Publishing Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Lockdown: Outside Reactions By Neal on Nov. 25, 2008 - 12:36 PM The publishing world was caught off guard by yesterday’s announcement from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt of a temporary freeze on new acquisitions, and throughout the afternoon and evening, industry insiders tried to make sense ...
Authors Thomas Pynchon’s Private Detective Hits Streets in August 2009 By Jason Boog on Nov. 25, 2008 - 12:23 PM Thomas Pynchon is publishing a private detective novel entitled Inherent Vice this summer–writing about a shamus solving a case during the 1960’s. Conversational Reading got the scoop via the Penguin catalog. Aficionad ...
Digital Blogs.com Taps GalleyCat for Literature’s Best By Neal on Nov. 25, 2008 - 11:06 AM We were pleasantly surprised to wake up this morning and discover GalleyCat had made the Blogs.com list of the ten best literature blogs, as determined by David Gutowksi, the creator of Largehearted Boy—especially since we m ...
Book Biz AvantGuild: An Agent Opens Up the Hispanic Book Market By Neal on Nov. 25, 2008 - 10:44 AM The newest installment of mediabistro.com’s “Pitching an Agent” profiles Diane Stockwell of Globos Libros, a literary agency that focuses on the Hispanic market—which Stockwell first tapped into back in 199 ...
Authors Author Joan Wickersham on Writing about Suicide By Jason Boog on Nov. 25, 2008 - 10:23 AM “My father killed himself in 1991, and when I got the news I thought, ‘Oh, no, that’s impossible. He would never do that.’ And at the same moment I thought, ‘Of course.'” That’s Joan Wicke ...
Book Biz Kim From LA: Publicist With A Poetic Sensibility By Neal on Nov. 25, 2008 - 9:00 AM Most people in the publishing business who know Kim Dower know her as the force behind Kim from L.A., a Los Angeles-based expert in getting publicity for books and in preparing authors for media appearances. Turns out she’s ...
Book Biz AgencySpy: How to Get a Book Deal in Advertising By Neal on Nov. 25, 2008 - 8:00 AM The anonymous half of the editorial team at AgencySpy, mediabistro.com’s blog about the advertising industry, scored an interview with LJK Literary Management‘s Jud Laghi about whether there’s room for any more b ...
Publishing Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “Temporarily” Stops Buying New Books By Jason Boog on Nov. 24, 2008 - 4:23 PM In a move that made a few agents anxious, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has “temporarily stopped acquiring manuscripts,” according to a spokesperson. As Publishers Weekly reports, a few executives were informed o ...
Authors The Literary Legacy of Hannity & Colmes By Jason Boog on Nov. 24, 2008 - 3:23 PM After 12 years of punditry, debate, and books with long subtitles, Alan Colmes is leaving the FOX News program, Hannity & Colmes at the end of the year. TVNewser has more. The liberal pundit had had this to say: “Althoug ...
Digital Pan Macmillan Partners with Popular iPhone Reader By Jason Boog on Nov. 24, 2008 - 1:23 PM Books by John Scalzi, Clive James, Peter F. Hamilton, China Mieville and Neal Asher can now be purchased for the iPhone, as Pan Macmillan partnered with the e-reader company, Lexcycle–becoming one of the largest publishers t ...