Publishing NewsAdvertising / Ebooks / formatting / harassment / interpretation / learning / Literary Criticism / poetry / reading / social media11 Comments
Ebooks suck for learning – Baldur Bjarnason has written a relatively short but pithy post that brought to mind those articles claiming that digital books are making us stupid, blah blah blah. Bjarnason focuses on the way physical books are formatted to cue us in directions that allow us to ... more >
B- ReviewsAdvertising / Contemporary / cross-dressing / fetish / Loose-Id10 Comments
Sara feels like her life is on track. She has the career of her dreams as a senior art director at one of the hot ad agencies in town. Her only real annoyance is the womanizing account executive in the office next door, Chuck. When Chuck lands a new account, ... more >
Publishing NewsAdvertising / Arundhati Roy / Barnes & Noble / digital books / Nook / novel / Self-publishing / sexism / UK6 Comments
Barnes & Noble to Launch Nook Press in the UK This Week – Barnes & Noble is using the Oxford Literary Festival to introduce its newest self-publishing platform to authors in the UK. Although the platform has been available in the US for almost a year now, self-published authors in ... more >
Publishing NewsAdvertising / condoms / discovery22 Comments
Kmart Goes Balls Out for Christmas Commercial – Apparently Adam Levine is in charge of KMart Men’s department now? So suggests Fashionista who highlighted this recent commercial for celebrating Joe Boxer at KMart. I asked Jayne, who sent me this link to share, that I wasn’t sure how we were ... more >
C ReviewsAdvertising / competition / Harlequin SuperRomance / New-York / opposites attract6 Comments
Dear Ms. Gaines: The book has a very original opening. Rachel Frye is trying to convince her stick in the mud boyfriend not to break up with her. The breakup is bringing out her least favorite trait, shrillness, and is being done in front of her biggest rival, Garret Calder. ... more >
B ReviewsAdvertising / animals / Contemporary / Kristan Higgins / veterinarian14 Comments
Dear Ms. Higgins: I was fairly lukewarm on your last release. I never warmed up to your heroine and I thought your hero was a bit of a milquetoast. Your stories are all told in the first person, from the female protagonist’s point of view and if the reader doesn’t ... more >