Publishing Poaching: it’s an industry state of mind By Carmen on Mar. 31, 2006 - 10:05 AM The Bookseller’s flagship feature this week talks about the different ways someone can be poached: an agent steals away a client, an author decides to move to a new publisher, or something in between. In truth, I always thou ...
Authors The Fashion Industry’s James Frey By Carmen on Mar. 31, 2006 - 9:12 AM When Emily Davies, a former fashion correspondent with the Times of London, inked a very, very significant deal (rumored to be up to $900,000 for US rights alone) for her memoir HOW TO WEAR BLACK last December, naturally it made p ...
Authors “Mount Everest: Forbidding, Aloof, Terrifying…” By Neal on Mar. 31, 2006 - 8:59 AM How do you get American media outlets to run an AP dispatch about British education reform? Toss some government money Michael Palin’s way—indirectly, I mean, because what’s really happening is that as part of th ...
Publishing The Little Poetry Publisher That Could? By Neal on Mar. 31, 2006 - 8:58 AM On the eve of National Poetry Month, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer profile of Copper Canyon Press recognizes the Pacific Northwest publisher’s emerging dominant role in contemporary American verse, beginning with the fact tha ...
Publishing GalleyCats Making the Rounds By Neal on Mar. 31, 2006 - 8:57 AM Sarah told you a little bit about the publishing roundtable she took part in the other night, but Levi Asher of Literary Kicks was sitting in the audience, and files an eyewitness account that makes Sarah sound much more cold-hear ...
Publishing Wottakar’s: the news sinks in By Carmen on Mar. 31, 2006 - 8:40 AM Now that the Competition Commission has essentially given the go-ahead for HMV to buy Ottakar’s — merging Waterstone’s and Ottakar’s in unholy matrimony – reactions from the publishing world are very ...
Authors For Whom the Bell Tolls By Neal on Mar. 31, 2006 - 8:13 AM At first, with obituaries for Chinese historian Denis Twitchett and Californian cuisine chronicler Doris Muscatine appearing on the NYT website yesterday, and with both being 80, I was going to say it was a bad day to be an octoge ...
Authors She may not read, but now she’ll write By Carmen on Mar. 31, 2006 - 7:22 AM Remember the brouhaha when Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham announced she’d never read a book (or at least hadn’t finished one in years?) Well that deficiency isn’t stopping her from her newest project & ...
Sponsored Content My Friend Leonard Officially a Novel? By Neal on Mar. 30, 2006 - 10:23 AM So a little bird in the book biz told us about a meeting with a Penguin sales rep in which, so the claim goes, it was revealed that the paperback edition of James Frey’s My Friend Leonard, coming out at the end of May, has b ...
Book Biz Galleycat Social Diary By Carmen on Mar. 30, 2006 - 9:41 AM That’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion…OK, maybe not, but I did have lunch @ Michael’s yesterday (along with MB Editorial Director Dorian Benkoil) where, aside from failing to recognize most of the media ...