Funny Cats & Computer Screens: A Perennial Classic By Neal on Dec. 24, 2008 - 8:04 AM Don’t even think about skipping that deadline, Laura Anne Gilman: Pandora and Boomerang are staked out to make sure you hit your word count on your latest novel every morning. (We’re guessing they also make sure she ke ...
Funny Marley & Me‘s Agent Discovers Puppy Love By Neal on Dec. 24, 2008 - 8:03 AM “Even though I’m John Grogan‘s agent, I never understood the hoopla about dogs,” confesses Laurie Abkemeier of DeFiore and Company. “So it came as a big surprise to a lot of people that my kids and I ...
Funny Nobody Puts Vegas in the Corner… Oh, Wait By Neal on Dec. 24, 2008 - 8:00 AM “So this is Vegas,” emails Joe McGinnis, Jr., “named for the locale in daddy’s novel, The Delivery Man. The basket belongs to his sibling—our first son, Julien. Found Vegas in it—actually lying ...
Funny Road Trip! Our Northernmost Pet Photo Yet By Neal on Dec. 24, 2008 - 8:00 AM This is the actual author photo Doreen Orion used for her travel memoir, Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus With a Will of Its Own, which came out earlier ...
Funny One Agency, Multiple LOLGalleyCat Submissions By Neal on Dec. 24, 2008 - 7:03 AM First Jenny Rappaport, who recently launched her own agency, sent us a picture of her cat, Zoe, sitting in a manuscript box two years ago, when she was just a kitten. (“It’s totally archaic now,” Rappaport told u ...
Funny Notice the Cat in Profound Meditation? By Neal on Dec. 24, 2008 - 7:03 AM “Kitty Katz likes books about other cats,” says Meg Parsont of the Parsont Publicity Group. If you look closely, you can see that she’s reaching out to A Wodehouse Bestiary, The Cat Who came for Christmas, and A ...
Funny Now That’s What We Call a Meaty Story By Neal on Dec. 24, 2008 - 7:01 AM “This is Sadie, my number one fan and number three dog, devouring a copy of my second book, The Winter of Her Discontent,” mystery writer Kathryn Miller Haines tells us. “Somehow she selected this book out of hou ...
Funny LOLGalleyCat Arrangement in Gray By Neal on Dec. 24, 2008 - 7:00 AM Science fiction/fantasy author S. Andrew Swann sent us a photo of his cat, Zoe, while journalist Kelly DiNardo emailed a picture of her dog, Dudley, that was taken by Stacey Vaeth, the same photographer who did the head shot for D ...
Awards Booker Prize Backer Had $360 Million Invested with Bernard L. Madoff By Jason Boog on Dec. 23, 2008 - 4:23 PM The Man Group, an investment firm that sponsors the annual Man Booker Prize, had $360 million invested in Bernard L. Madoff’s allegedly fraudulent firm that may have lost up to $50 billion in investor’s money. From the ...
Book Biz Publishers Enlist ScrollMotion in iPhone Digital Book Development By Jason Boog on Dec. 23, 2008 - 3:23 PM The mobile phone application developer ScrollMotion finalized deals with Simon & Schuster, Random House, Hachette, Houghton Mifflin, and Penguin Group USA to develop e-books for the iPhone. According to MobileContentToday, the ...