Publishing Design for Living by Penguin’s Paul Buckley By Carmen on Jul. 25, 2006 - 9:04 AM The folks at Hearhear.us chat with Penguin‘s executive art director in two parts, responsible for making sure those of us who wander into the bookstore come back with a Penguin book because of the eye-catching covers he desi ...
Publishing Thank God I’m an Easy Mark By Neal on Jul. 25, 2006 - 8:53 AM Bookburger warns us about a new outfit called Thank God I… Enterprises that aims to publish thematic collections of inspirational stories following the Chicken Soup for the Soul model. That sounds reasonable enough at first, ...
Revolving Door Peter Field named new boss of Penguin UK By Carmen on Jul. 25, 2006 - 8:28 AM The Bookseller’s Alison Bone reports that Peter Field, who currently runs Pearson and Penguin in Australia, will add chief executive of Penguin UK to his responsibilities starting in November. He is taking over responsibilit ...
Digital TED’s Excellent Adventure By Neal on Jul. 25, 2006 - 8:00 AM One of the favorite elements of my RSS feed in recent weeks has been the TEDblog, a website associated with the annual conference on technology, entertainment, and design where major players like Al Gore and Tony Robbins rub shoul ...
Authors Elif Shafak wages battle for literature By Carmen on Jul. 25, 2006 - 7:27 AM Bestselling Turkish writer Elif Shafak finds herself in a similar situation as what plagued Orhan Pamuk earlier this year. She’s on trial in her native Turkey for the dubious crime of “insulting Turkishness,” and ...
Publishing British government crackdown on memoirs By Carmen on Jul. 25, 2006 - 6:18 AM The BBC reports that after a spate of tell-all memoirs by civil servants (especially Christopher Meyer‘s DC CONFIDENTIAL) the government has had enough – and is imposing stricter controls on what they can reveal to the ...
Authors Only one thing to say about Jared Paul Stern’s book proposal By Carmen on Jul. 24, 2006 - 4:16 PM Sorry, JPS, but the stats don’t lie.
Revolving Door Andre Bernard exits Harcourt By Carmen on Jul. 24, 2006 - 2:42 PM PW Daily’s Rachel Deahl reports that Andre Bernard, who spent the last decade as vice president and publisher of Harcourt, is stepping down. Effective next week, he’ll be working for the Guggenheim Foundation (which pr ...
Publishing Backspace is the writer’s place By Carmen on Jul. 24, 2006 - 11:19 AM While Ron was gallivanting around the halls of San Diego Comic Con, his fellow GalleyCat was part of a high-powered group of writers, agents, editors in the midst of education, advice and of course, schmoozing. The 2nd annual Back ...
Comic Books mediabistro.com’s Mini-Summit @ Comic-Con By Neal on Jul. 24, 2006 - 11:09 AM Who would’ve thought that I’d run into Unbeige blogger Alissa Walker at Comic-Con? Alissa introduced herself after my panel on blogging about the comics industry, and told me about how she’d come down from Los An ...