Book Biz Obama’s Building Up His Foreign Policy Assets By Neal on May. 21, 2008 - 12:29 PM The marketing folks at W.W. Norton are pretty excited today, after presidential candidate (and bestselling author) Barack Obama was photographed by NY Times shutterbug Doug Mills will a copy of Fareed Zakaria‘s latest book, ...
Authors FishbowlLA: Bright, Shiny Softballs By Neal on May. 21, 2008 - 11:56 AM Tina Dupuy of mediabistro.com’s FishbowlLA is unimpressed by the local paper’s James Frey interview, claiming Scott Timberg‘s front-page interview “acts as if [A Million Little Pieces] was The Blair Witch P ...
Digital Harpers and The New Yorker Both Have New Book Blogs By Glynnis on May. 21, 2008 - 11:52 AM Because heaven knows the world needs more book blogs, the New Yorker now has a blog called The Book Bench, named after their office’s discarded-book pile (pictured). And Harpers now has Sentences. The latter, so far, is pret ...
Publishing (Some) Authors GalleyCat Likes, Reading in NYC By Neal on May. 21, 2008 - 11:30 AM Remember last month, when I ran that feature on the return of Jack O’Connell and his awesome novel, The Resurrectionist? Well, he’s reading at KGB tonight at 7 p.m. with fantasy author Ekaterina Sedia, in the latest in ...
Book Biz A “Hot Book” Commentator With an Iron in the Fire By Neal on May. 21, 2008 - 11:29 AM While I’m doing my two BookExpo America panels on May 29, the Los Angeles Public Library will be hosting a panel on “Hot Books for Fall” with input from editors David Ebershoff (Random House), Morgan Entrekin (Gr ...
Publishing GalleyCat Added to 2nd BookExpo Panel By Neal on May. 21, 2008 - 7:58 AM I’ve just accepted an invitation to join Kevin Smokler and M.J. Rose to speak on a BookExpo America panel called “The Author-preneur: Balancing Authorship and the New Business of Brand-building,” which will take ...
Awards Report from PEN Literary Awards By Ethan on May. 20, 2008 - 5:37 PM There was a lot of publishing world compitition for our Meet the Bloggers event last night at Corio, and sadly I couldn’t make it to the PEN awards. Fortunately, Cynthia Shannon, associate publicist from Wiley was on the sce ...
Book Bix Bookthievery Update By Ethan on May. 20, 2008 - 2:47 PM Chris Erikson from the New York Post just sent me this story about his missing copy of Tales of Times Square: Someone sent me your post about the CNN mailroom thief, figuring I’d be amused since something similar happened to ...
Book Biz Book Publicists: Help a Reporter By Ethan on May. 20, 2008 - 2:28 PM If you haven’t already subscribed, I highly recommend getting Peter Shankman’s Help a Reporter newsletter which he sends out three times a day, each with anywhere from 2-10 queries from reporters looking for an expert. ...
Authors The Source of Michael Chabon’s Inspiration Revealed By Glynnis on May. 20, 2008 - 12:11 PM Emily Dickinson had the attic. Rivers Cuomo had the garage. And in an essay in this month’s Details, Michael Chabon stakes his claim on … the basement. Playing in the basement as a child, he writes, “helped form ...