Funny LOLGalleyCat: Homer Sets Out a Legacy By Neal on Dec. 27, 2007 - 9:41 AM This is Homer, the three year-old terrier of Nalini Jones, the author of the short story collection What You Call Winter, and Drew Patrick. According to Jones, “Homer lives in terror of demeaning yuletide antlers and of the ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat: Writers’ Dogs Are Just Ducky By Neal on Dec. 27, 2007 - 9:03 AM On the left, Lesley Dormen, the author of The Best Place to Be, presents Eliza, whose hunting instincts aren’t limited to fowl: She was forced to withdraw from the Guiding Eyes program when she couldn’t suppress her ap ...
Funny Again with the LOLGalleyCats? Really? By Neal on Dec. 27, 2007 - 9:00 AM I make my little jest, but I’m sure Otis and Roxy are as happy to be with Gail Konop Baker and her family as the Bakers were to greet the new arrivals a few weeks ago. Especially after I read the story about why they didn ...
Authors mediabistro.com’s Greg Lindsay Wants His Groove Back By Neal on Dec. 27, 2007 - 8:43 AM FishbowlNY contributing editor Greg Lindsay continues his monthly series of articles about the writing of his first nonfiction book with a report on his quest for a steady work routine. “I keep waiting to hit a point where t ...
Publishing Could Small Be Publishing’s Next Big, Too? By Neal on Dec. 27, 2007 - 8:36 AM It took me a while, but I finally caught up to Rob Walker‘s article for the NYT Magazine about the commercial boom in handcrafted merchandise, and though I haven’t got any concrete answers, it seems like it’s a p ...
Book Biz Richard & Judy Unveil UK’s 2008 Reading List By Neal on Dec. 27, 2007 - 8:30 AM The Daily Telegraph has posted a list of the next ten books for Richard and Judy’s Book Club, as featured on Channel 4’s Richard and Judy. (The effect on writers’s British sales is generally acknowledged to be pr ...
Publishing What’s Judith Regan Got on Tape? By Neal on Dec. 27, 2007 - 8:29 AM Tucked away on the Newsweek web site last week was a not entirely unexpected wrinkle in Judith Regan‘s lawsuit against her former employers at HarperCollins: “Regan has a tape recording that presumably helps to buttres ...
Book Biz The Secrets of Naked Revealed! By Neal on Dec. 27, 2007 - 8:01 AM UnBeige, mediabistro.com’s design blog, discovered an article at the Financial Times revealing the visual joke in the dust jacket of Naked, David Sedaris‘s 1997 essay collection: “Many of the stories in Naked exp ...
Book Biz Does This Book Trailer Go Too Far? By Neal on Dec. 27, 2007 - 8:00 AM Honestly, I think the reaction to this video, which Brad Listi created to promote his books Attention Deficit Disorder and This Is What My Head Sounds Like online, is going to be mixed. Some people might find the premise— ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat: Babe Contemplates His Advance By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 10:54 AM “Last May while I was surrounded by stacks of bills, my husband burst through the door waving a lottery ticket, [shouting] ‘Amy, we have to get this puppy,'” emails Amy MacKinnon, whose first novel, Tethered, wil ...