Adaptation It Was An Experiment, And You Were Part of It By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 8:00 AM Over at mediabistro.com’s UnBeige blog, Alissa Walker has a story on the 1000 Journals movie, which is set to premiere at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles this weekend. The film is based on the 1000journals.com project, which was ...
Book Bix Your Sobering Industry Evaluation for the Morning By Neal on Oct. 31, 2007 - 7:40 AM An anonymous GalleyCat reader feels that this blog paints too rosy a picture of the publishing industry, and has plenty to say on the subject. “Many of the books that my house paid big money for have gone to the remainder bi ...
Digital Here’s A Crime Reporter With a Real Inside Scoop By Neal on Oct. 30, 2007 - 3:13 PM (Warning: Although safe for work, this trailer discusses crimes of a violent and quasi-sexual nature.) John Leake‘s Entering Hades is probably more along the lines of Sarah’s expertise, from when she was sharing the Ga ...
Bookselling Checking Out the New Kinokuniya By Neal on Oct. 30, 2007 - 11:44 AM After reading Motoko Rich‘s NYT story on the opening of Kinokuniya‘s newest midtown branch, I decided to visit the Japanese bookstore over the weekend, especially eager to check out their manga section (seen at left). ...
Awards Story Prize Judges for 2007 Announced By Neal on Oct. 30, 2007 - 10:43 AM You may recall that I was a judge in last year’s Story Prize competition, which awards $20,000 to the author of the best short story collection published in the U.S. The judges for this year’s prize have been announced ...
Events Scene @ the CLMP Spelling Bee By Neal on Oct. 30, 2007 - 9:50 AM I actually felt pretty good about my chances going into “To Bee or Not to Bee,” the annual spelling bee fundraiser for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. I had a great cheering section: My former Notre Dame ...
Book Biz “Trick Lit”: Is There Really Any Out There? By Neal on Oct. 30, 2007 - 8:05 AM Seth Godin recently coined the term “trick lit” to describe what he calls “a chick lit novel that pretends to be something else, hoping to rope people in with an interesting premise. 30 pages later, you discover ...
Book Bix The Book Trailer We Can’t Show You at Work By Neal on Oct. 30, 2007 - 8:00 AM M.M. De Voe tipped me off yesterday to a video I think has to set a new benchmark in the book trailer genre… a benchmark for crassness, that is. It’s the eight-minute promotional video for Jay Nussbaum’s new nove ...
Editors No More Editing for Jason Pinter, Only Writing By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 3:29 PM It’s been quite a year for Jason Pinter: He’s been fired from Crown for blogging about his job, then snapped up by St. Martin’s Press later, and then he had his first novel, The Mark, come out from Mira at some p ...
Book Biz NYT ‘s Last Ditch Effort to Recloset Dumbledore By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 11:09 AM NYT cultural critic Edward Rothstein finally catches up to J.K. Rowling‘s revelations about Dumbledore’s sexuality, and authorial intentions be damned: “It is possible that Ms. Rowling may be mistaken about her o ...