The Aquisition Process
Agent 007 runs a blog where she describes her transformation from a book editor to agent and she reveals some interesting inside information about the publishing industry. In a post from last week, she describes what it is like to acquire a book as an agent versus what it is like to acquire a book…
continue readingNYT Look at Pub Literature
Speaking of literature, booze, and bars, Jonathan Miles has an interesting article in The New York Times about pub literature. He writes: In many American towns and cities, zoning ordinances decree that churches and bars be buffered from one another by upward of a thousand feet. Among some drinkers, this is known as the ”non-compete…
continue readingBooker Shortlist Announced
All the book blogs are talking about this, so I’ll be brief on this post. Here’s an article from Guardian Unlimited about the trimming down of the 17 books on the Booker Prize longlist. John Banville, Julian Barnes, Sebastian Barry, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith, and Zadie Smith all made the cut. The winner will be…
continue readingRock Novels
Michael Schaub presents a pretty exhaustive list of rock novels over at Bookslut. He even breaks down the list into Punk Rock Novels, Science Fiction Rock Novels, Indie and Alternative Rock Novels, Rock Industry Novels, 1980’s Rock Novels, Rock Star Novels, Amateur/Garage Band Rock Novels, The Best of Rock Novels, and New and Forthcoming Rock…
continue readingGreat Quotes
Agent Noah Lukeman’s 2000 book The First Five Pages: A Writers Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile has some fantastic advice and tips we can all use. We’ll talk about that in a future post. But for now, we’ll focus on the great epigraphs that Lukeman provides at the start of every chapter.…
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