Interview: Claire Howorth, Publicist
While crappy publicists get the attention (such as the poor soul who provided fodder for every book blogger by emailing folks about the greatness of Pamela Anderson’s new novel) and celebrity publicists get all the headlines (such as Lizzie Grubman’s automobile antics), the truth is that good publicists do a yeoman’s job in letting the…
continue readingHappy Endings and MacAdam/Cage
Our favorites over at MacAdam/Cage take over the Happy Endings Reading Series in New York City tonight. Jack Pendarvis, Kristen den Hartog, and Victoria Vinton are featured as part of this fantastic series. The folks fire it up at 8pm but the doors open at 7:30 with no cover charge for entry. The reading series…
continue readingSoT Underrated Writers List
The fantastic blog Syntax of Things did an amazing job of compiling a list of writers that we all should support. SoT writes, “the “Best of 2005″ lists are already starting to pop up in print and on-line but, really, how many times do you need to be told that Sufjan Stevens made a great…
continue readingWhat, Exactly, Qualifies Haunted As New Fiction?
I was fighting the crowds in a Barnes and Noble the other day, pushing aside old ladies buying kitty calendars for their grandkids and moms piling up those Klutz children’s books that drove me bananas when I worked at a bookstore. I turned the corner and noticed something very odd. Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted was piled…
continue readingPostal Rate Increase Affects Aspiring Authors
All you aspiring authors should keep in mind that the United States Postal Service is raising rates in early January. If you’re pumping out manuscripts now, then your self-addressed-stamped-envelopes need to start carrying the new amount of postage. According to this news release from the USPS website, the wheels have been set in motion to…
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