Reviews Hey, Check Out This Beam in My Eye! By Neal on Mar. 26, 2008 - 10:31 AM A few people have emailed me a link to Bob Harris‘s list of seven words book reviewers have overused on the NYT Book Review Paper Cuts blog, and about half of them have suggested slyly that a certain Times reviewer makes abu ...
Authors AvantGuild: Fugging Their Way To the Top By Neal on Mar. 26, 2008 - 10:11 AM When the Go Fug Yourself Girls came to New York for Fashion Week, mediabistro.com’s Rebecca Fox got an interview that delves into the reactions from the celebrities whose bad fashion sense they target: “I think for mos ...
Book Biz More Thoughts on the Sci-Fi Cover Debate By Neal on Mar. 26, 2008 - 8:03 AM After reading Monday’s item about science fiction book covers that don’t scream sci-fi, which praised the approach taken by the UK division of Orbit, publishing director Tim Holman reflects on the US and UK covers for ...
Authors Peggy Seltzer: Fourteen Minutes and Counting By Neal on Mar. 26, 2008 - 7:49 AM The op-ed section of Eugene, Oregon’s Register-Guard squeezes a few more inches of copy out of the scandal surrounding their local literary fraudster, Peggy Seltzer, with one more op-ed about Love and Consequences. Veteran j ...
Events Scene @ Doree Lewak’s Panic Years Party By Neal on Mar. 25, 2008 - 11:16 AM A crowd of 20-somethings filled Union Square’s D-Lounge last night for the release of Doree Lewak‘s The Panic Years: A Guide to Surviving Smug Married Friends, Bad Taffeta, and Life on the Wrong Side of 25 Without a Ri ...
Reviews Salm No Longer Handling SD’s Book Reviews By Neal on Mar. 25, 2008 - 11:15 AM As noted by Publishers Marketplace earlier this morning, a publicist friend of San Diego Union-Tribune book review editor Arthur Salm passes word along that, months after the public outcry over cuts to his section, the veteran jou ...
Book Biz Finding the Short Film in Your Novel (for Less!) By Neal on Mar. 25, 2008 - 9:01 AM Jean Marie Pierson had a perfect hook for a book trailer to promote her debut novel, No Good Girls: The story had originally begun as a screenplay—Pierson had been an aspiring filmmaker in collage and beyond—and when s ...
Sponsored Content Look What Kavalier & Clay Hath Wrought By Neal on Mar. 25, 2008 - 8:00 AM Did you see the notice in the Publishers Marketplace deal lunch last week for Harry Brod (right) and Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and the Jewish-American Way. The book, which Free Pr ...
Bookselling Book Sales Off to Good Start in 2008? By Neal on Mar. 25, 2008 - 8:00 AM Following last week’s announcement of a 4.7 percent increase in bookstore sales for the month of January, the Association of American Publishers released its own statistics on book sales yesterday, claiming a 7.2 percent inc ...
Book Biz Come Aboard, PEN’s Expecting You By Neal on Mar. 24, 2008 - 2:03 PM Dale Peck and Colum McCann were among the literary players recruited to join a group of media types on the Queen Mary 2 last week for the unveiling of this year’s PEN World Voices schedule. After riding a bus from SoHo to Re ...