"Your brilliant book, Always": a copy editing tale
From: Kit Not really a question; rather, a sincere ‘thank you’; I have just read Always while working in Grand Cayman, and…
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The future of queer publishing
Over at LambdaLiterary there are four video clips of a recent panel held in West Hollywood, The Future of Queer Publishing. The…
Read moreThe literary agent, role and payment, plus more Clarion photos
There’s an interesting conversation going on at the moment about the role of the literary agent and how they could/should get paid….
Read moreThe future of publishing
Penguin are beginning to figure out that the trick to business success is to listen to your customers. That is, the end…
Read morequeer literary community: our time is coming
Elliott Bay, one of Seattle’s storied independent book shops, is moving from Pioneer Square to Capitol Hill. It’s good news for me….
Read morethe changing publishing landscape
Kassia Krozser and Lev Grossman talked to Jeffrey Brown on NewsHour recently about ‘the shifting world of book publishing’, and ‘how technology…
Read morePW’s death knell?
Publishers Weekly really screws up: “Every year, PW selects its top 100 books, and for the first time ever PW has upped…
Read morevodka and The Marketing ‘Plan’
Want to know what it’s like to be a novelist these days? You sell the novel over a pleasant dinner (or an…
Read moreaccess! the BookServer project
I’m off the grid for the next few days, but I’ve put together a few posts to go up in my absence……
Read morereclaiming your copyright
I’ve just read a fabulously informative post by Jane over on Dear Author. As the Supreme Court in 1943 opined that “authors…
Read moreguess who gets crushed in Wal-Mart vs. Amazon?
Amazon and Wal-Mart are fighting a book-price war. Walmart cut the price of their new hardcovers (blockbusters by Stephen King, John Grisham…
Read moreBarnes & Noble, ebooks competitor–not
For those who don’t follow publishing industry news, there’s been a lot of noise recently about Barnes & Noble’s new ebook store….
Read moreDRM or no?
Quick link: just wanted to point readers at this interesting conversation about digital rights management and ebooks going on at thedigitalist.net. I’m…
Read moreinput, please, on a publishing idea
I’ve never published a short story collection before* because of the tendency of booksellers to look at sales of an author’s last…
Read morepublishing is dead, I’m grinning
Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride… Yee ha! I’ve just read this Times article about the depths serious historians…
Read moreBook Glutton widget
Blimey. Watch this video about the new widget from Book Glutton. I honestly don’t know what to make of this. I think…
Read moreschematic of publishing trends
Oooh, this is cool. A Tube-type map of publishing trends and buzzwords of the last year: The thing is, all it does…
Read morevotes are in
The final results are in for our publishing co-op vote. In order of popularity: 27 (the world: the end multi-chapter epic), 20…
Read moreozymandias: more publishing co-op
For those who are new, welcome. Four weeks ago, I rather quixotically launched a co-operative publishing initiative. Lots of people have since…
Read morepublishing: permaculture vs. slash-and-burn
I’ve been having follow-up thoughts to our creative co-op. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about please read this post.) I’ve…
Read morenext steps, and a deadline
Yes, a deadline for our creative cooperative–but don’t panic. Like an amateur dramatic society, I’m choosing a date absurdly far away: Monday,…
Read morenext steps…coming soon
I think I’m sort of an anti-Samson. When my hair gets too long I get stupid. I’m getting shaggy and today my…
Read moretalk is cheap
Yesterday I did a blog post about my idea for a creative publishing cooperative. I got pretty excited, so did many people…
Read moreI have a dream
Well, I have lots of dreams, but we don’t talk about that. No, today I want to talk about my publishing dream….
Read moreupdate on publishing stuff
I’ve just read a long (but not too long) blog post by Moonrat, an editor (via Nathan Bransford). It says a lot…
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