Jeff Kleinman Part of a New Literary Agency
GalleyCat reported on Friday about Folio Literary Management, the newest superagency. The new agency is reported to feature three agents: Scott Hoffman (formerly of PMA Lit & Film), Jeff Kleinman (formerly of Graybill & English), and Paige Wheeler (founder of Creative Media Agency). Contact information has not yet been announced, nor has anything been said about which of…
continue readingA Paperback Da Vinci… Finally
After literally years of speculation about when a paperback version of The Da Vinci Code would be released, details began to trickle out on Friday about an Anchor Books mass-market edition. Publishers Weekly reported that Anchor will release the paperback on March 28, 2006 and although details are closely guarded by the publisher, estimates…
continue readingHundreds and Hundreds of Pages
This is gonna be a big, massive, door-stopper of a book… A item on Publishers Marketplace last week reported that “Lawrence Ross’s expose that looks at every aspect of the adult film industry from the African-American perspective while analyzing the sociological, psychological, and physical effects that pornography has on its participants and viewers” recently sold…
continue readingSony Unveils New E-Book Reader
As all card-carrying gadget geeks know, the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now, bringing visions of a techie utopia to everyone who lusts after the latest cellphone, bluetooth gadget, plasma television, or motorized floating rafts. Myself, I freaking hate cellphones and still lug around my old bag phone that I…
continue readingHigh Praise for Debut Novel
Michiko Kakutani, who I sometimes think of as the Mikey (you know that chubby kid from those old cereal commercials who won’t eat anything) of the literary world. It’s tough to get compliments from this critic. But in a rave New York Times review today, Kakutani writes “Question: what do you get if you…
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