View Post Publishing | Resources Try the Cut-Up Machine: NaNoWriMo Tip #22 By Jason Boog on Nov. 22, 2012 - 10:23 AM Does your prose feeling boring and repetitive? Try the cut-up machine to create some crazy new writing. Simply visit the Cut-Up Machine at the Language Is Virus blog and feed it some text. It can be a boring passage you wrote or a ...
View Post Authors | Bookselling | Resources The Lost History of Fifty Shades of Grey By Jason Boog on Nov. 21, 2012 - 8:23 PM The French publisher Lattes has sent “warning letters” to publishers it feels are infringing on the copyright of Fifty Shades of Grey. The Telegraph had this quote from editorial director Laurent Laffont: “Som ...
View Post People Anthology Raises Money for Sandy Relief By Jason Boog on Nov. 21, 2012 - 6:23 PM Author R.T. Kaelin has assembled a team of writers for a new anthology to raise money for Red Cross relief as the East Coast rebuilds following Hurricane Sandy. Follow this link to donate and get a copy of the book. The Triumph Ov ...
View Post Social Media Happy Reader Thanks Day! By Jason Boog on Nov. 21, 2012 - 3:23 PM What are you thankful for this year? For the second year in a row, Colleen Lindsay from Penguin’s Book Country is urging readers to share their literary thanks at the #readerthanks hashtag. We’ve collected a few of o ...
View Post Bookselling | Publishing News Corp. Interested in Buying Simon & Schuster By Jason Boog on Nov. 21, 2012 - 3:23 PM The News Corp. owned Wall Street Journal broke the news this afternoon that News Corp. (the corporate parents of HarperCollins) have pondered buying Simon & Schuster. Check it out: “News Corp, owner of HarperCollins Pub ...
View Post Digital Choose Your Own Adventure Books on Tablets By Jason Boog on Nov. 21, 2012 - 12:42 PM Twenty classic Choose Your Own Adventure books have arrived in a tablet edition, available to download in the iBookstore and Amazon Kindle. AppNewser reminds us that these books were also adapted for the Atari in the 1980s. What ...
View Post Publishing | Resources NaNoWriMo Tip #21: How To Find a Writing Partner By Jason Boog on Nov. 21, 2012 - 12:23 PM Novelist and screenwriter Derek Haas has been working with his screenwriting partner Michael Brandt since the duo met as college students. Since then, they have written scripts that included 3:10 to Yuma, 2 Fast 2 Furious a ...
View Post Book Biz | Comic Books Supernatural Noir Comic Raising Funds on Kickstarter By Maryann Yin on Nov. 21, 2012 - 11:23 AM Writer K. Barrett has already raised nearly $8,000 on Kickstarter for her supernatural graphic novel, The Bargain. With this funding, she will be able to hire an artist to finish creating the illustrations for this 1950’s n ...
View Post Book Biz | Publishing Scholastic Reduces Earnings Estimates By Jason Boog on Nov. 21, 2012 - 10:23 AM Scholastic reduced its earnings estimates for the fiscal year, predicting the company will earn approximately $1.8 to $1.9 billion (compared to earlier estimates of $1.9 to $2 billion). Before trading opened for the day, the compa ...
View Post People Draft a Romance Novel with a Bestselling Author By Guest on Nov. 20, 2012 - 4:58 PM Romance novels are hot right now. With bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey hitting the markets, editors are on the hunt for the next big thing. Lucky for you, Mediabistro is offering an online Romance Novel Writing class starti ...