Funny LOLGalleyCat: Chief’s Adorable Liberal Bias By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 10:34 AM “There’s no book in this jolly photo of Chief taken during last week’s snowstorm,” apologizes Lily Burana, the author of Try and Strip City. “However, he promises to eat a copy of the Rove book for a ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat: Jasper Sees Opportunity in “Crisis” By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 10:20 AM “Jasper loves to get in the way when his humans are reading,” reports Laura Nathan, the photo feed editor at Photo District News. “In this picture, he’d decided to just lie on top of the books I was working ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat: Vishnu’s Packed and Ready By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 9:48 AM “Vishnu doesn’t really want to go on vacation with us,” says Carleen Brice, whose first novel, Orange Mint and Honey, is coming out from Ballantine in February. (Brice has also written and edited some nonfiction ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat: Talk About Dog-Eared Pages By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 9:22 AM Kristy Montee, one half of the sister-writing mystery team known to readers as P.J. Parrish, sends in this photo of Bailey at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. (Be sure not to miss Bailey’s holiday costume on the Parrish blog! ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat: Loretta’s Notes on the New Pages By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 9:14 AM “This is my freakishly large cat Loretta helping me re-think the organization of some manuscript or another,” emails Amy Stewart. “I think this one was The Earth Moved, with Algonquin editor Antonia Fusco‘s ...
Funny Happy Boxing Day! GalleyCat Style By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 9:00 AM For some in the publishing industry, it’s back to work now that Christmas is over, but the news is usually somewhat low key this time of year, so we’ve got time to enjoy a little more post-holiday cheer. Adia Colar, a ...
Authors NY Court Upholds “Libel Tourism” on Technicality By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 8:41 AM In 2005, Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz sued Rachel Ehrenfeld, an American journalist, for libel over claims in her book, Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed—and How to Stop It, that he’s given what a court r ...
Reviews Chicago Sun-Times Cuts Back on Lit Crit By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 8:38 AM Earlier this year, the Chicago Tribune tried moving its weekend book review section from Sunday to Saturday, as the newspaper’s owners sought to save money by reducing the size of the weekly print run. The city’s other ...
Awards Michael Portillo to Chair Man Booker Jury By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 8:32 AM Judges for the 2008 Man Booker Prize were announced last week, and Michael Portillo (left), who held several positions in former prime minister John Major’s cabinet and is now a frequent commentator for the BBC (and host of ...
Publishing If The Lawsuit Doesn’t Work, The Roundhouse Kicking Begins By Neal on Dec. 26, 2007 - 8:01 AM You would think, considering that Chuck Norris tolerated Mike Huckabee reciting Chuck Norris facts to his face in a political ad, that he might be okay with The Truth About Chuck Norris, the book based on the website from which th ...