View Post Resources How to Submit Your Romance Novel to Avon Impulse By Jason Boog on Dec. 26, 2012 - 9:23 AM Have you written a romance novel this year? You can submit your manuscript to Avon Impulse, a new digital imprint at HarperCollins’ Avon Books. They accept both unagented and agented submissions, and the guidelines had this n ...
View Post Resources Most Overlooked Books of 2012: A Literary Mixtape By Jason Boog on Dec. 25, 2012 - 3:07 PM What book do you wish more people had read this year? People love to create Best of the Year lists every December, but we prefer to spotlight the most overlooked books each season. Below, we are linking to free samples of the Most ...
View Post Awards National Book Award Winners for 2012 By Jason Boog on Dec. 25, 2012 - 2:23 PM The National Book Award winners for 2012 were revealed earlier this year. You can read free samples of all the winners below to help fill your eReader or tablet. Louise Erdrich has won the fiction award for The Round House from ...
View Post People Book Christmas Tree Farm 2012 By Jason Boog on Dec. 24, 2012 - 9:23 AM Happy holidays! GalleyCat readers around the world have been building Book Christmas Trees all month. After we shared a photo of a Book Christmas Tree, many of our readers started building their own. We’ve collected three tr ...
View Post Adaptation | Publishing ‘The Giver’ Film Adaptation ‘Is Finally on the Road’ By Maryann Yin on Dec. 21, 2012 - 2:23 PM For the past 15 years, fans have circulated rumors about a film adaptation of Lois Lowry‘s The Giver. In an interview with studio 360, Lowry confirmed that the movie “is finally on the road.” Oscar-winning actor ...
View Post Bookselling An Ode to Bookstore Cats By Jason Boog on Dec. 21, 2012 - 1:23 PM Sally Forth comic strip writer Francecso Marciuliano recently published I Could Pee on This, a collection of poems written from the point-of-view of cats. As a special gift to GalleyCat readers, we’ve printed his “B ...
View Post Digital | Publishing Wattpad Counts 10 Million Uploads By Maryann Yin on Dec. 21, 2012 - 12:07 PM Digital publishing community Wattpad now counts ten million uploads. Members of the community upload one million new pieces on a monthly basis. Back in August 2011, the site reached one million site users. Several Wattpad writers ...
View Post Bookselling Macmillan To Launch A Crowd-Sourced Romance Imprint in 2013 By Dianna Dilworth on Dec. 21, 2012 - 11:09 AM Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group has plans for a new romance imprint which will invite the crowd to participate in what gets published. The imprint which will go by the name of Swoon Reads. AppNewser has more about how i ...
View Post People Varney the Vampire: A Literary Remix By Jason Boog on Dec. 21, 2012 - 10:23 AM We are proud to unveil Varney the Vampire: A Literary Remix, a free digital book featuring the work of GalleyCat readers. We used Smashwords to publish the final product, and you can download a free copy in all major eBook forma ...
View Post Book Biz 25 Free Christmas eBooks By Jason Boog on Dec. 21, 2012 - 10:23 AM Want to give free eBooks to your friends and family this holiday season? For all the GalleyCat readers who celebrate Christmas, we’ve collected 25 free digital books about the holiday–they can be downloaded in all eBoo ...