View Post Social Media Suzanne Collins Rules Most Read Books List on Facebook By Jason Boog on Dec. 18, 2012 - 11:20 AM Suzanne Collins and The Hunger Games dominated Facebook this year, her trilogy taking the first, second and third spots on Facebook’s Most Read Books of 2012 list. Above, you can see Facebook’s infographic about the to ...
View Post Digital Free Sites to Promote Your eBook By Jason Boog on Dec. 17, 2012 - 4:23 PM Are you struggling to promote your self-published digital book? Thanks to the Kindle Boards, we discovered a long list of places where self-published authors can promote their eBook for free. We’ve collected more information ...
View Post People Barack Obama Shares Bible Verses at Newtown Vigil By Jason Boog on Dec. 17, 2012 - 3:42 PM In an emotional vigil in Newtown, Connecticut, President Barack Obama spoke about the tragedy that occurred in that community last week. In his speech, the President quoted three passages from the Bible. Obama concluded with M ...
Publishing Space Opera Tops Self-Published Bestsellers List By Jason Boog on Dec. 17, 2012 - 3:23 PM For weeks, novelist Randolph Lalonde has led the Smashwords section of our Self Published Bestsellers List with the space opera series, Spinward Fringe. To help GalleyCat readers discover self-published authors, we have compil ...
View Post Editors | Publishing | Revolving Door Anne Hoppe to Move to Clarion Books By Maryann Yin on Dec. 17, 2012 - 2:23 PM Anne Hoppe will be moving from HarperCollins Children’s Books to Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Book Group. Hoppe spent 18 years at HarperCollins. She will begin in her new role as seni ...
View Post People James Franco To Publish Debut Poetry Collection By Jason Boog on Dec. 17, 2012 - 12:23 PM Movie star and author James Franco has inked a book deal to publish his debut poetry collection with Graywolf Press. Publication is set for April of 2014. In an interview with MTV News, Franco said was pondering “the idea o ...
Videos Alan Moore Goes Behind the Scenes in His New Film By Jason Boog on Dec. 17, 2012 - 12:23 PM In the short documentary embedded above, comic book writer Alan Moore talks about his new “surrealist-noir film series” he wrote for Vice’s Motherboard. Moore has seen his work adapted into film, but has alw ...
View Post Publishing NaNoWriMo Nonprofit Could Win a Project for Awesome Grant By Jason Boog on Dec. 17, 2012 - 11:23 AM The Office of Letters & Light, the nonprofit behind the National Novel Writing Month marathon, is up for a Project Awesome 2012 grant. If you want to support the group, you can vote for the NaNoWriMo video at the Project for ...
View Post Book Biz Game of Books Raises $104,500+ on Kickstarter By Jason Boog on Dec. 17, 2012 - 11:23 AM The Game of Books project has raised more than $104,500 on Kickstarter, funding a new way to keep track of how many books you have read. The website will log how many books you have read, giving readers badges for reading books wi ...
View Post Resources Stephen King Gives Screenwriting Advice By Jason Boog on Dec. 17, 2012 - 10:23 AM Novelist Stephen King spent an hour answering questions from writing students faculty and visitors in at UMass Lowell recently. One of his best answers focused on the art of screenplay writing. We’ve embedded the complete ...