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August 24, 2017

REVIEW: The Cat’s Meow by Lucius Parhelion

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / cats / filmmaking / gay historical / Historical / Hollywood / Hollywood Golden Age / LGBTQ romance / m/m historical romance / short-story5 Comments

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Given how 1930 was shaping up, Fred was thrilled when fulfilling some promises first made by his brother, Charlie, lead to the offer of a studio job. Too bad Fred didn’t ask if Carl Belasco was promised anything other than cat-sitting and help renovating. Dear Lucius Parhelion, I was inclined ... more >

February 17, 2017

Friday News: Disrupting the book, Netflix & theaters, short films, and the world turns through GoT

JanetPublishing Newsdigital media / disruptive technologies / filmmaking / Game of Thrones / History / Netflix1 Comments

Disrupting the book: Serialization, new formats, and AR – We continue to see stories evolve, including their format, and as Ja Ja Liao points out in this post, technologies continue to evolve. Tablets and dedicated e-readers were not the end of the road, nor are smartphones. And now we’re seeing more serialized ... more >

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February 20, 2015

Friday News: KU illegal in France, Marvel’s all-female A-force, diversity and screenwriting, and tricky animal sex

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Comics / diversity / filmmaking / fixed book prices / France / gender / nature / screenwriting / subscription services9 Comments

Kindle Unlimited Ruled Illegal in France – So the French government has determined that Kindle Unlimited violates French laws that require publishers to set book prices. While KU is not the only program affected by this ruling, it’s certainly the largest, and perhaps the most likely to survive the ruling, ... more >

January 22, 2015

Thursday News: a different view of ebooks, Carly Phillips joins Kindle Worlds, women and Hollywood, and cool graphic novel on art

JanetPublishing NewsArt / book-sales / Carly Phillips / digital publishing / Ebooks / fan-fiction / filmmaking / gender / genres / graphic novels / Hollywood / Kindle Worlds / Race10 Comments

What Nielsen Bookscan data tells us about ebook sales cycles & the ebook plateau – This is a great piece that takes some of the other analytical treatments of ebook data and subjects them to a different set of questions and inferences. So instead of stopping at the point where ... more >

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