Publishing Thank God That’s Over: Regan, News Corp. Settle By Neal on Jan. 25, 2008 - 8:00 PM Spotted on the Variety website late Friday afternoon: The wrongful termination lawsuit Judith Regan brought against her former employers at Harper Collins, a division of News Corp., has been settled for an undisclosed sum. But the ...
Authors Yet Another “Where’s Dan Brown’s Book? Story By Neal on Jan. 25, 2008 - 10:58 AM The Wall Street Journal is the latest media outlet to wonder whatever happened to The Solomon Key, the Da Vinci Code sequel Dan Brown was supposed to have delivered ages ago. (See, for example, this item from May 2007 or this one ...
Events Scene @ mediabistro.com’s Mirage Party By Neal on Jan. 25, 2008 - 10:38 AM Back in December, mediabistro.com threw a party to celebrate the publication of Nina Burleigh‘s latest book, Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt. The photos are online now, including this shot of B ...
Digital Simon & Schuster Floods the Zone with YA Authors By Neal on Jan. 25, 2008 - 8:22 AM Last October, Readergirlz celebrated a month of guest appearances by YA authors, from Meg Cabot to Stephanie Meyer. Recognizing the marketing potential of such a project, Simon & Schuster announced yesterday that it will jam m ...
Events Scene @ The Blind Tasting for Wine and Love By Neal on Jan. 25, 2008 - 12:24 AM Earlier this week, Harcourt invited a few media folks to Alice Feiring‘s SoHo apartment to introduce her forthcoming book, The Battle for Wine and Love, an account of “how I saved the world from Parkerization.” G ...
Authors Zen Habits Spinoff: Write to Done By Neal on Jan. 24, 2008 - 12:17 PM Two weeks ago, I told you about the book deal for Zen Habits blogger Leo Babauta, who’s signed with Hyperion to deliver The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential. But that’s not all he’ ...
Awards Cheerios, S&S Give Nashville Woman Book Deal By Neal on Jan. 24, 2008 - 11:56 AM Shellie Braeuner (left), a Nashville-based nanny and former child counselor, has been selected as the winner of the Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories Children’s Book Contest, conducted in association with First Book and Simon &a ...
Bookselling November Good for Books All Over By Neal on Jan. 24, 2008 - 11:05 AM Last week, PW reported a 7.5 percent increase in bookstore sales for November—this morning, the Association of American Publishers released its figures for book sales in all venues, with a slightly higher uptick of 8.0 perce ...
Book Biz Your House Is a Very, Very, Very Fine House By Neal on Jan. 24, 2008 - 8:04 AM Olafur Eliasson has collaborated with the laser-cutting company Kremo on Your House, a three-dimensional scaled representation of Eliasson’s house created by making precise cuts to 454 sheets of paper which were then bound t ...
Book Biz Book Trailers I Like: Bob Delaney’s Covert By Neal on Jan. 24, 2008 - 8:00 AM The thing about book trailers being so easy to make now is that if they’re going to be at all effective (which is still open to debate) they need to really stand out from the competition. And I gotta admit, this one-minute v ...