Hello all, it’s summertime, which means publishing news is not exactly burning up the telegraph wires. And plus I still have to finish packing up my office for its impending extreme makeover. The office building manager just told me that the interior is going to be either bright yellow or brown. Please please please cross […]
This Week in Books
This Week in Publishing 5/4/07
This week in the industry that is Publishing: Are you sitting down? Well, if you’re not, I think you probably should. You’re in for quite a shock. The NY Times Book Review just discovered that publishers sometimes cherry-pick reviews for blurbs like “genius” and “suspenseful” when the reviews were actually lukewarm. I KNOW. Consider my […]
This Week in Publishing 4/13/07
Dust off your Harris Tweed and practice your best “Cheerio,” it’s London Book Fair time. Or at least, it will be London Book Fair time on Monday. Yes, publishers and agents and authors and booksellers and Yorkshire lasses will meet and greet, sell subrights, build up buzz for hot titles and break for afternoon tea. […]
This Week In Publishing 3/30/07
From my lips to Oprah’s ears, right? Right? No? SHOOT. In a rather shocking announcement, or at least as shocking an announcement as is possible in the book world, Oprah has chosen Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD (previously discussed on this blog) as her next book club pick. Cormac McCarthy!! The guy who does not give […]
