Oct 12 2012
Author’s Guild v Hathi Trust: A Win for Copyright’s Public Interest Purpose – Nancy Sims has a really fantastic write up of the Hathi Trust Fair Use win from yesterday. Hathi Trust is a consortium of five majority universities who built a digital library of over 10 million books, over 76% that are still in(…)
Jul 16 2012
30 Tremendous Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography – “Tilt-Shift photography is an amazing part of talent in which photographer utilizes his skills and technique of photography that develops tilt-shift lenses to beat the boundaries of strength of ground and outlook that normal lenses present” Bloggs 74 Let’s start the day out with something cool. I love tilt(…)
Dec 30 2011
News Bayou Arcana is due out in the UK shortly. I can’t find it in the U.S. but it is a “southern gothic” horror anthology that brings together an all female team of artists and all male team of writers. From the Guardian: “There is a certain sensitivity that you find in women’s art that(…)
Oct 17 2011
Congress is asking Amazon to explain its SILK service. SILK is the service that Amazon will be using to speed up browser access on its tablet. Rather than spend the money on building a faster processor like Apple’s A5, Amazon has developed SILK which takes in web content and then optimizes it for the Kindle(…)
Oct 10 2011
USA Today launched a blog devoted to romances. Huzzah! Author Joyce Lamb, a copy editor for the paper and author of romantic suspenses published by Berkley, heads up the blog. Mandi S is one of the reviewers. Her blog is here. Other readers and authors will be contributing. It’s great to see positive coverage of(…)
Mar 29 2010
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the official release of the April books. Most Avon and Random House books are released on the last Tuesday of every month. Kensington, Grand Central, and Harlequin have an official release date of the first of every month with Berkley/Jove/Signet/NAL books being released on the first Tuesday of every month.(…)
Jun 11 2009
ACE has partnered with Dabel Brothers to bring a second series of Patricia Briggs’ to the comic crowd. The Mercy Thompson series has already been adapted by Dabel Brothers (has anyone seen one?). The Alpha and Omega series will debut in August as a four part comic series to be fully encapsulated in a graphic(…)
Apr 2 2009
This? Legendary. At least to comic book fans I am piqued by hype First impression: LOOOOOOOONG. Story is intricate and Convoluted too. Quick recap for newbs: Watchmen used to be heroes Govt made them retire One ends up murdered The others reunite to Try and save the world. The heroes are a Bit hard to(…)
Jun 19 2008
Marjorie Liu, author of the soon to be released, The Iron Hunt, has been writing for Marvel Comics in starting in August, her books will be relanuching the NYX X-book series featuring mutant teens living homeless in the streets of New York City. You can read more about the creative team’s efforts in this IGN(…)
Jan 25 2008
Patricia Briggs has signed with Dabel Brothers Publishing to produce a four episode? comic mini-series featuring Mercy Thompson to be released in the fall of 2008 with a hardcover collection from Del Rey in 2009. Via ICv2 News. Send to Kindle
Nov 14 2007
Marvel Comics is joining the digital publishing move by making available over 2500 back issues including “the first appearances of Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.” In the future, new issues won’t be available online until six months after the print publication date. To sell people on the idea of paying for content that(…)
Nov 8 2007
Dear Ms. Estep: I enjoyed the first book, Karma Girl, and found that the comic book homage is still fun in Hot Mama. However, like the first book, I find that there is problem of pacing which results from the difficult balance between the emotional arcs the characters and the comic book capers. Fiona Fine,(…)
Nov 5 2007
Jennifer Estep’s sophomore book, Hot Mama, was reviewed in Entertainment Weekly (the issue with Johnny Depp on the cover). The book was the only romance reviewed this week and received a grade of B. You can read the entirety of the review at Estep’s blog. Send to Kindle
Sep 13 2007
Dear Ms. Croft: I really wanted to like this book. I like the publishing house. I met the authors behind the psuedonym (Larissa Ione and Stephanie Tyler) and they seem totally great. Unfortunately, nothing in this story actually worked for me. The book opens with a heavy sexual overtone and never relents. Riding the Storm(…)
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