You still brag about that high school state championship?
So, here’s a book deal that will make you feel like you’ve accomplished almost nothing in your life. “The only member of the U.S. Armed Services to complete SEAL training, U.S. Army Ranger School, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training, and only the 36th African American to become a Navy SEAL in its storied…
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Downing book deal announced
After posting yesterday about hard rock books, I saw an announcement about yet another new release. According to Blabbermouth, former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing will release a memoir in September of this year. His co-author on the project is noted rock writer Mark Eglinton. Downing was one of my favorite interviews for my book…
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Just can’t stop the hard rock book train
There once was a time when book and magazine editors proudly said, “Metalheads don’t read.” But we now know that to embarrassingly incorrect as books by hard rock musicians continue to appear, and sell pretty well. Observers of the genre also continue to come up with new topics and perspectives for memoirs, essays, and critical…
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A cat person?s nine lives
THIS JUST IN: “You Know You Want This” just went to S&S’s imprint, Scout Press, for more than one million dollars, plus an additional novel in the deal. I?m guessing Kristen Roupenian thought she?d scored when her short story, ?Cat Person,? was recently published in The New Yorker. But her own story has just begun;…
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Knopf, Scandinavians, and publishing legends
Knopf is tagging along with another Scandinavian publishing phenomenon. This interesting article in Publisher’s Weekly details how Swedish agent Niclas Salomonsson convinced executives to sign up Lars Kepler. Kepler is the pen name of a husband-and-wife duo who have sold 11 million copies around the world, but failed to crack the United States market. The…
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