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…
I’m always intrigued by the people who endeavor to auction on eBay the rights to publish their manuscript. Or, sometimes, you’ll see someone seeking to sell the film rights. Often, they’re folks, like this industrious author, that may have self-published other books. The eBay entry mentions a couple of previous books printed through AuthorHouse and now…
Cheap, hastily produced, awfully written self-help books are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. Doesn’t matter if it’s about handling menopause, how to get Tabby the cat to lose weight, or liberating an inner child, I”ll read it. They make me grin, they make me thankful for my life, and yeah, I suppose I…
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…