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Archives: November 2009

Thanksgiving Leftovers

Natural Causes And Other Stories by Gary McLouth

Meet the Dogs of Brooklyn

Washington Post Mounts Books Experiment with Amazon

Author Braves Thanksgiving Madness for Airport Book Signing

You Oughta Know How to Make Kale Salad

Search Optimization Tools for Book Publicity

David Lynch Foundation Helps Filmmaker Adapt a New Yorker Short Story

Harlequin's Lost Horizons: Self-Publishing Imprint Renamed

Michael Wolff: "Literate people should boycott books"

Jonah Goldberg's Million Dollar Book Deal

Wattpad CEO Sees India as Digital Book Frontier

Riley Park By Diane Tullson

Literary Luminaries Sign Sarah Palin Book for Charity

Recession Advice from NBA Finalists

New York Magazine's Political Fictions Contest

Mind Bending Limited Edition "Vampire Academy" Cover

Celebrity Book Toolkit

Interview: Self Publishing Your Twitter Feed

Smashwords To Supply Books to Amazon Kindle Store

The Road Trailer: Yay or Nay?

Bad Attitude Gets Blogger Blackballed from RWA

Oprah May Go, But Publishing Will Carry On

Pop-Up Book Champion Has Died

The Trump Card by Ivanka Trump

GalleyCatnip: Borders UK Struggles with Distributors

"Seg-Book-Gation" in Publishing

Thirty Cartoonists Tackle Sarah Palin's Book Tour

Self Publishing Twitter Feeds with Tweetbookz

Best Books of 2009, Airport Edition

Macmillan Audio Hires Robert Allen as Editorial Director

Do We Need Three Million Books a Year?

We'd Be Better Off If Oprah Quit Last Friday

Harlequin Dips Toe in Self-Publishing Waters (or Shoots Itself in the Foot)

How to Rule the World from Your Couch by Laura Day

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" Adaptation Breaks Box Office Records

GalleyCatnip: Edwidge Danticat Will Miss the Oprah Winfrey Show

Book Stock Watch: Barnes & Noble Sells Out Nook for Holidays

Be Not E-fraid

Regretsy Scores Latest Blog-to-Book Deal

How Swine Flu and eBooks Changed Medical Publishing

Are Writers Born or Made?

Bainbridge Indie Hosts One Couple, Two Books

The Tour's On Hold, But the Trailers Roll On

Handwritten Bible Bids Rise to Nearly $7,000

Vladimir Nabokov's Unfinished Novel in Playboy

Job Detective: Penguin Executive Assistant

Border Crossing by Jessica Lee Anderson

Twilight Tourism and Stephenie Meyer Day

The Ice Man by Philip Carlo

Walmart.com CEO Denies "Predatory" Book Pricing

All Romance eBooks Turns Three

NBA Nonfiction Winner T. J. Stiles on the Recession

NBA Fiction Winner Colum McCann on Grace

Philip Roth on Bad Sex Award Shortlist

Disney Shelves Michael Chabon's Adaptation of Jules Verne Novel

Stephenie Meyer and Twilight Versus the National Book Awards

Liveblogging the National Book Awards

GalleyCat at the National Book Awards

GalleyCatnip: Susan Orlean's Bookshelf

Last Day for Early Bird Discount on eBook Summit

Universities Boycott Amazon's Kindle DX

Karl Rove Memoir Coming in March 2010

Booking: Michael Jackson and Self-Publishing

Friedman Pops the Hood on Open Road

Writing about Infrastructure and Horror

James Othmer's Agent Was No Clown... Yet

Twilight Tattoos

NY Times Reporter Lands Seven Figure Deal for Barack Obama Book

B As in Beauty by Alberto Ferreras

GalleyCatnip: Sarah Palin Strikes Back

Too Big Not to Write

120,000 Reading Books on Android Phones

Agent Auctions Critiques of Partial Manuscripts

How Hypnosis Can Beat Writer's Block

Scenes from the eBook Summit Preview Party

Random House Reports Big Digital Book Increases

Job Detective: Palgrave Macmillan Editor

Google Books Settlement Finds Canadian Critics

Never Make The Same Mistake Twice by Nene Leakes

Scribd to Sell 14,000 Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Sarah Palin's Diary

Literary Journal Tackles Terrorist Attack

New Oxford American Dictionary Picks Word of the Year

TheNervousBreakdown.com

Booked: Digital Book Party Tonight

Precious Adaptation Extends Impressive Box Office Record

Shortcovers Signs Global Distribution Deal with Smashwords

Google Books Settlement Revised

Thug Lovin' by Wahida Clark

CRUSH IT! by Gary Vaynerchuk -- A Review

GalleyCatnip: Stephenie Meyer's Epiphany

Book Stock Watch: Price Wars and Borders

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

Publishing Twitter Lists, Part Two

Clash of the Titans Trailer, the Verdict

What's Next for Business Reporting Books?

