Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: March By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 9:00 AM ⇒I discovered this job will probably give me deep vein thrombosis. Great. ⇒Marvel Comics announced the death of Captain America, and they swore they meant it. Well, they meant that the guy who was in the costume was de ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: Feburary By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 9:00 AM ⇒Maureen Dowd discovered chick lit, and she really, really hated it, in that superficial way she has of hating things. Chick lit writers found her vapid, not to mention lazy, late, and lackluster. ⇒The total lack of re ...
Book Biz The Year in GalleyCat: January By Neal on Dec. 31, 2007 - 9:00 AM Over the weekend, I had a hunch today might be a slow publishing news day, and all those bowl games aren’t going to watch themselves, so I dug into the archives and pulled out some of my favorite posts among the hundreds I w ...
Adaptation Three Movie Trailers for the Weekend By Neal on Dec. 28, 2007 - 10:35 AM Here’s another trailer from Persepolis, based on the graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi, which may make you fall in love with “Eye of the Tiger” all over again: OMG, they made a direct-to-video cartoon of the Turo ...
Book Biz Big Hair, Big Appetite for Literature By Neal on Dec. 28, 2007 - 10:24 AM When Kathy Patrick (center) hits the road next week to promote her memoirish self-help book, The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life, she’ll be raffling off a “big hair makeover” at e ...
Comic Books Japanese Comic Books Wow ‘Em in Europe By Neal on Dec. 28, 2007 - 10:04 AM “German and French sales of manga totaled $212.6 million last year,” says Jennifer Fishbein of Business Week, “making Europe the largest consumer of manga outside Japan.” The news gets better for publishers ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat: Max Can Read No Further By Neal on Dec. 28, 2007 - 10:00 AM This photo definitely shouldn’t be construed as any sort of serious editorial comment on Herbie Brennan‘s bestselling Faerie Wars series, which concludes this week with the publication of Faerie Lord. “I don̵ ...
Funny LOLGalleycat: Walter Reassures an Anxious Public By Neal on Dec. 28, 2007 - 9:41 AM When I ran a poll around Brad Listi‘s book trailer, he wanted to make sure that everybody understood that his dog hadn’t really been taken hostage, and that Walter was perfectly all right. And here’s the proof, a ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat: Sonnet, Stoic in the Face of Despair By Neal on Dec. 28, 2007 - 9:36 AM Really, any caption I added to this picture of Sonnet, sent in by John Aaron of Modern Arf Entertainment, would be superfluous. At first, I wasn’t sure if this picture was going to make the cut, because I was only supposed t ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat: Rufus Calls the Tune By Neal on Dec. 28, 2007 - 9:15 AM This is Rufus, a three-year-old golden retriever belonging to Doug Lamy, an aspiring author in Washington State who’s trying to convert the manuscript for his sailing memoir, Schooner Appreciate, into a screenplay. He adds t ...