Publishing Newsbrick and mortar4 Comments
First, tomorrow is our Book Club discussion of The Last Hour of Gann by R Lee Smith. I asked the author some hard questions and she took them on. I think it was one of the more interesting and provoking author interviews partly because I’m a pretty inept interviewer but ... more >
Publishing Newsbrick and mortar / scottish historical / zombies15 Comments
‘Outlander’ books to be adapted as Starz series – This will be welcome news to some readers and painful for others. 16 episodes of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander have been ordered by Starz. Filming is to begin this fall and will premiere sometime in 2014. According to the USA Today article, ... more >
Publishing NewsAbout-Us / book business / brick and mortar / digital rights management / Maya-Banks24 Comments
I can hardly believe it is already Thursday. The holiday shortened week (for the US readers) and last week’s RWA conference has me all mixed up. Hopefully I will get caught up by Sunday. Item number one today is the news that we are going to host a Q&A with ... more >
Features / Publishing Newsbrick and mortar / Conventions / digital publishing / Ebooks / Harlequin / Harlequin Horizons / HarperCollins / Manga / publishing / RITA / self-published21 Comments
Explicit sex is hard to write well and even if you do write it well, it means you are just packaging up pornography for women. Also, bla bla bla, romance books are killing romance bla bla bla. All according to this article by Alan Elsner. I don’t plan to comment ... more >
Publishing NewsBorders / brick and mortar2 Comments
Due to increased competition from both brick and mortar and online bookstores, Borders opened a new concept store it hopes will eventually increase sales. Most of the store looks like the competition except for an area described as a digital center. At this new digital center one could download ... more >