Lev Grossman
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The Magicians Pilot Was Not Greenlit - Posted 2 days, 9 hours ago
Yesterday author and book critic Lev Grossman revealed that Fox decided to pass on the television pilot script based on his novel, The Magicians.
The pilot script was written by As... [GalleyCat]
Figment Launches Email Writing Prompts - Posted January 6, 2012
Figment, the writing community for young adult readers, has launched a digital muse called "Figment Daily Themes." This free email service provides "carefully crafted writing prompts" five times a week to encourage users to write everyday.
Here's more from the announcem... [GalleyCat]
Lev Grossman Reveals Reading List for Third Magicians Book - Posted December 23, 2011
Novelist and critic Lev Grossman has unveiled the working title for his third book in his popular Magicians series: "The Magician's Land." Below, we've linked to all the books on Grossman's reading list while he works on the new book.
Tor.com ... [GalleyCat]
Time Rushes Commemorative Issue to Newsstands as Tribute to Steve Jobs - Posted October 6, 2011
Less than 48 hours after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died, Time magazine is rushing to the presses with a special commemorative issue paying tribute to the visionary.
The special issue, hitting newsstands and tablets tomorrow, feature... [FishbowlNY]
Lev Grossman Shares Writing Music on Spotify - Posted August 19, 2011
Over at Largehearted Boy, novelist Lev Grossman revealed the music he listened to while writing his new novel, The Magician King. Listen to some of the songs at ... [GalleyCat]
Amazon Books Editors Pick Top 10 Fall Releases - Posted August 8, 2011
The Amazon books editors unveiled their top ten picks of the biggest releases coming out this fall.
Senior editor Chris Schluep had this statement: "This is one of the best seasons for liter... [GalleyCat]
Gregory Hill & Jill Baguchinsky Win the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award - Posted June 14, 2011
Amazon and Penguin have announced the two winners of the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Gregory Hill won the general fiction award for his title East of Denver. Jill Baguchinsky won the... [GalleyCat]
Amazon And Penguin Launch Writing Contest - Posted December 1, 2010
Amazon has teamed up with Penguin Group for the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition, an international writing competition. The competition calls both fiction and young adult write... [eBookNewser]
Molly Stern Named Publisher Crown Publishers & Broadway Books - Posted August 17, 2010
Former Viking Books editorial director Molly Stern has been named senior vice president & publisher at Crown Publishers and Broadway Books.
Stern joined Viking in 1995, and most recently served as both editorial director of fiction and executive editor at the Penguin Group imprint. She acquired many t... [GalleyCat]
Best Books of 2009, Airport Edition - Posted November 23, 2009
A few writers received an unexpected bookstore boost today as they nabbed spots on Hudson Booksellers' Best Books of the Year list. The list will earn these writers some coveted placement in the company's bookstores, reaching the most captive readership in the whole ... [GalleyCat]
A Pox on Commenters and the Apocalyptic Horse They Rode in On! - Posted July 22, 2008
The recent chatter about online commenters is refusing to die down (apologies for the bad pun). You may recall how a few weeks ago Time's Lev Grossman was wonde... [FishbowlNY]
Commenters: Barnacles on the Web 2.0 Whale? - Posted July 11, 2008
Most people who write online for a living (or even just regularly for their own pleasure) will have their own story to tell regarding commenters, and usually it's bad (though we here at FishbowlNY have no complaints! Mostly because our readers choose to forego the complicated(?) commenting system and write... [FishbowlNY]
The Perils of the Misblurb - Posted April 30, 2007
Though we at GalleyCat have taken issue from time to time - okay, often - with Henry Alford's contributions at the New York Times Book Review, I must say up front that I quite enjoyed his recent piece on how publishers take a perfectly neutral or negative review and mine it... [GalleyCat]
Morning Reading List, 03.26.07 - Posted March 26, 2007
Good morning Washington.
Two-thirds of you think the Politico/Edwards gaffe got the appropriate levels of attention.
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