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Archives: August 2006

Scene @ Subway Chronicles Party

FSG Enters Book Trailer Arena W/Flourish

Let's Not Forget the Hugo Winners

The lure of the series character

Petty Larcenist Jeopardizes Literary Vanguard

All China all the time

It's a Known World After All

Michael Tolkin is no Player Hater

IPPY Nomination Season Kicks Off

B&N Stock Dips As Feds Announce Probe

Naghib Mahfouz, 1911-2006

Sci-Fi Awards Show Marred By Boorish Groping

Brad Meltzer's Humble Beginnings as "Guinea Pig"

But when will the biographer see the money?

Chick Lit Writers Embrace Their "Literary" Peers

Finalists Announced for Marshall Prize

John Mark Karr Walks (Sorta);
Morrow's Mystery Book Back Up for Grabs?

Jonathan Franzen's photo fountain of youth

More on Hyperion's new Women's Fiction imprint

Being nice is the new black

Pluto demotion potential boon for textbook publishers?

Lionel Shriver, Back in Action

Former Prez Turns Up at Barnes & Noble

Maybe it would have been better to kill the opening paragraph

Chick Lit: Written by Party-Girls, not MFAs

The impending arrival of Peter Pan, the sequel

Yes kids, it's another literary hoax!

We've Made It into the New York Times!

How many times can this dead horse be beaten?

Dog Show: Everyone's a Critic

More Stories You Read First on GalleyCat

Dog Show: Emily, Tippy and Boswell

People Get Goofy Thinking About Bestsellers

Dog Show: Seamus

Dog Show: Winka, Sam and Chief

Dog Show: Hakuna, Zoe & Maggie

Dog Show: Olive, Rosa, Ginny & Gobo

Norman Mailer still obsessed with WWII

Travel guide publishers pissed about new airport guidelines

Kelly Link gets the full Harcourt press

R&J Summer Promotion: best one ever

Don't Send a Goy to Do a Mensch Job

The Return of the Renaissance Batman

Well of course they want their book deal ASAP

Cyberpunk's B Squad Fronts Sci-Fi E-zine

Books that are fun to read but get left behind

Gary Fisketjon wins Maxwell Perkins award

Borders suffers the brunt of it

Talk About Your Market-Driven Products

Watch Out, Poets & Writers!

Nora Roberts Enjoys the Simple Life

The Thrill of the Quills

Ambitious Author Shunned by Canadian Literati?

Gossip Girls on TV? A perfectly trashy combination

LibreDigital vs. Google Book Search

Harlequin expands digital-based output

Bertelsmann won't dump German book clubs

The Quills, redux

GalleyCat Goes to the Dogs

The MultiCulti World of Schoolbooks

Yesterday, Publishing Hotties.
Today, Nude Authors!

On the Proper Disposal of Galleys

How to blow your deadline, one joystick at a time

Harry Crews, Literary Wild Thing

Boston University jumps on book publishing bandwagon

Meet Your GalleyCat Hotties of Publishing!

Today's theme of author hotness continues

"Bloggers Hate Pessl" Meme
Spreads to NYT Arts Section

Is there some vendetta we're supposed to know about?

Heather Mills and the inevitable book deal

Setting words to music in a totally different way

The Man Booker Flame Wars Have Begun!

One Story Launches Blog

Making the case for romance

Pick a Hottie Before You Leave the Office!

NYTBR Shows Ron Hogan What For

Today in Wottakar's: restructuring, returns and rejuvenation

New York Times gets a literary agent of its own

JLA #1: Late, But Worth the Wait

Susanna Clarke cancels book tour

Asda to publishers: don't raise the prices!

Hotties of Publishing: Voting Enters Day Two!

Seigel Shakes Off Those Sophomore Blues

Another day, another debate about the publishing climate

Let's Speculate Wildly About That Mystery Book!

Godin Still Appreciates Books' Awesome Functionality

Marvel Editor on Civil War Mid-Season Hiatus:
"It's Just a Hard Book to Do"

What Karin Slaughter's doing for her summer vacation

GrassGate: defense from John Irving, he keeps the Nobel

Random House and Focus Features' partnership results in something concrete

Vote on the Hottie of Publishing, Women's Division

Vote on the Hottie of Publishing, Men's Division

Is WSJ Creeping Up on NYTBR?

