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miranda-neville
October 27, 2017

Friday News: RIP Miranda Neville and some less important stuff

JanetPublishing NewsDisney / Halloween / historical romance / Kirkus / Miranda Neville / obituary / poets / prison / reviews9 Comments

Miranda Neville has passed away – If you are on Twitter, you have probably seen that the wonderful and talented Miranda Neville passed away peacefully yesterday morning. She had been struggling with cancer, and her last general tweet, on September 30th, was one announcing an “unexpected surgery.” An extremely talented ... more >

Wonder Woman
January 27, 2016

Wednesday News: Kitty-in-Boots, Fakespot, #1000BlackGirlBooks, and Scotland in comic book movies

JanetPublishing News#100BlackGirlBooks / Amazon / Beatrix Potter / cats / children's literature / Comic books / diversity / fake reviews / Movies / reviews / Scotland4 Comments

100 Years Later, Beatrix Potter’s Tale Of A Fanciful Feline To Be Published – Penguin UK editor Jo Hanks happened to find an unfinished copy of a new Beatrix Potter series, Kitty-in-Boots, that Potter had hoped to finish, were it not for World War I and other “interruptions.” Because Potter had ... more >

Neuromancer by William Gibson
October 22, 2015

Thursday News: Harriet Klausner dies, Kindle “catfishers,” best SF books(?), and new iPhone emojis

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Apple / best of list / emojis / Harriet Klausner / iPhone / Kindle / reviews / SFF6 Comments

Obituary: Harriet Klausner – Janine kindly forwarded me a tweeted reference to Klausner’s obituary, which was the first I heard of her death. Indeed, I can otherwise find no mention of her death, outside of a reference to her date of death as October 15th on her Wikipedia page. Although the ... more >

October 20, 2015

Tuesday News: Amazon tracks down fake reviews, awards and book quality, authors and readers, and writing as a second job

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / authors / Book Awards / fake reviews / fiverr / Joanne Harris / lawsuit / readers / reviews / writing advice9 Comments

Amazon sues 1,114 reviewers, some selling their opinions for $5 – So it seems that the ubiquity and brazenness of of positive reviews for sale on Fiverr has finally backfired. Amazon has filed suit against more than a thousand for-profit fake review sellers (I won’t even call these folks reviewers, because they ... more >

September 21, 2015

Monday News: RIP Jackie Collins, HC’s global campaign, fake app reviews, and public domain martial arts movies

JanetPublishing Newsapplications / bonkbuster / fake reviews / films / global publishing market / Harper Collins / Jackie Collins / martial arts / obituary / public domain / publishing / reviews3 Comments

Novelist who redefined the ‘bonkbuster’ genre with her tales of bad behaviour in Hollywood. Source: The Telegraph Thank you to Katie F., who answered my Twitter call for a good obituary on Jackie Collins. I think this long profile from The Telegraph is great, because not only does it treat her work ... more >

September 11, 2015

Friday News: Criticism, journalism, feminism, and swearing

JanetPublishing Newsbook criticism / censorship / Erica Jong / feminism / gender / journalism / Los Angeles Times / Newspapers / Race / reviews / Roxane Gay / Ted Dawe / YA3 Comments

Is Everyone Qualified to Be a Critic? -Adam Kirsch and Charles McGrath debate the question of criticism – namely whether there should be formal “qualifications.” McGrath laments what he seems to see as a general degradation of critical writing these days (ah, the good old days!), and argues that informed ... more >

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