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 >
First Sale / InterviewsBarry Eisler / first-sale14 Comments
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. See in last week’s opinion piece about difficult protagonists by Barry Eisler, I wasn’t able to post a picture of the aforementioned hated hair, but ... more >
Letters of Opinionantihero / Barry Eisler / special ops28 Comments
I met Barry Eisler at RT 2009. I was sure I wasn’t going to like him. I mean, here he was at RT, a male author amongst a cavalcade of women, with his long hair and shiny white teeth. But I actually got to sit down and talk with Barry ... more >
Letters of Opinionauthor / Barry Eisler / covers / publishing143 Comments
A common refrain arising out of last week’s Magic Under Glass cover controversy is that authors are afraid to speak out against their publishers — even over racial misrepresentation on their covers. It seems authors fear that if they speak out they could be labeled as troublesome, and that the ... more >