Publishing NewsAuthors Guild / LGBTQ / Literary Agents / Young-Adult62 Comments
Agents are far more powerful in publishing than many readers understand. They are the ones negotiating contracts with the publishers and can doom or help an author. They are the ones telling authors that x isn’t selling and y isn’t selling. They are the unseen gatekeepers that rarely get mentioned. ... more >
C- ReviewsContemporary / Erotic-Romance / friends-to-lovers / Jaci-Burton / Literary Agents / Penguin / sports romance24 Comments
Dear Ms. Burton: As you know, I really enjoyed The Perfect Play. I love football and I felt like the story captured elements of the athlete hero fairly well. It was scorching hot and had a believable love story with a great heroine. I knew from hints within The Perfect Play and ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Amazon Montlake / Barry Eisler / bundling / buying habits / Google / Literary Agents / Loretta-Chase / self-published74 Comments
Dear Ms. Chase: I don’t have your email address but I had to write you to comment on a note a fan made on your behalf on the Smart Bitches site. You see, your book Captives of the Night(kind of a sequel to the Lord of Scoundrels) caught the attention ... more >
B- ReviewsBritish / Literary Agents / secret society / steampunk23 Comments
Dear Ms. Ballantine and Mr. Morris, I have an uneasy relationship with steampunk. I want to like the genre, but I feel like the label has become so dilute as to be useless. It seems like anything featuring corsets, parasols, tea, and goggles gets labelled steampunk these days. Sure, there’s ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / digital publishing / HarperCollins / Libraries / Literary Agents / Young-Adult43 Comments
I confess that I thought about not doing these anymore but apparently the midday links are very popular so onward! In the eyebrow raising department, the pseudo regulatory arm of agenting in the UK is debating whether to remove the prohibit against agents as publishers. Andrew Wylie began publishing his ... more >
Ebooks / Publishing NewsAmazon / digital publishing / Literary Agents / scholastic10 Comments
Sunita has deemed 2010 as the Year of the Digital Backlist with the news that superagent Andrew Wylie has a) created a digital publishing arm called Odyssey Editions and b) signed a two year exclusive distribution deal with Amazon. From the Amazon Press Release: This is the first time any ... more >