Sponsored Content Britney’s Mom Sold a Parenting Memoir? By Neal on Oct. 25, 2007 - 12:41 PM Oh, this ought to be good: According to the deal database at Publishers Lunch, Lynne Spears has signed up with Thomas Nelson for a memoir about “raising high-profile children” (Britney and Jamie-Lynn Spears) “whi ...
Publishing “Make Something Worth Paying For” By Neal on Oct. 25, 2007 - 12:13 PM I came across a post from Seth Godin this morning that crystallized some of my thoughts on the whole problem of getting people to buy more literary fiction, particularly the debate hosted by Levi Asher at Literary Kicks over wheth ...
Publishing Univ. of Michigan To Keep Distributing UK Press Critical of Israel By Neal on Oct. 25, 2007 - 11:41 AM Inside Higher Ed has a story on the decision by the University of Michigan Press to continue distributing books by Pluto Press, a London-based leftist imprint that published Overcoming Zionism, “which argues that the creatio ...
Awards 1st Man Asian Literary Shortlist Unveiled By Neal on Oct. 25, 2007 - 11:30 AM The hubbub over this year’s Booker Prize has only just died down, but the Man Group is at it again, this time launching a literary prize on the other side of the world. The shortlist for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Priz ...
Book Bix Too Mean? Some Find Book Reviewers Overprotective By Neal on Oct. 25, 2007 - 10:36 AM Yesterday, I asked you how critical book reviewers should get, and at least one person on the mediabistro.com discussion board thinks that things among the literati have gotten a little too cozy. “GraceVictoria” says t ...
Book Biz Two Developments at One Story By Neal on Oct. 25, 2007 - 10:09 AM I’ve been meaning to take a look at the revamped One Story website for a while now, and their “Save the Short Story” campaign finally lured me in. (At my other blog, Beatrice, I get to more fully indulge my enthu ...
Reviews More in Book Reviewer Gaffes, Biblical Division By Neal on Oct. 24, 2007 - 3:36 PM All the recent talk of nonexistent bodies in the freezer reminded Wendy McClure of another recent incident where the reviewer’s facts weren’t in order, and as she notes, “this is the only one with a CUTE ANTHROPR ...
Publishing Who Shows Authors Rejected Proposals, Anyway? By Neal on Oct. 24, 2007 - 3:04 PM As I was ruminating yesterday on the controversy over Jessica Seinfeld‘s cookbook, particulaly since I was hearing some grumbles that whatever Perseus CEO David Steinberger is saying publicly about not considering legal acti ...
Authors We Should All Have Such Friends By Neal on Oct. 24, 2007 - 2:42 PM Bestselling “dark fantasy” writer Kim Harrison, in a guest appearance at the WIPs and Chains* blog of romance author Heidi Betts, explains how she wound up with Richard Curtis as a literary agent: “Several years ...
Publishing Publishers Clean Up As Tech Companies Duke It Out? By Neal on Oct. 24, 2007 - 12:43 PM Evan Schnittman, the vice president of business development at Oxford University Press, comes back from the Frankfurt Book Fair with some thoughts on three aspects of the publishing industry he says will be affected by the embrace ...