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Summer reading 23 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
Thanks again to everyone who made recommendations here and on Twitter for my vacation reading. While in Greece, I ended up devouring the phenomenal Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple; enjoyi...
Cool publishing news 23 Aug 2013 | 12:26 am
I’m always heartened to hear about books selling and new opportunities for authors. This week we’ve had a couple of stories in the news that speak to both of these things. First, The Today Show, a lo...
50 Years in 10 Books? 22 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I realize that this infographic is not new, but I found it a little staggering. Granted, an infographic is only as accurate as the data from ...
Less is more 21 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
I judge books by their covers. Literally. And so does everyone else. Lately, I’ve handed down some pretty harsh judgments. Not many covers have really called to me in recent months. In fact, the cove...
When traditional publishing works! 19 Aug 2013 | 08:33 pm
With book publishing undergoing such major changes and so many of my colleagues and clients discouraged by these, one wonders whether the experience of having a first book published will ever be as s...
Cats! Books! Friday! 16 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
I’m often made fun of for not being very good at the internet. By that I don’t mean being incapable of Googling or not knowing how to properly use email, but that I often pick out what I think are hil...
Speaking of 15 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
When I was but an intern at DGLM, one of the things that most appealed to me about the agent job was the odd mix of the solitary and the social. For me, it satisfied two very different sides of my per...
Pigeonholing (sounds kinda nasty, right?) 14 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
We think a lot around here about authors getting pigeonholed into certain categories because one (or more) of their books was a success and now they are expected to keep writing variations on the same...
Read-A-Thon 14 Aug 2013 | 01:34 am
The other weekend I participated in a Read-a-thon. Organized by some book bloggers that I follow, the Read-a-thon goal was a relatively unambitious 24-in-48. That is, read for 24 hours out of a 48-hou...
Getting away from it all 13 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
For almost two weeks now, I’ve been on the road. I spent a few days in Portland, Oregon, at the Willamette Writers Conference, followed by a week of vacation in mid-coast Maine. And actually, I’m stil...
