Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >