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October 27, 2017

Friday News: RIP Miranda Neville and some less important stuff

JanetPublishing NewsDisney / Halloween / historical romance / Kirkus / Miranda Neville / obituary / poets / prison / reviews9 Comments

Miranda Neville has passed away – If you are on Twitter, you have probably seen that the wonderful and talented Miranda Neville passed away peacefully yesterday morning. She had been struggling with cancer, and her last general tweet, on September 30th, was one announcing an “unexpected surgery.” An extremely talented ... more >

March 31, 2017

Friday News: Iron Man v Radix, rare books, protest poets, and the Edible Book Festival

JanetPublishing Newsactivist poets / Cesar Chavez Day / copyright / Disney / Edible Book Festival / Iron Man / Marvel / Radix / rare books6 Comments

Comic-book artists claim Iron Man ripped off their ideas – Following up on the copyright story from yesterday’s news, this lawsuit filed by Ben and Ray Lai against Marvel and Disney for infringement of their Horizon Comics’ Radix series gets at some of the considerations when looking at whether a character is ... more >

November 29, 2016

Tuesday News: Free book by Mei Fong, German & Irish router flaw, research behind Moana, and happy birthday Louisa May Alcott

JanetPublishing NewsChinese language publishing / Disney / Google Doodle / Little Women / Louisa May Alcott / malware / Moana / research2 Comments

A Pulitzer winner is giving away her book in Chinese because the topic scared off publishers – Although Mei Fong’s One Child was published almost a year ago in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, she hasn’t been able to sell the book to a Chinese language publisher in Hong Kong, China, ... more >

July 29, 2016

Friday News: The Rocketeers, Andrew Luck Book Club, Elon Musk’s book PR, and euphemisms

JanetPublishing Newsbook clubs / Disney / Elon Musk / euphemisms / language / The Rocketeers2 Comments

DISNEY TO REBOOT “THE ROCKETEER” WITH BLACK FEMALE LEAD – Cult classic film “The Rocketeer” is getting a sequel/reboot (are those two things contradictory?), and it looks like perhaps someone got the memo that Hollywood needs more diversity: “The Rocketeers” will take place six years after the original Rocketeer disappeared while fighting ... more >

July 28, 2016

Thursday News: Verizon + Yahoo, Romance for Libertarians, and Alice in Wonderland

JanetPublishing NewsAlice in Wonderland / Disney / FCC / libertarianism / Verizon / Yahoo2 Comments

Verizon’s Yahoo Buy May Spark FCC Privacy Scrutiny – An interesting take on the acquisition of Yahoo by Verizon. The $4.8 billion deal is likely to be approved without much difficulty, experts claim, but the nature of the acquisition – that an ISP is acquiring such a data-rich resource – is likely ... more >

Samhain
July 7, 2016

Thursday News: Samhain, the male gaze, and Disney can’t save Donald Trump

JanetPublishing Newsanti-Semitism / digital publishing / Disney / male gaze / Samhain / sexism8 Comments

Samhain was never closing? – So, we’ve always been rooting for Samhain, and for readers it was good news to hear recently that the publisher wasn’t going to have to complete its “wind-down to close” detailed in this letter from Christina Brashear. Understandably, that apparent turnaround frustrated some authors who had books ... more >

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