“Marketing is a long and arduous process that I wish I would have known more about in the beginning…” opens today’s Publisher’s Weekly article about the professional benefits of joining a writers’ group.
Knopf, Scandinavians, and publishing legends
Knopf is tagging along with another Scandinavian publishing phenomenon. This interesting article in Publisher’s Weekly details how Swedish agent Niclas Salomonsson convinced executives to sign up Lars Kepler.
The Alienist finally gets its screen debut
I was surprised to learn that Caleb Carr’s novel “The Alienist” will soon be a TNT miniseries—not because it lacked fans (it reached the top 10 of The New York Times’ Bestseller list in 1994),
Ravenmasters and cults
A couple of cool book deals caught my attention this week, via Publishers Marketplace.
First up,
The New York Times goes to 11: It’s 11 new books they recommend
This week’s “11 New Books We Recommend this Week” from The New York Times includes the latest in the Jack Reacher series;
#TBT It’s Harold Robbins’ The Lonely Lady
In the spirit of #tbt is Harold Robbins’ 1976 novel, “The Lonely Lady.” I’d thought a lot of Robbins’s work was a slight step above dime-store schlock,
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists … and a whole bunch of other phonies
When you create a work of fiction, the world is whatever you want it to be. But “Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes,
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