Digital Friedman Pops the Hood on Open Road By Neal on Nov. 18, 2009 - 11:39 AM Yesterday afternoon, former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman came to the Center for Publishing, a division of NYU’s School for Continuing and Professional Studies, to talk about her new company, Open Road Integrated Media, wh ...
Authors James Othmer’s Agent Was No Clown… Yet By Neal on Nov. 18, 2009 - 10:35 AM We enjoy following James P. Othmer on his Twitter stream, so we were delighted to see that AgencySpy editor Matthew van Hoven posted an interview with the Adland author to mediabistro.com’s “So What Do You Do?” s ...
Book Biz Lost Symbol Out, Gathering Storm In By Neal on Nov. 10, 2009 - 8:00 AM Brandon Sanderson, the fantasy author handpicked to complete the late Robert Jordan‘s Wheel of Time series, chats with “Storm Leaders” and Tor employees at a reception in the Flatiron Building yesterday afternoon ...
Awards Pipkin’s Woodsburner Takes First Novel Prize By Neal on Nov. 10, 2009 - 12:19 AM The Center for Fiction presented its fourth annual First Novel Prize to John Pipkin for Woodsburner, a retelling of an incident in the life of young Henry David Thoreau, at a private ceremony last night in New York City. The other ...
Book Biz Sonny Mehta to Receive AAWW Lifetime Achievement Award By Neal on Nov. 9, 2009 - 10:17 AM The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is hosting “Page Turner,” its first all-day literary festival, this Saturday at Brooklyn’s powerHouse Arena—and on Friday night, the Workshop will present Sonny Me ...
Book Biz Sheila McClear’s Memoir (It’s Not About Gawker) By Neal on Nov. 5, 2009 - 10:31 AM In early 2008, we learned that Sheila McClear (left), then an editor at Gawker, was shopping a memoir about her brief career as a peep show dancer. This morning, we’re pleased to hear that the book, formerly titled Every Day ...
Book Biz eBook Publisher is ‘Ravenous’ for Your NaNoWriMo Output By Neal on Nov. 5, 2009 - 8:04 AM As National Novel Writing Month continues, Ravenous Romance editorial director Lori Perkins emails us that she’s willing to have a look at any completed manuscripts that come out of NaNoWriMo. “One of our writers told ...
Digital Let’s Talk eBook Royalties: First, What Should They Be? By Neal on Nov. 4, 2009 - 8:00 AM We know publishing companies aren’t always having the easiest time transitioning themselves into the eBook market, but we can offer one bit of advice without hesitation: Don’t, as one independent publisher recently did ...
Book Biz A NaNoWriMo Home Base for New Yorkers By Neal on Nov. 3, 2009 - 12:28 PM Yesterday, we shared some tips from a toolbox for National Novel Writing Month participants no matter where they may be—but here’s an opportunity of special significance to GalleyCat readers in the New York City area: ...
Digital Fourth Story: Alternative Reality Soap Operas for Teen Readers By Neal on Oct. 30, 2009 - 9:01 AM (Fourth Story Media CEO Lisa Holton looks on as creative development and marketing manager Ariel Aberg-Riger browses the Amanda Project website.) “I was thinking more and more about how we publish books and how we reach our ...