Book Biz Happy New Year! By Carmen on Dec. 30, 2005 - 2:25 PM Well that’s it from Galleycat HQ, and we hope that 2006 brings forth everything you’ve always dreamed of – a book deal, a promotion, new innovations, exciting controversies, and of course, lots of bestsellers. So ...
Trends Beat Safire at his own game By Carmen on Dec. 30, 2005 - 8:47 AM As part of Op-ed columnist William Safire’s end-of-year column, he asks would-be trivialists to guess which books will be the “sleeper hits” on the fiction and non-fiction side: 5. Nonfiction sleeper best seller ...
Comic Books The Devil Girl Made Him Do It By Neal on Dec. 30, 2005 - 8:07 AM Well, we know Robert Crumb won’t be joining the ranks of Amazon-hosted bloggers any time soon. Crumb’s suing the online retailer for copyright infringement over an incident that happened a few years back, reports LAT s ...
Book Biz Have Authorblogs Become Corporate Shills? By Neal on Dec. 29, 2005 - 9:09 AM You’ll recall the news earlier this week of Amazon’s author blogs. They have not, it seems, been met with universal enthusiasm. Edward Champion compares the early online efforts of writers like Meg Wolitzer to “S ...
Trends History dead; politics still ticking By Carmen on Dec. 29, 2005 - 8:49 AM Literary agent Natasha Fairweather begins her commentary for the Telegraph with a bit of a kvetch, bemoaning the fact that history — you know, those mammoth Tudor biographies and history heartthrobs getting mobbed in Waterst ...
Publishing And now, no one will try to eat the book By Carmen on Dec. 29, 2005 - 8:32 AM When I first wrote about the lawsuit Hershey Foods & co. had launched against Simon & Schuster for alleged trademark infringement, I couldn’t help thinking of one particular piece in one of my all-time favorite books ...
Book Bix Keep those New Year’s Resolutions Comin’ By Carmen on Dec. 29, 2005 - 8:24 AM And several of you have done quite nicely. First up is Tara McCarthy, author of LOVE WILL TEAR US APART: I resolve to never let the words ‘chick lit’ come out of my mouth in 2006. I may even start some kind of web-base ...
Authors Reclusive Rocker Creates Own Legend of Zelda By Neal on Dec. 29, 2005 - 8:19 AM The AP’s John Rogers chats with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter about his first novel, Doppelganger. “Hunter is loath to describe it in detail before publication,” says Rogers, “except to note that it ...
Bookselling Someone Forgot the Customer’s Always Right By Neal on Dec. 29, 2005 - 8:06 AM A few bookblogs have picked up on the story of “Donny B.,” who was fired from a cookware store in Chicago after blogging about an in-store appearance by Rachael Ray (left). “You’d think it was Nicole Kidman ...
Book Bix Further University Press Recommendations By Neal on Dec. 28, 2005 - 11:43 AM Over at the Talking Points Memo blog, Josh Marshall strongly recommends Peter Heather’s The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, published earlier this month by Oxford University Press. And con ...