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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