Conversationsbook titles / book-covers / chat / grammar / marketing / publishing trends18 Comments
Recently, Jayne, myself and a friend of ours (someone who writes grammar textbooks) had this conversation: Jayne: I just started The Ex Hex and am hoping for a cutesy rom-com. We’ll see what I get. Janine: Have you noticed how The [Adjective] [Noun] titles have become a trend in contemporary ... more >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing Newsauthorial persona / book-covers / cover-art / holiday cards / octopus / reader expectations / Satire / social mediaComments Off on Monday News: “Literary necrophilia,” octopi, history of book covers, and bad holiday cards
Book Lovers: Literary Necrophilia in the 21st Century – A very interesting piece from Joanna Walsh on the continually evolving relationship between author and text. The necrophilia in the title relates in part to the conceptual “death of the author,” and the reader’s attempt to mark their relationship to the ... more >
Publishing Newsauthor websites / best of lists / book-covers / FCC / Liz-Carlyle / motherhood / net neutrality / Netflix / photography4 Comments
Liz Carlyle kills her website – An astute reader noticed that Liz Carlyle shut down her website this week, leaving a short note referencing her retirement and sending readers to Amazon. There is a sense of finality to this move, of course, but also a deprivation of potential resources to ... more >
Publishing Newsaudiobooks / book-covers / Ebooks / gender and film / Vellum / Wonder Woman2 Comments
The Complex Gender Politics of the ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie – The title of this article might be better represented as “the complex gender politics of commentary on the ‘Wonder Woman’ movie,” because it gets tripped up by some of the same pitfalls it tries to point out. For example, the piece ... more >
Publishing Newsalgorithms / anonymity / book bags / book-covers / Fanny Hill / gender / genre / obscenity3 Comments
Deep Neural Network Learns to Judge Books by Their Covers – Two researchers at Japan’s Kyushu University – Brian Kenji Iwana and Seiichi Uchida – created an algorithm to detect genre by book cover image. Although their results were not stunning (exact match only 20% of the time and top three 40% ... more >