Videos Hey, Where’d the Doggies of Publishing Go? By Neal on Aug. 26, 2009 - 9:00 AM Readers have noticed that we haven’t run our usual “dog days of August” posts this year, nor the harvest of cat photos that traditionally appears around the same time. To answer your questions, the feature is, as ...
Book Biz We’re Even Crowdsourcing Bookstore Appearances Now By Neal on Aug. 26, 2009 - 8:00 AM Journalist Melinda Blau is the co-author of a new book called Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don’t Seem to Matter…But Really Do, which has just started showing up in bookstores. Instead of going to th ...
Trends What’s Urban Fantasy? What’s Paranormal Romance? By Neal on Aug. 26, 2009 - 8:00 AM Towards the end of yesterday’s post about the rising popularity of urban fantasy, we wondered out loud about the overlap between what gets classified as “urban fantasy” and what gets classified as “paranorm ...
People Twelve Rounds to Glory by Charles R. Smith Jr. By Jeff Rivera on Aug. 26, 2009 - 7:30 AM Today’s choice for Featured Pick of the Day Book of Color is Charles R. Smith Jr.’s picture book Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali (Candlewick Press). Smith Jr. tells the tale of Muhammad Ali’s li ...
Digital Forget Sony’s Daily Edition, What about the Partnerships? By Jason Boog on Aug. 25, 2009 - 3:23 PM As Sony (SNE‎) unveiled the new Daily Edition digital reader today (pictured), the new device stole the show: a 3G wireless connection via AT&T, a 7-inch wide touch screen, and the $399 price tag. However, the company al ...
Publishing Publishing Job Board: Rodale Rocks By Jason Boog on Aug. 25, 2009 - 3:23 PM Even as employees try and squeeze the last drops out of summer vacation, a number of publishing houses are still hiring. In an effort to keep the GalleyCat community up-to-date, we will feature publishing jobs fresh off the mediab ...
Trends Book Covers Uncovered By Jason Boog on Aug. 25, 2009 - 2:23 PM The NY Observer initiated a literary blog conversation over the future of book jackets this week, highlighting fall books that lack these customary covers, like “Bicycle Diaries” by David Byrne. Today on the Morning Me ...
Trends Urban Fantasy: Science Fiction’s Future? By Neal on Aug. 25, 2009 - 12:39 PM Less than two weeks after counting all the swords on the covers of fantasy novels, Orbit Books publisher Tim Holman is once again donning his statistical analysis hat, this time to track the rising popularity of urban fantasy fict ...
Authors Mary Gaitskill’s Real Life GalleyCat By Jason Boog on Aug. 25, 2009 - 12:23 PM Over at The Awl, editor Choire Sicha has turned a new essay by Mary Gaitskill into an emotional contest that the cat-lovers in the GalleyCat audience can appreciate. Here’s an excerpt: “Lots of people are playing a lit ...
Digital Sony Unveils Daily Edition Reader By Jason Boog on Aug. 25, 2009 - 11:23 AM This morning Sony announced a brand-new “Daily Edition,” the company’s 3G wireless digital reader. Scheduled to be shipped in December, the device will sell for $399. According to Gizmodo, the company showed off ...