Ravenmasters and cults
A couple of cool book deals caught my attention this week, via Publishers Marketplace. First up, how cool would it be to have “ravenmaster” on your business card? Seems that’s a real job and Christopher Skaife has it. He had previously signed a book deal back in March and just added some international deals this…
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Jimmy Buffett’s new cookbook will help you grill and chill
Say what you want about Jimmy Buffett (and I will?I can’t stand his music), but the man knows how to make a buck. (And it’s not genetic?contrary to what many believe, he is not related to Warren Buffett.) But Buffett (the Jimmy one) has transformed the art of the three-minute pop song into an easy…
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Yoga, a cookbook, a guitar shredder, and me
When a chef from a yoga retreat where I met a guitar god signs a deal for a largely vegetarian cookbook, that catches my attention. Lots going on in that sentence, so let’s go through it point by point. Publishers Marketplace is reporting that Jeremy Rock Smith, executive chef at the Kripalu Center for Yoga…
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Who Murdered Fonzie?
Interesting news of a publishing deal today, via Publisher’s Marketplace: James Boice, author of MVP has sold a comedic noir entitled Who Killed the Fonz? that “picks up the story of HAPPY DAYS two decades later, in the year 1984, and finds successful Los Angeles screenwriter Richie Cunningham returning to Milwaukee to investigate the suspicious…
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The inevitability of book deals
There are shortcomings to energetically following any industry. If you’re a sportswriter, you learn that heroes are actually fallible and sometimes frail human beings. If you are a tech blogger, you probably get sick of hearing new pitches about how this gadget is going to “make the world a better place.” If you constantly write…
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