May 16 2012
Dear Ms. Huck, Your book “Princess Furball” was recommended to me by etv13, one of our readers here, after I posted a review of the movie “Donkey Skin.” I instantly fell in love with the name since I have two little Princess Furballs at home. Well, I finally got my own copy of the book [...]
May 12 2012
Dear Ms. Griffin, I’m a big Edgar Allan Poe fan. Any book with a title referencing him is always going to get a second look from me. Combined with a striking cover, it’s almost guaranteed I will pick it up. I initially thought Masque of the Red Death was a debut, but your name sounded [...]
May 3 2012
Dear Ms. Norris, I admit I went into your debut novel not knowing much about it. I knew it was a YA. I had an idea about the basic set-up: a girl dies in a car accident and is brought back to life by a classmate. This somehow leads into a race against the clock [...]
Jan 31 2012
Dear Ms. Livesey, The cover song has always occupied a precarious position in the annals of music lovers. On the one hand, it is quite a safe thing to do—cover someone else’s song. One already knows that it is beloved. One already knows what sort of person might like that song. It has a brand, a [...]
Jan 6 2012
First up, no deals today, just the news. I don’t publish this to promote this deal but to share with the reading audience one of the strangest things I have received in my inbox (and trust me, I see a lot of crazy stuff there from more books about dumpster love to velvet Elvis loving). [...]
Dec 28 2011
News HarperCollins has sued Open Road Media for the publication of “Julie of the Wolves”. According to the petition, HarperCollins alleges that Open Road has willfully infringed on HC’s contract with Jean Craighead George which included the provision HC’s “exclusive right to publish George’s children’s novel Julie of the Wolves ‘in book form,’ including [...]
Dec 13 2011
I’m combining the posts for the news and the deals in one. The deals are at the end. First up is the news that Dan Lubart has been hired by HarperCollins as SVP of Sales Analytics according to Publishers Marketplace. I find this fascinating because Lubart’s firm, Iobyte, has been analyzing price data and list [...]
Nov 3 2011
If you own a Kindle device (as opposed to using an App) AND you are a Prime member, you can take advantage of Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. It has about 5,000 titles in there and it’s all non agency books. While Agency publishers (and others) are balking at the potential loss of revenue, I would [...]
Sep 28 2011
Dear Ms. Carson: I remember first hearing about this book when it was sold. The title was so evocative, but then I forgot about it because it is a YA book and while I’ve enjoyed my share of YA books, my preference is to read adult romances. This YA book has a slight romance in [...]
Sep 15 2011
Dear Ms. Pierce, I read your first novel, 666 Park Avenue, earlier this year. In it, readers were introduced to architect Jane Boyle who gets swept up in a whirlwind romance with the man of her dreams, only to discover that not only does she come from a long line of witches, she just married [...]
Aug 17 2011
HarperCollins total year-end results are unclear given that parent company news Corp. did not break out the division in the year-end report. However, the children’s division improved and e-book sales accounted for approximately 12% of all business in the US last year. Source: PW **** Author Dorothea Benton Frank gave an interview to the Columbus [...]
Jul 30 2011
“To their respective families, Jack Wells and Amy Legend are outsiders. A free-spirited man-of-all-trades, Jack takes life as it comes—not at all like his supremely organized mother, the admiral’s widow, and his methodical lawyer sister. Amy, a professional athlete with exquisite taste and golden beauty, has a glamorous career a world apart from her bookish [...]
Jul 18 2011
Enjoy sites like Groupon or Living Social? If so, you aren’t alone. Around 50 million people have used Groupon inviting a hoard of copy cat social coupon sites like locusts to a wheat field. All Things D reports that Hearst Owned magazines will launch its own group commerce site that will launch this summer: The [...]
Apr 11 2011
I confess that I thought about not doing these anymore but apparently the midday links are very popular so onward! In the eyebrow raising department, the pseudo regulatory arm of agenting in the UK is debating whether to remove the prohibit against agents as publishers. Andrew Wylie began publishing his client’s backlists. Agent Sonia Land [...]
Mar 2 2011
The big news in the tech world is that Apple is debuting the iPad 2 today which will be lighter and have better resolution and thus be more attractive to those ebook reading folk. I feel super conflicted about Apple because it is acting like such an asshat about allowing content into its stores. John [...]
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