God’s Book Deal, Love in the Time of Amazon & Whack-a-Mole: Weekend Reading

By Jason Boog 

As we head home for the weekend, we wanted to make sure you had plenty of publishing headlines to keep you busy. Email GalleyCat to get all our publishing stories, book deal news, videos, podcasts, interviews, and writing advice in a daily email newsletter.

We collected the Best Novels of 2010 in a literary mixtape.

Simon & Schuster struck a book deal with God.

We shared a cute and sweet book trailer (embedded above)–Love in the Time of Amazon.

We compared The Hunger Games $60 million budget to other adaptations.

National Novel Writing Month Writers wrote 2,799,449,947 words and we shared 30 days worth of writing tips.

We introduced The Book Spy, a blogger writing about what you read on the train.

Colin Robinson, the co-founder of OR Books, talked about handselling books online.

Our readers played Whack-a-Mole with ‘Writers Needed’ spam on Twitter.

We showed you how publishers can use social games.

We shared our readers favorite digital books in the Best eBooks of 2010 list.