So That’s Why I Haven’t Heard From That Editor
Gawker received a leaked email from Conde Nast Publications yesterday detailing their email problems. According to the Executive Director of Information Systems & Technology, the publishing goliath is “experiencing unusually long delays in the delivery of out-going email from several of our New York offices.” Which absolutely explains why I haven’t received my acceptance from The…
continue readingSummers Signs Book Deal
Also on the always informative Publishers Marketplace was a news announcement that Andy Summers, guitar player extraordinaire and former member of The Police, signed a book deal in Britain for his autobiography. Entitled One Train Later, the book goes “from his early days on the Bournemouth and London music scenes to the height of world-wide…
continue readingActing Quickly On This One
No doubt salivating at getting the Scott & Laci Petterson crowd to open up their wallets again, book folks are already encircling the Neil Entwistle case. Publishers Marketplace ran a report yesterday that Brian McDonald has sold an untitled nonfiction book on Entwistle, the British man accused of murdering his wife and baby in Massachusetts to St.…
continue readingJones Interviewed at The Cult
Stephen Graham Jones was one of the first authors to grace us with an interview and his work is always a blessing. His new book, Demon Theory, is scheduled for release later this spring and his shiny new website is up and running. And to top it all off, there is a fantastic interview with Stephen over…
continue readingRIP Peter Benchley
There were numerous reports on Sunday (here’s one from CNN) that Peter Benchley, author of Jaws and other books, passed away at the age of 65. Benchley was an advocate for shark research and protection, as his wife recalled, “Peter kept telling people the book was fiction, it was a novel, and that he no more…
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