Category: publishing

“A look at how writers channeled pure evil into its cutest and its creepiest forms” – from Mephistopheles to Screwtape (C.S. Lewis) to Woland (Bulgakov) to that wicked spirit that made poor little Regan hurl green vomit at the priesty. (Though they forgot Bob from Twin Peaks.)

When the judge told a lawyer he only had five pages for an amicus brief, he called on a graphic novelist for help. (Want to read the comic? Click here/)

The race for the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize will feature books by previous nominee Annabel Lyon and three-time Leacock Medal winner Will Ferguson. A jury has selected 13 titles to vie for the prestigious literary award for the best Canadian work of fiction in English (or translated into English) published in the last year.”

“Driving sales is a literate population that emphasizes education and self-improvement. Censorship has become less draconian since Mao’s time and publishing has become more commercial. As a result, readers of Chinese books today have more choice of genre, voice and subject matter than they have had at any time in the last 60 years.”

“Ellory, who won the Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year prize in 2010 for his novel A Simple Act of Violence, was exposed by the crime writer Jeremy Duns on Twitter for posting reviews on Amazon under various identities … criticising his rivals and praising his own work.”

At Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s house: “The tree house complex for children Kenzie and David will boast cedar-shingle roofs, a secret tunnel, rope bridge, fireman’s pole, basket and pulley, spiral staircase, trap door and rope ladder, double swing set and trampoline deck.”

When’s the last time you heard this? “The book boom helped Bertelsmann paper over weaknesses in RTL Group, its core television and radio broadcasting business.”

The company that owns the brand “doesn’t want to be recognized merely as a notebook company. Their vast catalog now includes hundreds of niche products like beer journals, pencil sets, reading lights, and postal notebooks that turn into ready-to-mail letters.” Not to mention Moleskine iPad and Kindle covers (and the app, of course).

No. Well, sort of. Maybe. And authors are lawyering up.

“‘If you want a concept book in black and white, go get it, and it will be incredibly cheap,’ says Bruce Hildebrand, executive director of higher education at the Association of American Publishers. ‘What faculty are looking for are calculus books that have interactive components and have applications’.”