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Sales, Earnings Fell by Double-Digits at PRH – Wow, Penguin Random House has experienced a more than 10% decrease in both sales and earnings over last year (first six months). Apparently declining ebook sales and currency exchange rates have contributed to the decline. I wonder how the massive downsizing and decimation of ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsACE-ROC / diversity / ghosts / LGBTQIA / New York City / Penguin Random House / POC / POC author / Urban-FantasyComments Off on REVIEW: Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel José Older
Dear Mr. Older, Last year, I read your debut novel Half-Resurrection Blues and loved it. For me, it was a refreshing take on urban fantasy – and long-time Dear Author readers will know how I feel about that subgenre! The narrative voice was beautiful. It was like music captured in ... more >
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Alan Rickman dead: Harry Potter actor had the most perfect voice, according to science – Like David Bowie, Alan Rickman died at 69 from cancer. Eerie and sad, to say the least. While there are many wonderful tributes to the actor online (I love this one on Rickman as a “working ... more >
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Penguin Merges Berkley Into Putnam/Dutton – Attributed to “declining mass market sales,” the Berkley imprint will now be part of the Putnam and Dutton group. This news is especially noteworthy, since Berkeley publishes a good deal of PRH’s Romance fiction. According to Madeline McIntosh, president of the Penguin Publishing Group, the ... more >
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Amber Quill Closing – Emily Veinglory reports on the imminent closure of Amber Quill, which opened in 2002. According to a thread on Absolute Write, the digital publisher will be shutting its doors as of March 31, 2016, at which point all rights will revert back to authors. As Veinglory notes, ... more >
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How Instagram Became the New Oprah’s Book Club – Forget Twitter – Instagram is now the best, most influential platform for books. The fact that you can see a book in a pretty little picture is apparently far superior to the 140-character Twitter blurb (even though you can have pictures on ... more >