Authors Leftovers for the Weekend By Neal on Nov. 24, 2006 - 12:17 AM On the off chance that anybody’s bothering to surf the web today—don’t you people know there’s sales going on out there?—here’s a few recent interviews to keep you entertained until Sarah and I ...
Book Biz A Very Happy Thanksgiving By Carmen on Nov. 22, 2006 - 2:32 PM A little over a year into our stint as your hosts here at GalleyCat, Ron and I have much to be thankful for. Most of all, we’re ever grateful for your continued readership, which has nearly quadrupled since we took the reins ...
Events Pencil Us In Your Holiday Calendar Now! By Neal on Nov. 22, 2006 - 2:17 PM The ‘Cat is throwing a holiday party, on December 13th at the popular Lower East Side bar Lolita (we know it’s a great place to party because that’s where I threw my book party last year). Our special guests for ...
Book Biz Martell Agency Picks Up Finke’s Ovitz Bio By Neal on Nov. 22, 2006 - 12:05 PM EXCLUSIVE: Nikki Finke let us know that no sooner had her book deal with Twelve evaporated than the mauscript for the Mike Ovitz bio The Man Who Wanted Everything was on its way to a new agent, Alice Martell, who read the pages Mo ...
Authors OJ’s Ghostwriter Has History With Regan By Neal on Nov. 22, 2006 - 12:01 PM As Rebecca Dana writes in today’s excellent NY Observer piece on the If I Did It backstory, and was first mentioned late last week by NYDN reporter Michelle Caruso, Pablo Fenjves (right) is the guy who wrote If I Did It, whi ...
Publishing So how do you solve a problem like Judith, anyway? By Carmen on Nov. 22, 2006 - 12:01 PM Wait, this story’s not over yet? The turkey’s not yet in the oven? But indeed, there are some last huffing gasps of the OJ book deal debacle, centering on one particular issue: what will Judith Regan do now? As the New ...
Book Biz Nice, Nice, Very Nice: Shields Takes Up Vonnegut By Neal on Nov. 22, 2006 - 11:42 AM If you remember Mockingbird, the great biography of Harper Lee that Charles Shields wrote earlier this year, you’ll be glad to hear that the author has plunged into the research for his next project, which, he explains at Ma ...
Book Biz Pope Benedict to publish first book By Carmen on Nov. 22, 2006 - 10:21 AM The man formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – now Pope Benedict – has finished the first volume of a book on the life of Jesus Christ and has decided to publish what he has written so far because he doesn’ ...
Awards Borders Announces Original Voices Nominees By Neal on Nov. 22, 2006 - 9:02 AM Borders named the nominees for this year’s Original Voices awards, recognizing a batch of “new and promising talent whose work our home office and store employees found compelling this past year,” as senior VP Bi ...
Bookselling Strike Up The World’s Smallest Violin By Neal on Nov. 22, 2006 - 8:12 AM The latest spin on HarperCollins’s decision not to publish If I Did It? How does this hurt the bookstores? The Associated Press is suggesting that what with all the pre-orders at online retailers like Amazon.com and Barnes & ...