Sponsored Content Bringing Back Bond By Carmen on Aug. 31, 2005 - 1:00 PM Once upon a time, James Bond was just a speck in the mind of a former intelligence agent who decided to transmogrify his experiences into adventure fiction. Now of course, he’s a phenomenon, even a punch line. But Ian Flemin ...
Awards Working the monkeys overtime By Carmen on Aug. 31, 2005 - 10:30 AM I already mocked this mercilessly at my own blog a couple of months back, but with Library Journal trying to coax its member librarians into vying for the 25 grand offered to them, it bears repeating: Are you a librarian who loves ...
Publishing Sometimes, it’s really not just a game By Carmen on Aug. 31, 2005 - 10:10 AM Agent 007 muses on the concept of “fantasy publishing” and why sure things, though great for the career and pocketbook, get boring after a while: Winning when you knew you were going to win all along is Boring with a c ...
Digital Whether this catches on is another story By Carmen on Aug. 31, 2005 - 9:00 AM Tony Broadbent’s second crime novel, SPECTER IN THE SMOKE, will be out at the end of the year from St. Martin’s Press. It’s been a few years since his debut and naturally, he’s trying to find new ways to pr ...
Revolving Door Janson-Smith gone from Transworld By Carmen on Aug. 31, 2005 - 7:34 AM Patrick Janson-Smith, the longtime publisher of Transworld, is ditching the company for the Christopher Little Literary Agency: At Transworld Janson-Smith has worked with authors such as Bill Bryson, Jilly Cooper, Terry Pratchett ...
Authors Humiliation: it’s not just a drinking game anymore By Carmen on Aug. 30, 2005 - 12:30 PM Last week, Tess Gerristen described the singular pleasure of trudging through big box bookstores to sign copies of her new thriller, VANISH, and getting shot down left and right: Store visit #2(to another national bookstore chain) ...
Reviews Book review editors speak out By Carmen on Aug. 30, 2005 - 12:00 PM Over at The Book Standard, Adam Langer assembles a motley crew of newspaper book editors to talk about — oh, the usual stuff: how many books they get a week, how many get ignored, and what they really, really don’t wan ...
Book Biz The frustrations of publicity By Carmen on Aug. 30, 2005 - 10:30 AM Independent publicist Susan Schwartzman has started blogging – probably the first in her profession book publicist to do so, to the best of my knowledge — and describes some of the pitfalls that can flummox even the be ...
Book Biz The Gutter really is my new best friend By Carmen on Aug. 30, 2005 - 10:00 AM Or Publishers Marketplace is trying to mess with my head, as they’ve managed to top yesterday’s howler of a deal: Kit Whitfield’s BAREBACK, presenting a society as civilized as our own — with the difference ...
Book Biz Rejection Collection By Carmen on Aug. 30, 2005 - 9:30 AM Things recently noted on the whole writer/agent editor spectrum: Just because you think you have a novel inside you, doesn’t mean you should inflict others with it. (link from Bookninja.) Want to know how to get an agent to ...