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Archives: February 2008

John Scalzi Wants Your Big Ideas

VIDEO: Short Fiction Keeps Getting Better and Better

LA Times Announces 2007 Book Prize Finalists

Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Commie Girls and Olsen Twins

Should PW Tighten Up Its Subscriber List?

VIDEO: Fame Hasn't Changed Jim Shepard

Scene @ Tom Dolby's Sixth Form Party

Party Hopping: Champagne, Cake, & Fancy Dresses

Jim Shepard Wins 4th Story Prize

Celebrating the Legacy of Things Fall Apart

VIDEO: Parag Khanna's Second World Launch Party

More Reactions to Reed Biz Info Sales Plans

Beautiful Children Joins the Free Book Movement

No, It Doesn't Have Dinosaurs; That's Land of the Lost

May I Introduce to You The One and Only Owen Sheers

Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Suburban Cops Go Commando for Rushdie Lecture

Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: Ordinary Spy Goes Hollywood

Digital Media Freedom, Shine on Me

Scene @ Books for a Better Life Awards

No Future for Print? So Says GalleyCat Reader

The Most Award-Nominated Story You've Never Heard Of

Dutton's, LA Literary Fixture, to Close in April

Another Fantasy-Mystery Double Literary Threat

PW, Other RBI Mags on Market: Your Thoughts?

Michael Chabon Wows Peers Across Two Genres

Elsewhere on mediabistro.com: JT Leroy, Bugs, Kristin Harmel

DC Unveils Sandman Anniversary Bookends (& Lots of Action Figures) @ Toy Fair

Beth Lisick Puts Her Life In the Hands of 10 Strangers

Scene @ Jacob Weisberg's Book Party in LA

The Mediabistro Circus Is Coming to Town

Chip Kidd, Publishing's Own Rich Little: And More Book Trailers!

AvantGuild: Will Leitch Has No Time for Writer's Block

What's In Your Ultimate Blogroll?

Boxer Knocked Out By Bloggers' "Virtual Charisma"

Catching Up With GalleyCat Memories

Five University Presses, One New Literary Studies Line

Oprah's Clutter Man: "It's Never About the Stuff"

The Latest Batch of Free Reads Online

The Three Authors Who Made an Novelist of Manil Suri

O'Reilly: It Ain't Easy Being Free, But It Can Work

Ben Greenman's Britney "Musical" Now on YouTube

Biopic of Mad Publisher in the Works

It Takes More Than Blogging to Blog Right

Edgars vs Nibbies: The Ugliest Award in Literature?

The All-New Adventures of Breakup Girl

Fall Out Boy Extend Brand Into Comic Books

Be Lucky in Love (Book of Love!)

Weird Tales and Old Class Photos: More Online Contests

Let's Parse Those Book Sales Numbers Again

Driver in Halberstam's Vehicular Manslaughter Sentenced

"$500 Million Company" Wants Cut of Pete Dexter's Book

Gather.com Enters Self-Publishing Arena with AuthorHouse

Another Valentine's Day Freebie

Watchmen, Lord of the Rings Hit by Lawsuits

Bookstore Revenues Show Stability, Modest Growth for '07

Zombies and Evil Twins: An Online Marketing Roundup

2008 Commonwealth Writers Regional Shortlists Unfurled

Book Sales: There's Numbers, And There's Numbers

With Love, From Publishing To You

Open Source Blogging, Meet Content Marketing

When You Get to the End of This Headline, Remember to Breathe

Amazon Was Audible's Lucky Thirteenth Approachee

Cheetah Girls Never Prosper: A Cautionary Showbiz Tale

Book Sales Dip in December, But Up Over 2007

LA Website Rushes Writing Contest Into Production

Lindsay, Diggs Jump Fence And Start Agenting

Harvard Faculty Adopts Free Content Model

Ditch Your Office, Email Work in From Starbucks

Normal GalleyCat Service Will Resume Shortly

Coens Take on Chabon, Alex Cox Turns to Comics

Tools of Change: Anticipating Day Two

Tools of Change: Stephen Abram

Tools of Change: Bill Burger

Tools of Change: Seth Godin

Tools of Change: Quick Takes

This Book Trailer's Going Faster Miles An Hour

Skinny Bitch A Bait-and-Switch?

