Category: News

Super Books

So, with the New York Giants’s Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots, how long before the football books start trickling out? Eli Manning is probably a shoe-in for an “as told to” book. Winning coach Tom Coughlin who was almost fired last season will probably get one of those coach-as-business-mentor books. And I’m…

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Big League Advances

Bookninja points to an article about Canadian author winning the literary lottery. Perhaps more interesting than this tale of a first-time novelist getting a $1.25 million advance is the rundown of bigtime advanaces at the end of the article.

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Nice Article, Wrong Crucial Fact

Here’s an interesting article on self-publishingby the San Jose Mercury News. Unfortunately, they got the fact about John Grisham and A Time to Kill wrong. As Grisham explained to me in 2006, A Time to Kill was published by Wynwood Press. The company went out of business and he purchased the remaining copies. He then sold…

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Write to Done Blog Launched

Galleycat pointed out that Leo Babauta recently launched a new blog about writing called Write to Done. It’s a neat site with good advice in the few entries already posted. Leo plans to update the site with new articles twice weekly so the helpful writing hints will surely keep coming. Check it out often.

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Harry Hits New York

  One of the most anticipated fiction debuts of the year hits New York City tonight as Mark Sarvas reads from his forthcoming novel, Harry, Revised as part of the Boxcar Class of 2008 reading series at 8pm. The event is at the Boxcar Lounge, 168 Avenue B in New York. You probably already know…

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