Category: publishing

Laura Miller: “To begin your novel with a feint – a novel-within-the-novel that only announces itself as such after the fact – is a legitimate way to do this, but for [many] readers … it can register as a violation.”

“Cutting apart printed Bibles with painstaking care, the Ferrar family and their co-religionists selected parts of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, each of which talk about Christ’s life from different perspectives. Pasted together in chronological order, the bits made a ‘Harmony’ – a complete story, split into 150 chapters.”

Seanan McGuire, Hugo nominee: “So here are my firsts for this year: First woman to appear on the ballot four times in fiction categories alone. First person to appear on the ballot five times in a single year. First person to appear on the ballot with a purely self-published work.”

“Even Washingtonians familiar with the Library of Congress will be awed by what St. Louis has accomplished with this renovation that reclaims the architectural glories of the past while offering all the technological conveniences of the present.”

“Whereas everywhere I used to go in the course of what is laughingly called my work I met people who were toting Moleskine notebooks, now most of them have iPads. And – shock, horror! – they appear to be using them as notebooks.”

“‘We’re kind of Bibles, cookbooks and kids’ books,’ Ms. McKay said from behind her store’s counter. ‘Those are the things people want to save or pass on.'”

“The alternative weekly of yesterday is toast. Or, at least it should be if the alt-weekly business is going to survive. As print media collectively emerges from an existential crisis that has forever altered the business model, alt-weeklies are coming out on the other side as more than just newspapers.” And which ones are doing it best? Not the big ones.

An early, unpublished story, “along with a stack of hand-corrected manuscripts, letters, a hand-bound poetry book and Faulkner’s Nobel medal, are headed to Sotheby’s for auction in June.”

‘The intention is service, to help the teachers and librarians who are looking for resources,” one marketer said. “At the same time it is definitely an opportunity for us to gather sales because it is such a hot topic.”

“I’ve never even won a raffle. I don’t go in for competitions – the only other time I did was decades back, when I got runner-up,” she said. “But I’m really down on my finances – I edit Agenda, and was really struggling, and thought this was probably better than a gamble on the horses.”