Because We Really Need Another OJ Book

More Six-Word Party Action, Now In Video!

Random House Chunks Biz Hit, Sells Pieces Online

Hadley Freeman's Strong Fashion Sense

Scene @ Six-Word Memoir Launch Party

NYTBR's Political Spin Surprises Its Biggest Critic

Harlequin Wants Your Sexy Horror Novellas

TOW Books Trio Ready to Change Your Miserable Lives

Bush Freezes Funding for School Libraries

Frank Wilson Leaves Inquirer Book Desk

What If... "Occasional Superheroine" Had Gone Bookish?

We May Not Be Saying "Not Since Carrie" Much Longer

Peering Under Rodale's Hood

Sci-Fi Spy Epic as Lens on Writer's Life

Free Ebooks from Gaiman (Sorta) and Scalzi (Really!)

Daryn Kagan Migrates from TV to Web to Print

Essence Presents 1st Annual Literary Awards

Boteach vs Hitchens: The Entire Debate on YouTube

Logrolling Among Murdoch's Minions

WNYC's Lopate to Speak at UJA-Fed Event

Blogger Rally Turns Debut into #1 Suspense Novel

Harlequin Gets Romance Fans Reading for Charity

Bush, Ex-Librarian's Husband, Aims to Slash Literacy Funding

Making the Funny with Brooklyn Independents

"I Would Normally Use Bad Words Here"

The Scarecrow in the Desert Effect

Another Toronto SF Writer Gets a Book Line

It's Like Scrabble, Only With Cheesecake

"Do I Believe in Ebooks?"

What Should Our Next President Read?

Janet Maslin Must've Missed the Memo

Twelve Hopes to Ride New Wave of McCain Enthusiasm

Scene @ David Levien's Launch Party

Publishers, Other Media Rally Around Plame

Spirited Woman Circle Announces 2008 Lineup

Wonderful Radio, Marvelous Radio

Good News for Would-Be Theodora Keogh Fans

Everybody Falls for Modern Love

"We Need Software Updates Here at Knopf"

You Try Impressing Zadie Smith With Your Short Story

L Magazine Might Like Your Fiction, Even If Zadie Smith Doesn't

Mystery And Western Couple Struck by Tragedy

What's Actually Worth Paying For Anymore?

Literary Fiction Is For People Who Can't Handle Sci-Fi

What Was Theodora Keogh's Best Novel?

Stomping That Dead Horse, Just to Make Sure

Having Rupert Murdoch In Your Corner Can't Hurt

Score One For Rabbi Boteach

Theodora Keogh Lingers in the Spotlight

Coming to Terms with Family History

The Ol' Genre vs. Literatute Debate, Again

"Girl Wonder" Finally Honored, To What End?

Canada's Book Biz Flatlining?

Who Sells More Books, Sam Tanenhaus or Terry Gross?

Goodreads vs. Good Reads

Black History Month: To Read or Not to Read?

Two Stories You Really Ought to Read

Will Obama Be Our First Hawaiian President?

"Don't Make S--t Up": Truth and Memoir @ the AWP

Dispatches from the Winter Institute

"I Believe That Our Culture Is Turning to Steam"

Inger Wolfe Has Met "Her" Match

Why Can't We Be Friends?

Australian Has Another Go At Beah's Story

Celebrating the Short Story at the AWP

Kindle "Outpacing Our Expectations," Says Amazon's Bezos

AvantGuild: 30,000 RSS Subscribers Can't Be Wrong

VIDEO: Ken Foster & Other Dogs' Best Friends

Monday Morning Trailers: We Disappear, L.A. Outlaws

Wanted: Savvy Sci-Fi Critic for NYTBR, Pt. 2

Dear God: Further Reflections on Hitchens v. Boteach

AWP Book Fair Open to Public Saturday

VIDEO: Christa Faust Talks Money Shot

Selling the Literary Hardboiled Mystique on Video

When The Book Tour Continues, Without the Author

VIDEO: Daniel Menaker Explains Titlepage.tv

A Rabbi and an Atheist Walk Into the 92 St. Y...

That's One Productive Writing Group

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