Reviews Wait, Blurbs Don’t Flow Like Honey from the Rock? Really? By Neal on Aug. 18, 2008 - 8:04 AM It was back in 2006 that I first mentioned the two types of Rachel Donadio stories you could find in the New York Times Book Review. On a good day, you’d get sharply reported articles like the backstory on J. Robert Lennon&# ...
Bookselling Any Fool Can Buy a Book, And Many Do By Neal on Aug. 18, 2008 - 8:00 AM As you may have heard, I stopped reading your anonymous tips, but every once in a while Andy will forward one for my opinion, or I’ll go looking in my trash box for another message I accidentally deleted and something’ ...
Authors Isobella Jade’s Tips for No-Budget Author Promotion By Neal on Aug. 15, 2008 - 12:00 PM Has it really been nearly a year since the last time I wrote about Isobella Jade, the model who wrote a memoir at the Apple Store? I got an email from her last week; apparently, after self-publishing the book through Amazon.com ...
Publishing Drinking on the Job By Ethan on Aug. 15, 2008 - 11:39 AM With the success of Chelsea Handler’s Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, I got to thinking how drinking and publishing go together like lunch and three martinis. This being Friday, I know a few of you have been ou ...
Authors Rushdie: Random Gave In To “Censorship By Fear” By Neal on Aug. 15, 2008 - 9:00 AM Ever since the world learned about Random House‘s cancellation of The Jewel of Medina over what the company described as “cautionary advice” that publishing a novel narrated by the youngest wife of the Prophet Mu ...
Funny Happiness Is… One More Dog Picture By Neal on Aug. 15, 2008 - 8:00 AM So Rock the Vote went down to San Diego for Comic-Con last month as part of a campaign that ropes characters from Peanuts into a mock presidential election, with a Peanuts Rock the Vote website and a DVD of You’re Not Electe ...
Digital Who Would You Want to Hear Reading the Classics? By Neal on Aug. 14, 2008 - 10:53 AM Hearing Richard Russo read a one-minute excerpt from Huckleberry Finn for “Moving Paragraphs,” a new video series from Barnes & Noble Studio got me to thinking: If I were producing a series of short animated films ...
Publishing The Lace Reader’s Dirty Linen By Ethan on Aug. 14, 2008 - 9:14 AM The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry is currently number 7 on the New York Times best seller list but how did this originally self-published title that ended up selling to Morrow for 2.4 million make such a splash? Jocelyn Kelley fro ...
Sponsored Content In the Recording Studio with Roy Blount, Jr. By Neal on Aug. 14, 2008 - 9:00 AM When I got to the recording studio just off Times Square where Roy Blount, Jr. was recording an abridged audiobook edition of his forthcoming Alphabet Juice (due in October from FSG and Macmillan Audio) yesterday afternoon, heR ...
Events UnBeige: A Boring Book Party in Chicago By Neal on Aug. 14, 2008 - 8:00 AM I’ve been meaning to write about Zach Plague‘s Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring ever since Featherproof Books, Plague’s indie press best known for its downloadable mini-books, sent me a copy a few ...