Publishing Newsauthor websites / best of lists / book-covers / FCC / Liz-Carlyle / motherhood / net neutrality / Netflix / photography4 Comments
Liz Carlyle kills her website – An astute reader noticed that Liz Carlyle shut down her website this week, leaving a short note referencing her retirement and sending readers to Amazon. There is a sense of finality to this move, of course, but also a deprivation of potential resources to ... more >
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Romance and the bloke — Aussie male romance writers tap into billion-dollar industry – Oh, look; another article on men writing Romance. *sigh* Apparently men who can’t make any money writing other genres in Australia have discovered Romance, and with the availability of self-publishing, they are capitalizing on the opportunity. ... more >
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Would you put books backward? This decor trend has people seriously divided – I would never consider myself compulsive about decorating, but OMG just the idea of this makes me want to flinch back. Beyond the inability to actual recognize the books, why in the hell would you expose the ... more >
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Today’s the Day: Let’s Save Net Neutrality – Note: click past the initial notice on the EFF page – it’s part of their messaging about net neutrality. Also, they have a great avenue to send an email to the FCC. If you need to brush up on the some of ... more >
Publishing NewsMemoir / Nate Parker / net neutrality / One Read / poetry / sexual-assault3 Comments
How To Sell Nearly a Half-Million Copies of a Poetry Book – The success of Rupi Kaur’s poetry collection, Milk and Honey, initially self-published and then picked up by Andrews McMeel Publishing (AMP), is surprising on a number of levels. Especially since AMP has only been publishing poetry since 2013. And it’s poetry, ... more >
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How Net neutrality helped kill the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger – A very interesting analysis on the death of the Comcast – Time Warner merger, particularly in regard to how regulators became more and more resistant to the deal in the wake of the net neutrality debates. Given the incredible ... more >