Awards David Mitchell Gets $20,000 Award for Stay in U.S. By Jason Boog on Mar. 26, 2012 - 1:23 PM The American Academy of Arts and Letters has given novelist David Mitchell the $20,000 E.M. Forster Award. The prize intended to help “a young writer from the United Kingdom or Ireland for a stay in the United States.” ...
Events Could You Survive in a YA Dystopia? By Maryann Yin on Mar. 26, 2012 - 12:23 PM Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date. The next installment of New York ...
Adaptation | Book Biz | Bookselling Fifty Shades of Grey Film Rights Sold By Jason Boog on Mar. 26, 2012 - 12:17 PM Erotica author E L James has sold the film rights to the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy to Universal Pictures. Focus Features will partner with the studio to market and distribut the the film. Fifty Shades of Grey began as Twilight ...
Digital BookCrawler App Keeps Track of Your Books By Dianna Dilworth on Mar. 26, 2012 - 10:23 AM Do you have books all over the place? Some on your night stand, some on bookshelves, some in your bag, and even eBooks on different devices in different apps? To help you better manage your book collection, the $1.99 Book Crawler ...
Social Media How Moderating Comments Can Help Your Site By Jason Boog on Mar. 23, 2012 - 8:23 PM Should you moderate comments on your blog, YouTube page or Facebook Timeline? One example shows how a little moderation can go a long way… On today’s Morning Media Menu podcast, Social Times staff writer Devon Glenn (p ...
Resources Breaking Dawn Teaser & Reddit Literary Videos: Top Stories of the Week By Jason Boog on Mar. 23, 2012 - 5:35 PM For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week, including a Twilight teaser, a marijuana mystery and Reddit’s new page for literary videos (including the one embedded above). Click here to sign up fo ...
Authors | Bookselling Kurt Vonnegut Gets a Kindle Single By Jason Boog on Mar. 23, 2012 - 3:42 PM RosettaBooks has released a previously unpublished novella by Kurt Vonnegut. The 22,000-word Basic Training is on sale for $1.99 as a Kindle Single. According to the publisher, the novelist tried to sell the novella to The Saturda ...
Authors | Resources Writing Advice from Anne Lamott By Maryann Yin on Mar. 23, 2012 - 3:23 PM Author Anne Lamott and her son Sam Lamott kicked off the book tour for Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son at Barnes & Noble Union Square this week. The mother and son co-wrote the memoir, chronicling Sa ...
Bookselling Evan Schnittman To Head Sales & Marketing At Hachette By Dianna Dilworth on Mar. 23, 2012 - 3:07 PM Publishing industry veteran Evan Schnittman has been appointed executive vice president, chief marketing and sales officer at Hachette Book Group. In this newly created position, Schnittman will head up sales and marketing across ...
Editors | Resources NYT Magazine Editor Shares Tips for Freelance Writers By Jason Boog on Mar. 23, 2012 - 2:42 PM On Twitter today, New York Times Magazine culture editor Adam Sternbergh offered advice for freelance writers–an invaluable peek inside the mind of an editor. To help all the freelance writers in the audience, we’ve co ...