Sponsored Content This’ll Blow the Heartland’s Minds… By Neal on Dec. 22, 2006 - 8:16 AM In certain circles, The Voudon Gnostic Workbook of Michael Bertiaux is legendary, a 20th-century grimoire published in very limited editions, so nowadays copies on eBay sell for $180, sometimes even more. In the last decade, the t ...
Authors Donadio’s South African Adventure Continues By Neal on Dec. 22, 2006 - 8:02 AM Less than a month after a NYT magazine piece on post-apartheid fiction, Rachel Donadio comes up with an article for the NYTBR, posted online well ahead of its December 31 pub date, on the fight between Nadine Gordimer and her biog ...
Publishing Heroes & Villains of 2006 By Carmen on Dec. 22, 2006 - 7:39 AM The Independent’s Literator gives its list of who in publishing will get lovely presents over the holidays, and who deserves a lump of coal. Heroes include indie bookstores and publishing, Alison & Busby co-founder Marga ...
Bookselling More about Dutton’s closing By Carmen on Dec. 22, 2006 - 6:34 AM After the news broke yesterday that the Beverly Hills location of Dutton’s would be shutting down by year’s end, the bookstore issued a statement. Contrary to the city issued press release, “the community” ...
Book Biz What Awaits Publishing in 2007? By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2006 - 3:02 PM OJ. Judith Regan. James Frey. Nasdijj. Kaavya Viswanathan. All names you’ve no doubt heard plenty of in 2006 (and, in some cases, wish you hadn’t). But the year that was publishing in 2006 featured some other notable n ...
Authors Harry Potter VII Gets a Title By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2006 - 11:44 AM PW Daily reports that the final book in the Harry Potter series has been given a title: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, as per J.K. Rowling‘s website. Though a release date has not been announced, the name announcement ...
Publishing If She Said It… It Works For Her? By Neal on Dec. 21, 2006 - 11:22 AM Eat the Press has just posted an analysis of “Mezuza-Gate” that arrives at a provocative conclusion: if events really happened the way the HarperCollins leakers say they happened, it could actually help Regan’s l ...
Publishing For Judith Regan, Impossible is Nothing By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2006 - 10:29 AM As the ramifications of Judith Regan‘s firing reverberate throughout the publishing industry, many are left to wonder what will become of the imprint’s spring and summer seasons – as well as projects under contra ...
Revolving Door Dinitia Smith Leaves Full-Time Post at NYT By Carmen on Dec. 21, 2006 - 9:48 AM Word comes our way that Dinitia Smith, a cultural correspondent with the New York Times since 1995, left the position earlier this month. She will continue to write for the paper on a freelance basis but our understanding is that ...
Comic Books Dark Tower Looms on the Horizon By Neal on Dec. 21, 2006 - 9:33 AM Back when Sarah and I took over the ‘Cat, one of my earliest stories was the announcement of Stephen King‘s Dark Tower project for Marvel. Well, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born is just about ready to ship next February ...