John Grisham

John Grisham & His $6 Million Mistake - Posted April 3, 2012
Did you know that legal thriller writer John Grisham lost millions of dollars when he first became a published author? Even though ... [semanticweb.com]

Tweeting LA Juror Provides Spark for Social Media App - Posted October 25, 2011
The following nugget from Thomson Reuters columnist Alison Frankel is worthy ... [FishbowlLA]

Forbes Unveils Highest Paid Authors List - Posted August 17, 2011
This week Forbes published their annual list of the highest paid writers. Novelist James Patterson leads the pack with $84 million--a $14 million increase from ... [GalleyCat]

HarperCollins Titles Absent From OverDrive's Top Adult Fiction Downloads - Posted March 4, 2011
Despite all of the controversy surrounding HarperCollins and eBooks at libraries, the publisher failed to make OverDrive's ten most downloaded books from the library l... [AppNewser]

Tick Tock Tops NY Times eBook Best Sellers List - Posted February 3, 2011
The New York Times Best Sellers lists for eBooks will launch online on February 11th and will be followed with a print publication in the Sunday Febru... [AppNewser]

New York Leads Google eBookstore Adoption - Posted January 25, 2011
New York, Seattle, Chicago, LA and DC have been the top cities to embrace Google's eBookstore. According to Abe Murray, product manager at Google Books, who shared s... [AppNewser]

John Grisham eBook Hits Top Three For Library Downloads - Posted December 1, 2010
While Stieg Larsson's eBooks continue to be the most popular adult fiction downloaded from libraries, John Grisham's The Confession climbed to No. 3 last month in ... [AppNewser]

James Patterson Responds to Critics - Posted November 24, 2010
No other author has had as many New York Times bestsellers at one time as James Patterson. People magazine called him the "king of the bestsellers list." He has outsold writers like ... [GalleyCat]

Lee Child, Stieg Larsson And James Patterson Top BooksOnBoard eBook Sales Last Week - Posted November 22, 2010
Authors Lee Child, Stieg Larsson, ... [AppNewser]

John Grisham's Sells 70,000 eBooks In First Week Of Release - Posted November 10, 2010
Sales for John Grisham's new book The Confession are skyrocketing, thanks to the simultaneous release of the eBook version. ... [AppNewser]

Writing: Tougher Than Installing Fences, Plumbing, And Building Roads - Posted September 7, 2010
John Grisham wrote an op-ed in Sunday's New York Times about the jobs he had before he was a writer. The author of "A Time To Kill" got his first... [MediaJobsDaily]

Philip Roth and John Grisham Interviews Fabricated by Italian Journalist - Posted March 29, 2010
An Italian journalist appears to have fabricated an interview with famed novelist Philip Roth, creating imaginary quotes bashing President Barack Obama's presidential performance. This week's ... [GalleyCat]

John Grisham Backlist Now Available in eBook Format - Posted March 16, 2010
Today Random House announced that the complete John Grisham backlist--23 titles in all--will now be available in digital form. The books are available now, and the author has a new novel scheduled for October. Last November, Grisham ... [GalleyCat]

Jon Stewart to Introduce Condoleezza Rice at BookExpo America - Posted March 4, 2010
BookExpo America (BEA) has today announced that Jon Stewart will make an encore BookExpo America performance--serving as master of ceremonies at the Author Breakfast on Thursday, May 27. In a crazy political pairing, the host of The Daily Show will introduce memoir... [GalleyCat]

Literary Publicity Firm Precedent Media Unlimited to Close - Posted January 26, 2010
Online literary publicist Jason Gordon has decided to close the publicity firm he founded, Precedent Media Unlimited. "For over three years, I have worked hard to make sure that Precedent Media delivered the most thorough and progressive online campaigns. It has been an honor to work with so many... [GalleyCat]

John Grisham Enters Price War Debate - Posted November 4, 2009
Author John Grisham bashed Amazon and Walmart in a Today Show appearance, criticizing how the companies have marked down books and made the market more difficult for "aspiring writers." As we reported, Walmart ... [GalleyCat]

Nora Roberts by the Numbers - Posted June 22, 2009
In a recent profile of romance writing superstar Nora Roberts, the New Yorker painted the publishing industry in some broad stroke statistics. The long essay casually drops the fact that Roberts sells 27 books eve... [GalleyCat]

Stephenie Meyer Sold 16 Percent of all Books Last Quarter - Posted April 9, 2009
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series ruled the top four bestselling books for the first quarter of 2009. According to <img alt="twilight.jpg" src="/galleycat/files/original/twilight.jpg" width="120" height="200" class="alignright"/USA Today, one in every seven books sold last qua... [GalleyCat]

Tina Brown Discusses The Book Beast: 'It's Really Important to Support Books' - Posted February 6, 2009
Anyone with even a passing interest in books is by now painfully aware of the struggles the publishing industry is currently undergoing. Troubles came to a head last December when widespread layoffs were announced at both Random House an... [FishbowlNY]

Shep Gets Hall of Fame Nod - Posted October 2, 2008
FNC anchor Shepard Smith is anchoring live in St. Louis at the site of the VP debate today, but tomorrow he'll be somewhere totally different. Smith will be inducted into the University of Mississip... [TVNewser]

Squeeze a Free Subscription out of Lemon - Posted July 31, 2008
When the world gives you Lemon, the colorful pop annual, forget making lemonade and focus on snagging a free subscription. Founded by the citrusy, palette-cleansing duo of Kevin Grady and Colin Metcalf, Lemon specializes in "pop culture with a twist" and... [UnBeige]

Tim Rutten On John Grisham, John Edwards, and Post-Literate Fiction - Posted January 29, 2008
When the LA Times moved Tim Rutten away from the Calendar section, he got visiting privileges. He's reviewing the latest John Grisham novel, The Appeal, and notes: ... [FishbowlLA]

Grisham's Latest Bestseller Slated for September - Posted June 1, 2007
The AP reported yesterday that John Grisham's next novel is slated for a September publication from Doubleday - and is a departure from his usual courtroom setting. PLAYING FOR PIZZA is the story of an American quarterback trying his luck in Italy. "I was pleasantly surprised to f... [GalleyCat]

S&S Launches Video Channel - Posted May 8, 2007
Simon & Schuster announced this morning that they have reached an agreement with video company TurnHere to launch a book-centric internet video channel to promote S&S authors and their new releases. The companies will produce videos with in-depth information on featured books and authors as well as sneak previews of upcoming... [GalleyCat]