Publishing Kate Lee’s Big Week By Carmen on Oct. 19, 2005 - 3:00 PM Someday, perhaps when she’s risen enough in the ranks to make people forget all about Binky, Esther and Richard, Kate Lee won’t be known as the “Agent to the Bloggerati.” And in truth, checking over a listi ...
Book Biz Fruit-y Advice from Pagan Herbalist By Neal on Oct. 19, 2005 - 12:00 PM The press release for Lexa Roséan’s The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients is filled with herbal “prescriptions” for celebrities, ranging from the goofy-sounding (lime peels would help Kate Moss repel nega ...
Authors A Light on Piazza By Neal on Oct. 19, 2005 - 11:23 AM The Reuters article on how New Orleans writers are getting by is curious for what it doesn’t say about Tom Piazza. They mention the college reading tour organized for him by friends—which, in fact, brought him to the C ...
Authors A Million Little Edits By Neal on Oct. 19, 2005 - 10:55 AM A few weeks ago, mediabistro.com hosted an evening with the author/editor team behind Oprah’s new find, A Million Little Pieces, James Frey and Sean McDonald, where, among other things, Frey explained how they whittled a man ...
Bookselling Major Chains Take a 3Q Hit By Neal on Oct. 19, 2005 - 8:50 AM You’d have thought that the July release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince would have been a tremendous boon to America’s bookstores, but the way the market works, all those revenues were already applied to the ...
Revolving Door Quick, Everybody Change Desks! By Neal on Oct. 18, 2005 - 10:58 AM Michael Cader reports a slew of personnel moves in this morning’s Publishers Lunch, leading with Annik LaFarge’s imminent transfer from Crown to Bloomsbury, where beginning Nov. 15 she’ll take the title of publis ...
Book Biz And even more changes! By Carmen on Oct. 18, 2005 - 10:39 AM In what has to be considered the Frankfurt Square Dance… First, let’s go to St. Martin’s, where Monique Patterson is now a senior editor, Jennifer Enderlin becomes associate publisher for Griffin trade paperbacks ...
Reviews Time Provokes Bookish Arguments By Neal on Oct. 18, 2005 - 9:45 AM The “All-Time 100 Novels” is, so Time book critics Richard Lacayo and Lev Grossman (left) tell us, filled with the best English-language novels published since Henry Luce created the magazine back in 1923. As always, d ...
Awards Moody: “It’s a Good List” By Neal on Oct. 18, 2005 - 8:54 AM “I’ve got Halloween balls if anybody wants them,” Rick Moody called out from behind the microphone at Housing Works Café last night, dangling an orange mesh bag filled with chocolate. He was there to read fr ...
Digital Gaiman Tells MP3 Listeners: Burn, Baby, Burn By Neal on Oct. 18, 2005 - 8:53 AM BoingBoing highlights an open invitation from Neil Gaiman on the question of ripping audiobook MP3s, after a fan wondered if it was okay to check out the CD version of his former #1 bestseller, Anansi Boys, from her local library, ...