Entertainment Mogul to Appear at Book Soup
Longtime entertainment and sports industry veteran David Fishof is appearing at Book Soup in Los Angeles today at 7:00pm. Once a sports agent to athletes like baseball slugger Lou Pinella and quarterbacks Vince Ferragamo and Phil Simms, Fishof switched his focus to the entertainment world in the eighties. He reunited the Monkees and started the…
continue readingLita Ford Signs Deal with William Morrow
Add guitarist and singer Lita Ford to the burgeoning list of rockers with book deals. [Here’s a round up of hard rock books.] Reports are that the former Runaways member and longtime solo artist has signed a publishing deal with William Morrow for a memoir called Living Like a Runaway. Joel Selvin is flying co-pilot…
continue readingAlgorithmic Content and Publishing: Yet Another Alarm Bell? Or Just a Big Meh?
On Facebook today, the great Chris Offutt referenced a Forbes blog post today. His joking comment was, along the lines of, “But how will we get signed books?” The blog post itself brashly proclaims “How Algorithmically Created Content will Transform Publishing.” It’s an interesting look at the way that free, public source materials can be…
continue readingFifty Shades of Greenbacks
Late this afternoon, Forbes writer Luisa Kroll estimated that Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James is on pace to secure a spot on next year’s top earning writers list. The article points out other estimates that claim James is raking in as much as $1.3 million a week. While the layperson reader sees these…
continue readingPower Chord Booksignings Scheduled
My guitar hero book, Power Chord is being published on July 31. Be sure to follow along with all the high volume fun by ‘liking’ the official Power Chord page on Facebook or checking out the book’s website. More information is being added all the time and it’s going to get hectic in the next…
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