Trends A double dose of Danuta Kean By Carmen on Sep. 25, 2006 - 6:15 AM Danuta Kean, one of the UK’s leading publishing reporters isn’t really as prolific as I think she is, but she’s got two enticing feature stories appearing around the same time. The Independent publishers her acco ...
Book Biz A Shameless Bid for Your (Blurby) Affections By Neal on Sep. 22, 2006 - 10:39 AM As Sarah and I close out our first year at GalleyCat (has it really been a year already?), we’d like to warm our publishers’ hearts by convincing them that publishing insiders really do read the blog every morning. So ...
Publishing THE THIRTEENTH TALE takes bestseller lists by storm By Carmen on Sep. 22, 2006 - 9:01 AM A few days ago, I wound up in conversation with another publishing insider wondering why no new book had really “hit” in terms of making lists or selling copies in a huge, splashy way. Well, looks like we have our answ ...
Digital GalleyCat vs. Intern Alexis:Because You Demanded It! By Neal on Sep. 22, 2006 - 9:00 AM Earlier this week, we asked GalleyCat readers to help us pick an archnemesis who could deliver a huge audience when he or she published an article about how upset our scorn made him or her feel and everybody surfed over here to se ...
Bookselling The curious incident of the bestseller on Amazon UK By Carmen on Sep. 22, 2006 - 8:01 AM When I first saw Catherine Boyle‘s piece today in the Guardian, I wondered – is this for real? But lo and behold, I check Amazon UK‘s bestseller list and the Institute of Electrical Engineers On Site Guide does i ...
Events Scene @ Cancer Vixen Book Party By Neal on Sep. 22, 2006 - 8:00 AM Knopf chairman Sonny Mehta introduces author/illustrator Marisa Acocella Marchetto at the party celebrating the publication of Cancer Vixen, Marchetto’s “graphic memoir” of dealing with her breast cancer diagnosi ...
Revolving Door MacLehose joins Quercus for literary translation imprint By Carmen on Sep. 22, 2006 - 7:48 AM Publishing News reports that Christopher MacLehose, who up until July had been chief overseer of Harvill (known for devoting much of its energis to literature and crime fiction in translation) has moved over to Quercus, helmed by ...
Events Scene @ Lee Montgomery’s Book Party By Neal on Sep. 22, 2006 - 7:38 AM Lee Montgomery (center) greets Wylie O’Sullivan (right), her editor at the Free Press, and her cousin (Montgomery’s, that is) Christine at the party celebrating the publication of Montgomery’s memoir, The Things ...
Awards awards, briefly By Carmen on Sep. 22, 2006 - 7:21 AM The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction has announced the five first novels shortlisted for the 2006 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner (Little Brown) The Dissident by Nell Fr ...
Events Scene @ Joseph Stiglitz’s Book Party By Neal on Sep. 22, 2006 - 7:07 AM Nobel-winning economist and former World Bank executive Joseph Stiglitz signs copies of Making Globalization Work in front of a painting in Hiroshi Senju’s “Falling Color” series at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery We ...