Harry Impacts
Now that merchants have had some time to sift through the empty boxes, vacuum the floors from foot traffic, and figure out just what Hurricane Harry did to book sales, the numbers are staggering. The Associated Press is reporting that the New Harry Potter novel sold an astonishing 6.9 million copies in its first 24…
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Australian Max Barry, author of Syrup and Jennifer Government has a great blog where he ruminates on writerly matters as well as other topics such as his impending fatherhood. On this site, he has an interesting bit about getting comments back from his editor and having to decipher all the editor-speak. Several weeks ago, Barry…
continue readingHilarious Headline
I have to admit that I’m still learning the snarky-jokey-witty turn of a phrase that characterizes most blogs. I try to play it straight until my inner comedian just can’t be restrained. But although I don’t do the jokey thing all that well, here is an AMAZINGLY hilarious title. First, lemme tell you about the…
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AJ Jacobs signed a deal with editor Geoff Kloske at Simon & Schuster for a book called The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Obey the Bible as Literally as Possible. Sloan Harris at ICM was the agent involved in the deal, reported to be worth between a quarter of a million…
continue readingCongrats to Slushpile Favorites
I’m happy to say that Publishers Lunch is reporting a deal that involves two of our very favorite people. Will Christopher Baer, author of Kiss Me, Judas and others sold three new books of “existential violence and intensity” to one of our favorite editors, Jason Wood at MacAdam/Cage. Too often, I look at the news…
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