This week! Books! There was some news that roiled the publishing world this week, as Audible announced a feature called Audible Captions, which would display text while an audiobook is playing. Ya know. Kinda like an e-book. Publishers and literary agents responded with alarm, noting that Audible had not come to them for permission for […]
The Hills
What I Learned About Writing While Watching Reality Television
As longtime blog readers know, I have a bit of a reality TV habit. I still watch Survivor (I know), I was a habitual The Hills watcher before our messy breakup, and I would very much like to be friends with Phil Keoghan from the Amazing Race, who seems like the type of person who […]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Kindle
Bear with me here. I know that per the last polling around 45% of you would rather be tasered than part with your paper books in favor of e-books, and thus I would imagine that reading a blog post about the bizarre e-book reading habits of a blogging literary agent can’t be much fun for […]
This Week in Publishing 9/12/08
Publishing, in This Week As alluded to yesterday, in what has to be the greatest tragedy since that time Lauren Conrad went out with that one boring guy who didn’t pay attention to her and then the next day Whitney was like, “Whaaaaaat?” and Lauren was like, “I know!”….. Lauren Conrad sold a three book […]
Welcome!
Holy Tyra! Thanks so much to the Blogger team for making this today’s Blog of Note, and a warm welcome to everyone visiting for the first time. We talk about books, reality TV shows, publishing, monkeys, writing, and Cormac McCarthy, not necessarily in that order. If you’re a writer (and really, who isn’t these days?) […]
This Week in Publishing 8/22/08
This is a seriously linktastic This Week in Publishing, so let’s get right to it. Let’s see… hmm… where to begin….. Wait, I know! Franz Kafka’s taste in porn! Oh, and you thought I was joking. Via Publishers Lunch, a controversy is brewing because a British scholar Went There and detailed Kafka’s penchant for prOn. […]
