Book Biz HarperCollins to Adopt Dog Novel for $1.2M? By Neal on Jun. 29, 2007 - 4:00 PM Looks like the auction for Garth Stein‘s new novel may have gone quite well indeed: Before checking out for the weekend, the Vulture bloggers intimated that HarperCollins is paying $1.2 million for what’s been describe ...
Events Scene @ Saira Rao’s Chambermaid Party By Neal on Jun. 29, 2007 - 3:45 PM While Sarah and I were holding the fort at the first GalleyCat book swap Tuesday night, mediabistro.com chief Laurel Touby ventured uptown for a party celebrating the publication of Chambermaid, a Devil Wears Prada for the judicia ...
Resources Yet Another Book Trailer Big Battle! By Neal on Jun. 29, 2007 - 12:02 PM This week: Wacky Renaissance comedy that breaks the fourth wall, a Da Vinci Code chaser, and avant-garde filmmaking with Latin subtitles! Leonardo’s Shadow, Christopher Grey: Tree of Life, Chris Loveway Let’s Pretend W ...
Authors Ellison, Fantagraphics Agree to Play Nice By Neal on Jun. 29, 2007 - 12:00 PM Science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison‘s defamation lawsuit against Fantagraphics Books was resolved yesterday. According to an email sent out by Fantagraphics head Gary Groth, “the parties are not at liberty to discuss ...
Book Biz McCafferty Enlists Darling Fans for Promotion By Neal on Jun. 29, 2007 - 11:54 AM If you’ve ever watched a book trailer and said “I could do that,” now’s your big chance: Megan McCafferty is inviting fans to create a video that summarizes the plotlines of Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, ...
Sponsored Content UK’s New PM Takes Cue from JFK By Neal on Jun. 29, 2007 - 11:28 AM Britain’s new prime minister, Gordon Brown (left), has just landed an American book deal for Courage: Eight Portraits, as Weinstein Books picks up the U.S. rights from Bloomsbury, who published the book just before Brown, th ...
Reviews Can You Hear the Readers Sing? By Neal on Jun. 29, 2007 - 10:38 AM We told you earlier this week about Sandy Dijkstra‘s saber-rattling at San Diego Union-Tribune management over the paper’s plans to eliminate a stand-alone book review section and fold literary coverage into the Sunday ...
Digital The Online Buzz That Blurs Reality By Neal on Jun. 29, 2007 - 8:27 AM I’ll admit it: If you tell me there’s a website that carries the fictional world of a novel over into the real-life Internet, I’m probably going to take a look. Like the MySpace page for the band Metal Assassin, ...
Book Biz This Headline Has the Word Autochthonous By Neal on Jun. 28, 2007 - 1:03 PM “I’ve always looked to see what the winning word for the national bee was,” says Electric Velocipede editor John Klima, “and when ‘autochthonous’ won a few years ago, I felt like I had to do som ...
Book Biz From a University Press Catalog to Random House’s Book Club Roster By Neal on Jun. 28, 2007 - 12:52 PM Random House editor Judy Sternlight has a lot of international contacts—in addition to commissioning and acquiring translations for the Modern Library, she tracks down reprint possibilities for Random. So when she spotted Ab ...