February 28, 2018

Wednesday News: Digital books, crossing genres, cover artists, and the “book lady”

JanetPublishing Newsbook recommendations / cover artists / digital books / Dolly Parton / literacy2 Comments

Ebooks are not ‘stupid’ – they’re a revolution – I’ve been thinking a lot about the excellent comments to Monday’s news post, and in particular the interview with Hachette CEO   Arnaud Nourry, and I think this response from author Erin Kelly echoes a lot of the points you all ... more >

February 26, 2018

Monday News: Terry not so Goodkind, ebooks and hardcovers, sexist new video game

JanetPublishing Newsbook-covers / cover artists / digital books / Hachette / hardcovers / video games21 Comments

Terry Goodkind Apologizes to Artist After Trashing Cover to Own Book – When Terry Goodkind called his new book cover “laughably bad,” he was in no way insulting the cover artist. Of course he wasn’t! Who would ever think that?! If you believe his lame “apology,” he was really criticizing ... more >

February 20, 2018

Tuesday News: Misremembering Harlequin, short story machines, ask an ob/gyn, and the Vulgar Tongue

JanetPublishing Newsdictionary / female sexuality / genre history / Harlequin / publishing machines / sex and romance / short stories2 Comments

In Harlequin’s new Dare series, heroines own their sexuality – In general I’ve found it’s better to ignore some of the most ignorant pieces on the Romance genre – because why get riled up over people who don’t, won’t, and don’t even want to get it? But I made an ... more >

February 14, 2018

Wednesday News: Married Love, reading more, Shakespeare’s sources, and V-Day audiobook giveaway

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / giveaway / historical sources / Marie Stope / sex and marriage / Shakespeare5 Comments

What can we learn from Marie Stopes’s 1918 book Married Love? – Rafia Zakaria discusses Stopes’s book, which was published in the era of the First World War – a year before The Sheik – and tackled the issue of sex in marriage. Like much Romance fiction, past and present, Stopes ... more >

January 29, 2018

Monday News: Romance WOC, Walmart + Kobo, magazine archive, and Harry Potter in Scots

JanetPublishing NewsApple / archives / Ebooks / Harry-Potter / Jasmine Guillory / Kobo / magazines / translation / Walmart / women of color in Romance3 Comments

WOMEN OF COLOR AND MAJOR PUBLISHING HOUSE DEALS – So Bitch Media’s Evette Dionne published an interview with Jasmine Guillory on her upcoming debut, The Wedding Date, a Romance published by Berkley. Unfortunately, in their enthusiastic promotion of Guillory and her book, a lot of incorrect assertions about the status of ... more >

January 25, 2018

Thursday News: RIP Ursula Le Guin, the print sales crawl, NBCC finalists, and a deadly book

JanetPublishing Newsarsenic / Book Awards / book-sales / History / NBCC / obituaries / publishing / Ursula Le Guin6 Comments

Ursula K Le Guin, by Margaret Atwood: ‘One of the literary greats of the 20th century’ – I’m sure you know by now that Ursula Le Guin died earlier this week, and there are a ton of obituaries and articles on her life and her work. I have chosen to ... more >