Temporary Cease-Fire in Marvel's Civil War

Fiction Still in Death Throes, Thanks for Asking

Fooling the computer, one name at a time

The dreaded sophomore slump

Product placement now in textbooks, too

Grass's SS past gets harsh criticism

Mark Helprin Isn't Reading Your Book

Starbucks Wanted Mitch Albom So Bad

A Book for Every Child

Branding for Dummies

John Warner Totally Games Amazon, Scores

Publishing Insider Opens Up

Longlisting the Man Booker

Blurb.com gets more investors to the tune of $12M

Letters, We Get Letters...

Will There Really Be an Aquaman Movie?

A Taylor-Made Weight Loss Program

Don't Let Bugs Meany Keep This Book Down!

The Fall Blockbuster Horserace

The fights continue: Freudenberger v. Sittenfeld

The fights continue, part II: Amanda Ross v. Monica Ali

A Brief Moment of Clarification

Houellebecq throws a temper tantrum against his publisher

Gunter Grass opens up about his past

One More Fight: Chicks vs. Not Chicks

Bloggers, Literati in Increasingly Famous Spats

NYTBR Flunks Journalism 101?

England Loves Its Sex Bloggers

The name is Bateman. Just Bateman.

Mary Higgins Clark writes for kids

So how did the foiled terrorist plot affect airport booksellers?

Repeat after me: is that trade show really necessary?

Couldn't You Have Used Our Names, Liesl?

Fake Writer @ Wired News Has a Book, Too

Holtzbrinck To Deploy Authors on Blogging Mission?

CopyKaavya Exploited for Self-Pubbed Biz Book

Scott Pack gives his reasons

The Da Vinci Code UK lawsuit takes another turn

Can this carry over to the US, please please please?

Private Equity firms to poach publishers?

Wright: Admit It, 9/11 Is Our Fault, Too

It's Like Good Will Hunting, Only Literary!

University of California joins Google Book Project

Holy Seduction of the Innocent!

Interested in Self-Publishing?
Pay iUniverse to Learn More!

Quantifying the Oprah Effect

Scene @ This Is Not Chick Lit Night

Today in Lawsuits: one initiated, one resolved

Nobody fights like poets do

Don't Worry: Your Nominations Are Safe!

On the Street Lit Front

The Unsinkable Dan Brown Back on Big Screen

A match made in corporate "Heaven"

All Scott Pack, all the time

Create your very own #1 Bestseller

Today in Wottakar's: pulping 30% of Ottakar's stock

Who Are the Hotties of Publishing?

Buy These Stories or We'll Repossess This Car

Finding Our Way Through Translation

Philip K. Dick Is In Development, Alas

Lyons Press Goes to the Dogs

Mr. Toast Popping Up All Over

Otto Penzler Hates Comic Books, Too

Rushdie Reveals Himself as Potter Fanboy

Mining the obsession with the weirdest possible health topics

Today in Wottakar's: Christmas options and objections to Thursday launches

I love Paris in the book world

Why don't political books sell in the UK?

Scene at the Noli Me Tangere Reading

Awards: the new co-op?

Rejected Novel Gets Second Chance in Magazine

HarperCollins continues plans for world domination, one internet initiative at a time

Graham Goes for the Thrills

More on the bandwagon of book trailers

S&S Up; Harlequin Down

Tapping into the Vast Market of Suckers

Blurbs Out, Bloggers In

What's a Romantic Suspense Writin' Gal to Do?

Bill Clegg returns to agenting with a poaching vengeance

Slow news day item #1: J.K. Rowling at Radio City

Slow news day item #2: India's unlikely literary star

Meanwhile, At Stately Wayne Manor...

Amazon hooks onto the library market

Indigo doesn't lose as much money as it did last quarter

I Wanna Know About the Mystery Dance!

Judging Chick-Lit By Its Covers (again)

13 Weeks into 52

Brick Lane Book Burning Fails to Spark

The little paperback that could

Perseus acquires Consortium

This man has the top-selling book in France. Why?

Pearson does better than expected

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