View Post Authors New Bridget Jones Title Revealed By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2013 - 10:07 AM Helen Fielding has revealed more details about her next Bridget Jones book, called Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Alfred A. Knopf will publish the book on October 15, Fielding’s first Jones book since 1999. The first two ...
View Post Book Biz | Bookselling | People Rick Springfield To Publish His First Novel By Maryann Yin on May. 28, 2013 - 2:07 AM Rock star Rick Springfield has sold his debut novel to Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone imprint. The publisher will release Magnificent Vibration in May 2014, a novel about a man who gets “a 1-800 phone connectio ...
View Post Bookselling Penguin Book Truck To Travel Country By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2013 - 12:42 AM Penguin will introduce its new Book Truck and the Book Pushcart at BookExpo America this week, crossing a mobile library with a food truck. The 27-foot-long Book Truck contains two bookshelves with 96 feet of shelf space, LED ligh ...
View Post Social Media GalleyCat Counts 200,000 Twitter Followers By Jason Boog on May. 28, 2013 - 12:23 AM Over the holiday weekend, GalleyCat reached 200,000 followers on Twitter. We’d like to thank all our Twitter readers for your support these last few years–you’ve really helped our site grow. You can also subsc ...
View Post Book Biz Turn Your Favorite Kid’s Book into an Audiobook By Jason Boog on May. 24, 2013 - 2:23 PM If you want to make a personalized audiobook for the kid in your life, StorySticker can help you with the transition. Created by stkr.it, the tool will be unveiled at BEA next week. AppNewser has all the details: StorySticker le ...
View Post Publishing | Reviews The Kashmir Shawl & Head Over Heels: Coming Attractions By Maryann Yin on May. 24, 2013 - 1:42 PM Here are some handpicked titles from our Coming Attractions page. Want to include your book? Just read our Share Your New Book with GalleyCat Readers post for all the details. The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas: “Mair E ...
View Post People Discover a Literary Cocktail This Summer By Jason Boog on May. 24, 2013 - 1:23 PM Pop Chart Lab has created The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature, collecting the most literary cocktails for your summer mixology. Check it out: A catalog of 49 drinks culled from great works of film and literature, depicting ...
View Post Book Biz Rick Atkinson To Write American Revolution Trilogy By Jason Boog on May. 24, 2013 - 10:15 AM Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson will publish a narrative history trilogy about the American Revolution with Henry Holt and Company. The former Washington Post staff writer won the Pulitzer Prize for An Army at Daw ...
View Post Digital Watch Black Books for Free Online By Jason Boog on May. 24, 2013 - 5:23 AM Looking for some literary Memorial Day viewing? Try Black Books, a classic British sitcom about a dysfunctional bookstore. You can watch it for free on Hulu or Netflix streaming. We’ve embedded the trailer below–an ...
View Post Bookselling Once Sold Tales Offers Book Grab Bags By Jason Boog on May. 24, 2013 - 4:42 AM Seattle’s Once Sold Tales is currently offering $10, $12, $18 and $20 book grab bags for readers. As we wrote earlier this week, the owner is struggling to find homes for 500,000 books before her warehouse closes at the end ...