Yep. I read it. I have a series of reactions to Fifty Shades of Grey: 1) This book is popular. I mean, really, really popular. It is bigger than Harry Potter popular in the UK, it was responsible for 20% of all book sales in the spring, it sold 25 million copies in 4 months; […]
Twilight
This Week in Books 8/2/12
Relatively quiet weeks in books as the dog days of summer are here, but I spotted a few good ones for you. As always, please share the best ones you saw in the comments section! Colson Whitehead, who is spectacular on Twitter, is equally spectacular in the pages of the NY Times as he has […]
Kids Books Are Not Just For Kids Anymore
Hansel und Gretel One of the interesting aspects of watching my pal/novel Jacob Wonderbar enter the world has been the reaction of the people who reside outside of the book blogosphere. I’ve been living/virtual-breathing in the book world for so long I forget there are adults out there who don’t make a habit of reading […]
Who Would Be Your Literary BFF?
By: Rachel Bertsche Can you smell the sharpened pencils in the air? It’s the delicious scent of another school year underway. Kids are cracking open new books and diving into the likes of Great Expectations or The Things They Carried or Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Though my school days are behind me, as […]
Professionalism (It’s not what you think it is)
By: Hannah Moskowitz This post has nothing to do with writing and absolutely everything to do with being a writer. The stereotype of a writer–the middle-aged man pounding feverishly at a typewriter, cigarette in his mouth, sending hard-copy manuscripts to his agent and protesting the change of every word–has yet to catch up with the […]
This Week in Publishing 10/8/10
Tento týden v publikování… First off, thank you so much to everyone who entered the Guest Blog Contest Festival Event! There were actually so many spectacular entries that I decided to expand the number of contest winning slots. That’s right folks, this blog is going seven days a week. Well. At least until I get […]
