Publishing | Resources Keep Writing Every Day: NaNoWriMo Tip #30 By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2011 - 6:38 PM National Novel Writing Month reinforces the most basic and important aspect of any working writer’s life: Keep writing every day. Now that NaNoWriMo has concluded, you should continue writing every day. If you are really amb ...
Authors Quentin Rowan Publishes His Confession By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2011 - 6:23 PM A few weeks after his debut was pulled for plagiarism, novelist Quentin Rowan has written “Confessions of a Plagiarist” for The Fix, a website dedicated to addiction and recovery. “Here I am, ready to dodge bulle ...
Digital Free App Building Tool for Writers By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2011 - 3:23 PM Authors interested in building book apps for tablets and mobile devices can download the currently free Demibooks Composer tool in the Apple App Store, a DIY app that helps writers add “realistic physics, animation, sounds a ...
Adaptation | People Tom Hanks Could Star in Adaptation of ‘In the Garden of Beasts’ By Maryann Yin on Nov. 30, 2011 - 3:07 PM Universal Studios has acquired the movie rights for In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Oscar winner Tom Hanks and his producing p ...
Book Biz Curbside Haiku Safety Signs Posted in NYC By Maryann Yin on Nov. 30, 2011 - 2:07 PM The New York City Department of Transportation has posted 216 “Curbside Haiku” signs around New York City. Here’s more from The Gothamist: “[Each haiku expresses] a different safety message by focusing on o ...
People | Publishing | Videos Harry Connick, Jr. Publishes Picture Book By Maryann Yin on Nov. 30, 2011 - 2:00 PM Musician Harry Connick, Jr. has published a picture book inspired by his song, The Happy Elf. In the video embedded above, the author performs the original song. Connick also talks about his thoughts behind the picture book projec ...
Authors | Digital Mark Twain Receives Google Birthday Present By Jason Boog on Nov. 30, 2011 - 1:23 PM To celebrate the 176 birthday of Mark Twain, Google released a Google Doodle depicting a scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (embedded above). The picture shows a a team of kids tricked into whitewashing a fence in the classic ...
Digital Charlie Stross: ‘DRM Has Proven to Be a Hideous Mistake’ By Dianna Dilworth on Nov. 30, 2011 - 12:23 PM Author Charlie Stross thinks that if publishers released DRM-free eBooks, they would be less beholden to Amazon’s Kindle ecosystem. In a blog post from earlier this week, the British science-fiction author argues that Amazon ...
Digital ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Gets Storybook App By Dianna Dilworth on Nov. 30, 2011 - 11:23 AM When Charles Schultz‘s classic comic strip Peanuts was adapted into A Charlie Brown Christmas back in 1965, a legend was made. Digital publishing company Loud Crow Interactive is trying to do a 21st century update with an a ...
Events Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Celebrates Word Processors By Maryann Yin on Nov. 30, 2011 - 11:02 AM Have you ever used a word processor? Author Matthew G. Kirschenbaum will headline a brown bag lunch talk at the New York Public Library called “Stephen King’s Wang: The Literary History of Word Processing.” Here& ...