Sarah Palin Criticizes AP Memoir Leak

Website Launches "She Writes Day of Action"

Amazon.com to Publish Three More BookSurge Titles

Job Detective: Scholastic Seeks

Washington Post Book World Podcast Needs Subscribers

eBook Summit Preview Party

GalleyCatnip: Sarah Palin vs. Levi Johnston

Clash of the Titans Trailer: Book It or Blow It?

Handwritten Bible Auctioned on eBay

24 Agents Looking for New Writers

Hyperlocal Storytelling

The Socially Networked Literary Journal

Journalist and Author Lou Dobbs Leaving CNN

The Trouble with HR by Johnny C. Taylor and Gary M. Stern

Lemony Snicket Rides Again at Little, Brown

Publishing Twitter Lists, Part One

Curse of the Orphaned Book

Linden MacIntyre Beats Odds to Win Giller Prize

Literary Agents React!

Sharing Books with Soldiers on Veterans Day

The Bible on Your Xbox

Good News about the Future of Reading in NYC

Job Detective: W. W. Norton Hires

America Libre by Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

Changes Afoot at GalleyCat

Andrew Sullivan Experiments with POD Book at Atlantic

David Fincher to Adapt Spooky 1970s Novel

Reading with Tofu

Literary Agents, bah! Who needs them?

Building the Best Twitter Lists

Amazon.com Sponsors Literary Anthology

Video Games, Comic Books, and the Future of Publishing

Free Kindle Application for the PC

Greenleaf Book Group Hires David Leach

Lost Symbol Out, Gathering Storm In

Pipkin's Woodsburner Takes First Novel Prize

676,900,000 Words in 9 Days

Barnes & Noble Nook Pre-Orders Exceed Expectations

Paris Review Forms Search Committee to Replace Philip Gourevitch

Fake AP Stylebook Twitter Feed Makes Headlines

How Well Do You Know Your Celebrity Poets?

Angela James to Helm Digital Press at Harlequin

Sonny Mehta to Receive AAWW Lifetime Achievement Award

Everybody Loves Raymond Carver

Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson by Ian Halperin

"Precious" Adaptation Scores Box Office Record

Writing In Between Alaska and NYC

Wal-Mart Pricing Not Predatory?

Triumph Rushes 63,000 Copies of Yankee Book

The $100,000 Comic Book

Novelist Jackson Taylor on PEN's Prison Writing Program

Job Detective: Scholastic Seeks

Publishers Weekly Top Ten Debate Continues

Journalists Turn to Scribd in Fort Hood Shooting

The Vixen Manual by Karrine Steffans

John Irving Worries about Young Writers

Rainbow House by Janet Diaz-Bonilla

Newspaper to Blog Exodus

GalleyCatnip: Bruce Springsteen's $10 Million Advance?

Glenn Beck Thrills Publishers

Sheila McClear's Memoir (It's Not About Gawker)

Philip Roth Cuts Lansing, Michigan

Simon & Schuster Offers Digital Galleys

Fake AP Stylebook Twitter Feed Lands an Agent

eBook Publisher is 'Ravenous' for Your NaNoWriMo Output

How to Plan Your First Book

WILLA Objects to Literary List

How to Start a Career in Publishing

Amazon.com's Twitter Program Generates Controversy

Job Detective: Random House Hires

21st Century Bedtime Stories

John Grisham Enters Price War Debate

Let's Talk eBook Royalties: First, What Should They Be?

I See Your Dream Job by Sue Frederick

To Build a Paywall or Not to Build a Paywall

America's Top Cellphone Novelist

GalleyCat Mingles with Library Lions

A NaNoWriMo Home Base for New Yorkers

Simon & Schuster Sells eBook Chapters

Publishers Should Be Asking "What's the Subtext?"

Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook Design

Jane Friedman and Jeffrey Sharp to Keynote eBook Summit

Lisa Gallagher Hired as Agent at Sanford. J. Greenburger Associates

Hungry by Crystal Renn

Jonathan Safran Foer on Eating Animal Products

Toolkit for NaNoWriMo Writers

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francis

"Wizard of Oz" Wins Book of the Year Award

Job Detective: Scholastic Spots

Hyperion Names New Editor-in-Chief

Behind the Scenes at Operation Warrior Library

Jon Krakauer Criticizes Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Gary Vaynerchuk's Airport Bookstore Tour

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