York. They are linked to one another by their common intent ...
Videos Meet the Dogs of Brooklyn By Jason Boog on Nov. 25, 2009 - 4:23 PM From John Grogan’s “Marley and Me” to Mark Doty’s “Dog Years,” man’s best friend has served as a literary muse for years. One poet has added a New York City twist to this canine canon. A f ...
Bookselling Washington Post Mounts Books Experiment with Amazon By Jason Boog on Nov. 25, 2009 - 3:23 PM The Washington Post‘s business development unit just unveiled a new experiment–allowing readers to purchase books mentioned in the paper’s book coverage via Amazon.com’s (AMZN) Amazon Associates program. Bo ...
Book Biz Author Braves Thanksgiving Madness for Airport Book Signing By Jason Boog on Nov. 25, 2009 - 2:23 PM Today Democracy Now! host and author Amy Goodman took her book tour straight to the holiday traveler crowd–signing books at Borders Bookstore in the Main Terminal of the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Goodman is touring to promote ...
Events You Oughta Know How to Make Kale Salad By Neal on Nov. 25, 2009 - 1:19 PM Yes, that’s Alanis Morisette digging into a mixing bowl full of kale, as vegetarian cookbook author Anna Thomas looks on. Morissette recently hosted a party for Thomas’s Love Soup (which features 160 vegetarian recipes ...
Book Biz Search Optimization Tools for Book Publicity By Jason Boog on Nov. 25, 2009 - 12:23 PM Many writers never think about the simple ways they can improve their Google search-ability. Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was Isobella Jade, the petite model who wrote her memoir in an Apple Store–building a ...
Adaptation David Lynch Foundation Helps Filmmaker Adapt a New Yorker Short Story By Jason Boog on Nov. 25, 2009 - 11:23 AM A young filmmaker has adapted Tom Drury’s New Yorker short story, “Path Lights“–an excellent combination of Raymond Carver prose, hardboiled private detectives, and metafictional tricks. The film will first ...
Publishing Harlequin’s Lost Horizons: Self-Publishing Imprint Renamed By Neal on Nov. 25, 2009 - 11:00 AM After the controversy surrounding the launch of Harlequin‘s self-publishing partnership with AuthorSolutions—or, as most people dubbed it, Harlequin’s vanity press—the romance publishing behemoth has gone o ...
Trends Michael Wolff: “Literate people should boycott books” By Jason Boog on Nov. 25, 2009 - 10:23 AM Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff (pictured, via) chastised the publishing industry in a provocative column this week, suggesting that “literate people should boycott books” until publishers stop pushing celebrit ...
Book Biz Jonah Goldberg’s Million Dollar Book Deal By Jason Boog on Nov. 25, 2009 - 9:23 AM Following blockbuster books by Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, publishers are chasing conservative scribes. Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg has scored a reported one million dollar deal for his next book. Goldberg riled the blog ...