Publishing Quick Hits: Atlantic Re-Orgs, Mac/Cage Goes to PGW By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 10:32 AM ⇒London-based Atlantic Books announced a reorganization of its executive team, with several staffers getting a new job title or new responsibilities or both. Atlantic Found Toby Mundy is now the CEO and publisher; deputy man ...
Authors Diaz: Let’s See More Respect for Comics Writers By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 9:01 AM Junot Diaz‘s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is being applauded by book reviewers for merging literary ambitions with a slew of pop culture references, specifically from the sci-fi and comic book cultural spheres, so it ...
Comic Books How to Sell Comics to Mainstream Bookbuyers? By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 9:01 AM Occasional Superheroine blogger Valerie D’Orazio found herself browsing in a B&N comics section recently, and noticed that while manga took up more than half the space, superhero comics were confined to just 7 percent of ...
Authors Ride Shotgun With Greg Lindsay As He Writes His Book By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 9:00 AM Back in February, Greg Lindsay, a contributing at mediabistro.com’s FishbowlNY blog, landed a book deal with FSG as the co-author of Aerotropolis, a book about the giant airport-industrial complexes springing up all over the ...
Book Biz Talk About Your Exquisite Corpses: Mystery Writers Assemble Evidence on B&N Chat Board By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 8:55 AM Over at the “Crime Book Club” message boards on the Barnes & Noble website, Hard Case Crime publisher Charles Ardai has started up a round-robin hardboiled mystery called “Passing the Torch” with a guy ...
Bookselling Fup of Powell’s Technical Books, 1988-2007 By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 8:05 AM I was saddened over the weekend to read about the death of Fup, a 19-year-old cat who lived at Powell’s Technical Books in Portland, Oregon. “Fup was the matriarch of the Tech Store,” wrote assistant manager Ron ...
Digital Giving It Away in Bits and Pieces, With Blogger Middlemen By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 8:04 AM To promote Blogging Heroes, a collection of “interviews with 30 of the world’s top bloggers,” Michael Banks and Wiley are giving each of the book’s subjects the opportunity to publish a PDF file of their in ...
Digital Unsold Manuscripts Transformed into Marketing Giveaways By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 8:03 AM When I was hanging out with Melanie Lynne Hauser at a bar near the (downtown) Omaha Literary Festival last month, she told me about a new marketing idea that her husband was putting together, a destination website for free, downlo ...
Sponsored Content GalleyCat: Now With Equal Time for Dogs By Neal on Oct. 29, 2007 - 7:59 AM HarperCollins is going to publish a book from the folks at Dogfessions next summer—imagine PostSecret, but with dogs all over the place—and they’re looking for content. Here’s a 90-second video chock full o ...
Reviews For Reviewers, Reliable Is Better Than Nice By Neal on Oct. 26, 2007 - 9:34 AM Thanks to Keir Graff at the Booklist blog for noticing this week’s spate of posts on the negative waves that some people have noticed in book reviewing—and in rounding up my scattered thoughts on the subject, Graff pul ...