Authors Marketing Never Rests,Not Even @ 7th-Inning Stretch By Neal on Jun. 28, 2006 - 10:02 AM We hear that thriller writer (and hottie literati) Brad Thor was out at the ballpark last week, and had mentioned his career as a bestselling author to a new acquaintance sitting nearby. Meanwhile, a gaggle of teenage boys in the ...
Book Biz Microtrends – the new Freakonomics? By Carmen on Jun. 28, 2006 - 9:32 AM Hachette Book Group sent around a press release yesterday trumpeting Jonathan Karp‘s newest acquisition for his new imprint – which, oddly enough, is still called Warner Twelve (shouldn’t the name change be made ...
Publishing Freestone joins Quercus By Carmen on Jun. 28, 2006 - 8:08 AM After announcing her resignation from Hutchinson as its publishing director, Sue Freestone has decided her next move is to stay in the business – by joining Quercus as publisher of its independent trade division. The Booksel ...
Authors David Race Bannon, This Summer’s Fake Writer By Neal on Jun. 28, 2006 - 8:03 AM Sunday’s Charlotte Observer presented the story of David Race Bannon (left), who claimed in his memoir, Race Against Evil, that he’d been killing international child pornographers for Interpol…whereas in real lif ...
Authors Thriller writer turns sleuth – but letters still lost By Carmen on Jun. 28, 2006 - 7:39 AM Joan Brady turned to writing thrillers after winning the Whitbread for her first novel because of a real-life incident. But as the Oxford Times reports, now she has yet more criminally minded fodder after burglars made off with hu ...
Publishing Bertlesmann buys Portugal bookstore chain By Carmen on Jun. 28, 2006 - 7:22 AM Forbes reports that Bertelsmann – the parent company of Random House – announced that its book club division, Direct Group is buying Portugal’s largest book store chain Bertrand Livreiros (which employs 400 peopl ...
Events If We Could Go Out Tonight… By Neal on Jun. 27, 2006 - 12:51 PM …we’d probably be dropping in on the reading our former “literati hottie” Laura Dave is giving tonight at, of all places, the Bliss spa on 49th and Lex, where guests will be able to receive mini-treatments ...
Book Biz What’s next, a convening of Idiots? By Carmen on Jun. 27, 2006 - 10:00 AM Publishers Marketplace links to what, on the surface, seems like a rather hilarious idea: take all the people who have worked on those “X FOR DUMMIES” (where X = topic of your choice) and bring them together in one big ...
Bookselling Quick hits on bookstores By Carmen on Jun. 27, 2006 - 8:50 AM Gannett News Service reports on how bookstores in what’s essentially the middle of nowhere – like Soldier, Iowa, population 207 – are thriving thanks to a worldwide, Internet-based market. Verbatim Bookstores in ...
Trends Why Reality TV is a boon to UK publishers By Carmen on Jun. 27, 2006 - 8:38 AM Many of us knew that Britain was celebrity obsessed. But it seems to be careening out of control based on the money thrown at instant Reality TV stars. Or is it? Reuters checks in on the growth of the celebrity corner of publishin ...