- J-pulp specialist Vertical announced in an email newsletter yesterday that they’ll be switching their distribution from the National Book Network to Random House.
Remember June’s NYT profile of Romentics, the gay couple that self-published a batch of steamy romance novels until Warner picked up Hot Sauce? Well, they’ve gone back to the alternative scene, as their latest tome, Nothing Personal, is being released through BookSurge, the Amazon-owned “inventory-free book printing and fulfillment” (read: print-on-demand) company. I for one can’t wait to hear what the gals at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books make of that cover…
- I’m simply shocked, shocked I tell you, that Harold Pinter’s Nobel acceptance speech turned out to be full of anti-American rhetoric. As Sarah Lyall notes, “The literature prize has in recent years often gone to writers with left-wing ideologies.” Hey, maybe that has something to do with the fact that the prize was created by an anti-war activist?
- The fanboy in me is both thrilled and appalled that Marvel Entertainment will resurrect the New Universe, with hot comics writer Warren Ellis handling the scripts. Since my brother and I are probably the only two people reading this blog who remember the New Universe, let me explain: 20 years ago, Marvel thought it would be cool to develop a new line of superheroes who lived and fought in a “real” world in “real” time (every story taking place a month after the previous issue), the main problem being that the characters were all pretty lame, and the plug was pulled on most of the titles about a year later, with the characters making only sporadic appearances since then. But to give you an idea of what Ellis’ attachment to the project is like, imagine if Aaron Sorkin had been hired to write episodes of Stacked…
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