Jun 14 2011
I received Go the F to Sleep in PDF form in two different email boxes. One in my Dear Author account and one emailed to me by a personal, non book friend. I knew when it had hit my personal inbox, that Go the F to Sleep had hit piracy levels that I hadn’t seen [...]
May 25 2010
I just had a debate with author Ann Somerville about book titles. I'd complained I found some of her book titles hard to memorise, such as Somatesthesia (book info at Samhain and a dictionary entry at Dictionary.com) and Interstitial (book info at Samhain and a dictionary entry at Merriam Webster). As I explained to her, [...]
May 18 2010
Allow me to tell you a story. Recently, I had the honor of premiering a cover for a science fiction romance book on my blog. The cover for R. Garland Gray's Darkscape: First Heir excited me because it had a combination of SF and romance elements that hit the right balance. Naturally, I'm thinking, this [...]
Jan 7 2010
Dear Ms. Leigh: Arm Candy was one of the first Harlequin Blaze novels I ever read; in fact, it was a book I read early on in my Romance reading (what can I say: I started late). Right away, though, I knew there was something especially fun about the book, from the amusing zingers about [...]
Jul 22 2009
Dear RWA: It looks like next year, you’ll have to disqualify at least one New York publishing house from the RITAs next year. Hopefully you have someone looking into this right now and will be making an announcement in the interest of fairness and equity. According to an editor, one New York house is not [...]
May 12 2009
According to PublishersMarketplace (subscription needed), the data shows that there is close to 1 million Kindles out in the wilds of readerdom and that the previously provided statistic that if a book is available in print and Kindle, 1 out of 3 purchases is a Kindle purchase is confirmed by at least one major publisher. [...]
May 12 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Back during our April Fool festivities when I pretended I was an agent and had stolen Ann Aguirre away from the fabulous Laura Bradford, I posted Ann’s faux deal involving a story featuring weredeer. Courtney Milan joined in the fun and blogged about how wereruminants had already been done [...]
Dec 2 2008
I almost always read the epigraph and the dedication but I rarely read an Author’s Note, Acknowledgments, or Letter to the Reader. I also can’t recall ever reading the “extra” stuff at the end (often found in the Avon A books). What about you?
Sep 19 2008
We know that there is alot of stock photography used in cover art today leading to very similar cover images: Is it less damaging if the recycling is in the titles? Two books. One Title. Both Contemporaries. Released one week apart. Oops. Possibly worse? Diana Holquist’s RITA Nominee published last year featuring movie star hero [...]
Jun 6 2008
Sramana Mitra writes in a recent article that an Amazon Monopoly that eliminates the editors, agents, distributors, and everyone else that stands between Amazon and the customer (other than the author) can actually improve publishing and increase the monetary benefit to the author. The suggestion is that by eliminating the middleman, it frees up a [...]
Feb 3 2008
The New York Times has an interesting article about technology and how it is helping many of us work smarter and faster in the workplace but for writers it just means a longer lag time between when they submit a book and when it finally gets published. Enter us humans. “We move too slowly and [...]
Feb 3 2008
Movie sound tracks make very little money in the marketplace so Mark Cuban has an idea to make better use of the music. It takes a lot of cash to promote a movie so Mark wonders how many more people would go to the movie if they knew that their movie ticket stub had a [...]
Dec 19 2007
moar funny pictures I have to just give a plug for my dear friend, Tina Trevaskis, who is now the new Romance/Horror & Westerns Marketing Specialist at Borders Group Inc. Tina is a huge lover of romance. I met Tina over 7 years ago (I think) due to our mutual love of romance. Of course, [...]
Nov 5 2007
In the UK, there is a a move toward including marketing materials with each book checked out from the library. In libraries in Essex, Somerset, Bromley, Leeds and Southend, up to 500,000 promotional flyers will be handed out to patrons. The solicitations will be placed on the inside cover where the due date can be [...]
Sep 11 2007
In an interesting move, Adobe is giving away two major pieces of intellectual property away for free. Earlier this year, it released Premiere Express, an online video editor. Available at YouTube (known as YouTube Remixer), MTV.com and Photobucket, the video editor allows you to upload your video and use the program to cut the video, [...]
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