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May 21, 2012

Monday Midday Links: IPDF proposes ‘Light Weight DRM’; Self Pub author meltdown

JaneBook ReviewsAmazon / Author Issues / digital lending / digital rights management / plagiarism / Waterstones15 Comments

Giveaways (not taking place here) The editor, Harrison Demchick, of The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns (a recommended read by Robin aka Janet) and The Understory written by Elizabeth Leiknes, wrote us to let us know about a giveaway the publishing house is running to celebrate the release of The Understory. ... more >

August 3, 2009

As a Reader Are You Bothered by Authors Speaking Out About their Publishers

JaneFeatures / PollAuthor Issues / Author Reader Relationship55 Comments

A few years back, Anne Stuart publicly voiced her concern that she wasn’t getting sufficient publishing support from Harlequin. She took an enormous amount of flack for this.   Recently, Susan Andersen stated in her newsletter to readers that her trilogy would not be finished due to decisions made by the ... more >

June 29, 2009

Authors Behaving Badly

JaneFeatures / PollAuthor Issues / Literary Criticism / poll56 Comments

Last night, on Twitter, Alice Hoffman totally lost her shit over a review written by novelist Roberta Silman at the Boston Globe. As Ron Hogan so beautifully summed it up: In addition to playing the Famous Writer Card on Twitter, Hoffman also played, among others, the Feminist Card (“Girls are ... more >

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