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 >
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 >
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 >
Because sleep is for the dead, I spent some time in the past few weeks compiling a list of upcoming books. I hope you find this helpful. I have more to add (see the prefatory note on the upcoming books page). ***** In the UK, authors receive a royalty every ... more >
Here is another new summer reviewer, Sunita, and her take on Sherry Thomas’ release, His at Night. Dear Ms. Thomas, When romance novel readers bring up their favorite books, yours are among the first and most frequently cited as exemplary works in current historical romance. Your prose is lyrical and ... more >
Generation Y women like social networking and sharing their thoughts on the products that they buy. This is, apparently, news. It is not something that ebook manufacturers have caught on yet, though. The current ebook reader enthusiast is a 47-year-old married man with a household income in excess of 6 ... more >