Authors Freywatch: Not Happening in the UK By Carmen on Jan. 26, 2006 - 9:02 AM To add to Ron’s sea of questions, here’s another: what’s the response to Freygate going to be in other countries where his books are published? Well, at least in Britain, the attitude seems to be to bury their co ...
Awards Patrick O’Keeffe Wins Story Prize By Neal on Jan. 26, 2006 - 8:59 AM The ceremony for the second annual Story Prize was held at the New School Auditorium last night, with all three nominees—Jim Harrison, Maureen McHugh, and Patrick O’Keeffe—on hand to read from their nominated wor ...
Book Biz One More JT LeRoy Item, Because We Can By Neal on Jan. 26, 2006 - 8:58 AM As pointed out to us by an anonymous tipster, JT LeRoy’s PEN membership was renewed sometime between September 2004 and September 2005. Random amusing question: Did “LeRoy” ever go to any PEN meetings/readings, a ...
Trends Will the misery memoir just go away already? By Carmen on Jan. 26, 2006 - 8:52 AM The other extreme irony about James Frey’s UK publisher claiming that the whole fabrication controversy “isn’t a story” is that in actuality, it could be a bigger story there than here. Why? The raging succ ...
Revolving Door 2nd Borders Exec Announces Departure By Neal on Jan. 26, 2006 - 8:49 AM No sooner had the ink dried on the press release on Borders CEO Greg Josefowicz’s impending retirement than the news was bandied about that senior executive Mike Spinozzi was leaving even sooner. Spinozzi, who was just nine ...
Publishing The biographer as detective By Carmen on Jan. 26, 2006 - 8:47 AM Fresh from winning the overall Whitbread award, Hilary Spurling explains to the Guardian why she kept on a 15-year odyssey to chronicle the life and times of painter Henri Matisse, even if it felt like falling down a rabbit hole a ...
Reviews Whither Canadian Publishing? By Carmen on Jan. 26, 2006 - 8:39 AM Stephen Henigan, writing for Geist Magazine, wonders if the current state of Canadian publishing will lead to complete destruction of the industry: One agent asked me where I wanted to be in twenty years’ time. When I falter ...
Book Biz From agent to author By Carmen on Jan. 26, 2006 - 8:31 AM Jonny Geller is well-known in the UK for getting his clients (including Michael Marshall Smith, Anna Maxted and Adele Park) some seriously big deals. But now, as the Bookseller reports, the Curtis Brown agent has gone and got one ...
Bookselling Dog Days Honeymoon Already Over? By Neal on Jan. 25, 2006 - 3:41 PM An anonymous tipster wrote in a couple days ago, expressing surprise that Ana Marie Cox’s Dog Days had failed to make the NYT bestseller list, considering all the free publicity the paper gave her. So I dashed off a request ...
Revolving Door Kloske to Riverhead By Carmen on Jan. 25, 2006 - 12:03 PM Well, talk about a jaw-dropping announcement. Publishers Lunch reports that effective February 13, Geoff Kloske will leave his job as executive editor of Simon & Schuster for Riverhead, where as publisher of the imprint heR ...