Like a Clueless Software Boss
When I face lengthy airplane rides, I try to bring a variety of books. In addition to mindless entertainment reads, I bring at least one serious piece of literature along with one substantial nonfiction text. I find that a massive nonfiction tome with footnotes, endnotes, appendices, forewards, and afterwords gives me something to really dive into…
continue readingThe Query Version of Pulling Pigtails
You remember when you were a little boy? And the best way to show you had a crush on a girl was to tease her, make fun of her braces, put bugs in her lunch, and pull her pigtails? The always enjoyable Miss Snark presents a query letter written by an author who is clearly still in…
continue readingStill More Lawsuit News
The LA Times picked up a Bloomberg News report about still another literary lawsuit. Former Yale Law School researcher John Lott is claiming that Steven Levitt and HarperCollins Publishers Inc. damaged his reputation with the publication of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. In the book, Levitt writes that other scholars had been…
continue readingRecycling Titles
Hillel Italie, AP National Writer, examines the frequency of publishers using recycled titles.
continue readingThe Da Vinci Fence and Operation: Fashion Variety
WCAX-TV in Burlington, VT reported that bestselling author Dan Brown has started construction on a wrought-iron fence around his home in Rye, NH. The report stated that Brown’s attorney said that the author didn’t want to fence himself in, but that he needs to protect the privacy and safety of his family. The Portsmouth Herald reported that…
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