Publishing NewsBarry Eisler / book business / defamation / lawsuits / Rape / Reviewers / self-published / Smashwords67 Comments
In the UK, a self published author is suing a reviewer for panning his book. Chris McGrath, an online entrepreneur from Milton Keynes, who wrote and self-published a little-known book entitled The Attempted Murder of God: Hidden Science You Really Need to Know, has launched libel proceedings against Vaughan Jones, ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Amazon Montlake / Barry Eisler / bundling / buying habits / Google / Literary Agents / Loretta-Chase / self-published74 Comments
Dear Ms. Chase: I don’t have your email address but I had to write you to comment on a note a fan made on your behalf on the Smart Bitches site. You see, your book Captives of the Night(kind of a sequel to the Lord of Scoundrels) caught the attention ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Apple / Barnes & Noble / Barry Eisler / digital publishing / homosexuality / lawsuits38 Comments
Yesterday was a study in opposites. Barry Eisler, a hardcover author of the John Rain series, broke the news that he had turned down a $500,000 offer for two books from St. Martin’s Press and is going to self publish his next Rain book. Eisler is good friends with Joe ... more >
B+ ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Barry Eisler / Military / thriller6 Comments
Dear Mr. Eisler, I was literally in the middle of writing this review when the news broke on Tuesday that an Iranian nuclear physics professor was killed by a bomb left outside his home in Tehran. Now I know that the circumstances of this man’s murder have nothing in common ... more >
A- ReviewsAssassin / Barry Eisler / California / Carolyn Jewel / featured / government / intellectual property / Military / Review / thriller9 Comments
Dear Mr. Eisler: Fault Line was the first book of yours that I’d read. I’ve since read more, by the way. In the past, I have worked at Intellectual Property law firms as well as in the legal department of a Bio-Tech firm, so I am intimate with the portion ... more >