Publishing Authors, Be Warned By Ethan on Sep. 5, 2008 - 9:02 AM I received this anonymous note from a reliable source about Morgan James Publishing and how their house works and thought I should share it with you if you’re considering print on demand. For the 2nd time this summer, I̵ ...
Book Biz Sarah Palin, Book Banner? By Ethan on Sep. 3, 2008 - 9:45 AM Just in time for ALA’s Banned Books Week later this month, Daily Kos just gave us a tip about the TIME magazine article on Presidential VP nominee Sarah Palin and how she tried to fire librarian Mary Ellen Baker for not bann ...
Publishing Catalog Season-St Martin’s Minotaur By Ethan on Aug. 20, 2008 - 4:29 PM Checking out the Fall 2008 St Martin’s/Minotaur catalog the stand out cover is November’s Once Were Cops in which Ken Bruen finally sets his signature hard-boiled style in NYC. Favorite title has to be Hark, The Herald ...
Publishing Drinking on the Job Poll- Recap By Ethan on Aug. 20, 2008 - 3:46 PM Amazingly almost 200 of you responded to our poll about drinking at work functions and calling in sick with a hangover with 50% of responders admitting to most of the above which includes being drunk at a work function and showing ...
Publishing Harcourt Publicity-Where Are They Now? By Ethan on Aug. 18, 2008 - 3:43 PM Back in May I reported on how Harcourt slashed their publicity department by 1/2 after their merge with Houghton. So, where are they now? Sarah Melnyk landed a gig as Senior Publicist at Minotaur Books where she was brought in to ...
Publishing Drinking on the Job By Ethan on Aug. 15, 2008 - 11:39 AM With the success of Chelsea Handler’s Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, I got to thinking how drinking and publishing go together like lunch and three martinis. This being Friday, I know a few of you have been ou ...
Publishing The Lace Reader’s Dirty Linen By Ethan on Aug. 14, 2008 - 9:14 AM The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry is currently number 7 on the New York Times best seller list but how did this originally self-published title that ended up selling to Morrow for 2.4 million make such a splash? Jocelyn Kelley fro ...
Resources Obama vs McCain By Ethan on Aug. 13, 2008 - 3:38 PM Two web to book humor titles tackle the candidates in their own way: 72 Things Younger than John McCain by Joe Quint coming out from Fireside August 26 and Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle: 366 Ways He Really Cares by Mathew Honan ...
Digital Gravitas By Ethan on Aug. 12, 2008 - 12:44 PM Internetreviewofbooks.com Editor-in-chief Carter Jefferson saw the Wasserman article I posted the other week and had the following insightful rebuttal to online reviewers and their “authority”: “Gravitas” i ...
Digital Get Your Geek On By Ethan on Aug. 12, 2008 - 9:37 AM Ummmm, okay, I hate to admit this but I’m sure some of you who know me suspected as much. No I’m not gay (contrary to popular belief and my affinity for wearing vests). I am in fact a geek (see also: Dork and Nerd). I ...