![]() |
|||||||||
|
Book/Calendar Publisher is looking for a Administrative Assistant to Photo Director. See the next featured job.
Cambridge University Press is looking for a Chief Financial Officer. See other great jobs at our Job Board.
AuthorsGalleyCatnip: Edwidge Danticat Will Miss the Oprah Winfrey Show
Oprah Winfrey announced today that she will end her popular show in 2011, closing the televised side of the most influential book club in America. Author Edwidge Danticat told the Wall Street Journal why she will miss the club: "When she calls to tell you that your book has been selected for the book club, she sounds so excited that you feel as though she's both your ideal reader and your biggest cheerleader." To write its embargo-breaking scoop about Sarah Palin's memoir (which has reportedly sold 300,000 copies already), the AP ripped, scanned, and mined the text for juicy tidbits. Kat Meyer interviewed Angela James, the executive editor for Carina Press on Twitter for her weekly Follow Reader Twitter chat. Read the whole exchange at #followreader. Why author and literary blogger Maud Newton is writing a novel instead of a memoir. Bainbridge Indie Hosts One Couple, Two Books
Bainbridge Island's Eagle Harbor Bookstore hosted local authors Sharlene Martin and Anthony Flacco for a dual signing last Sunday afternoon to promote the book they collaborated on—Publish Your Nonfiction Book—and Flacco's The Road Out of Hell (which tells the real-life story behind events touched upon in Clint Eastwood's Changeling). The event was followed by a fundraiser for the Kitsap Regional Library Foundation, where the couple were joined by local bestselling authors Susan Wiggs, Gregg Olsen and Suzanne Selfors.
The Tour's On Hold, But the Trailers Roll OnWhen Jeff Schettler began writing a memoir about his bloodhound, and the cases they had worked on together as a K9 team, Ronin had already been diagnosed with the cancer that would end his life. Years later, there was such strong faith in the ability of Red Dog Rising to resonate with readers that plans were underway for a national book tour—a major undertaking in any event, but for a book published by a small independent press even moreso. And then Schettler himself was diagnosed with what his publicist, Julie Schoerke, described to us as "very aggressive" cancer—scuttling the entire tour except for one reading in Atlanta at the end of November, as traveling to other cities is simply incompatible with 30 hours of chemotherapy a week. In the YouTube era, however, Schettler can still talk to readers about his story, and about the Georgia K9 National Training Center, the service dog training center he's founded which will receive all the proceeds from the sales of Red Dog Rising. Vladimir Nabokov's Unfinished Novel in Playboy
If you want to read an excerpt, you won't find the book on the Oprah Winfrey Show or at the multiplex. You need to go to Playboy, the magazine that everybody reads for the literary excerpts. The magazine gave GalleyCat that image from the print magazine excerpt--showing the choice the great writer's son had between burning or publishing the unfinished book. Here's an excerpt that seems fairly safe for work: "[Nabokov] started writing it in 1975 and persisted while hospitalized the few months before his death in 1977. He relied on his signature creative approach (the note cards included here are testament to that), but the book was never finished. In this event, he asked that the draft be destroyed. That we are able to publish a portion of it today is a privilege and a relief to admirers, biographers and readers of every stripe, but that it would survive was never a certainty." NBA Nonfiction Winner T. J. Stiles on the RecessionThat's biographer T. J. Stiles talking about the recession on the floor of the glitzy National Book Awards yesterday. Stiles won the award for his biography of a wealthy man, "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt," but had some advice for surviving as a writer during these difficult economic times. In addition, we interviewed NBA Fiction Winner Colum McCann about New York City and grace. Finally, we quizzed the nominees on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight Saga and interviewed Last night Galleycat covered the 2009 National Book Awards, a combination of the Academy Awards ceremony, a fairytale ball, and a high school prom for writers. NBA Fiction Winner Colum McCann on GraceNovelist Colum McCann won the National Book Award for Fiction last night for "Let the Great World Spin." "Stories are the purest form of engagement," he explained in his acceptance speech. "We have to take this honor as a challenge." In this exclusive GalleyCat interview, McCann talks about New York City, the recession, and grace. We also got the author's take on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight Saga. Last night Galleycat covered the 2009 National Book Awards, a combination of the Academy Awards ceremony, a fairytale ball, and a high school prom for writers. Stephenie Meyer and Twilight Versus the National Book AwardsIn this special National Book Awards video feature, GalleyCat prowled the red carpet asking the nation's most critically acclaimed writers to comment on the country's most popular book series. We expected a snooty series of reactions to the upcoming adaptation to Stephenie Meyer's "New Moon" and the Twilight Saga, but we found something else altogether. Also check out our exclusive interview with NBA Fiction Winner Colum McCan and our video interview with NBA Nonfiction winner T. J. Stiles. This week the publishing world gathered for the National Book Awards, a combination of the Academy Awards ceremony, a fairytale ball, and a high school prom for writers. Don't worry about buying a tuxedo, because GalleyCat will be covering the event. Senior editor Ron Hogan will be twittering about the event and editor Jason Boog will handle the good old fashioned blogging duties. Karl Rove Memoir Coming in March 2010
Threshold editor-in-chief Mary Matalin (a conservative leader in her own right, profiled here) had this statement: "Karl has always been in a league of his own in the world of electoral politics and now he creates a unique genre for historians, policy makers, political junkies and serious readers." James Othmer's Agent Was No Clown... Yet
"I realized that if I wrote a nice little jewel of a novel that would have a small readership and was well-reviewed, I would never come close to making the money I was making, even as a copywriter. I realized it was an unrealistic goal to say I'll be a self-sustaining writer of fiction. So I kept at it, and I wrote three novels. I had several agents. One agent died, one agent quit to go to clown school." Othmer, who draws upon his personal experience to inform a meditation upon advertising in Adland, notes that he's still consulting in that field, a process he describes as being hired to "take a look at a brand, and lift the hood up and see if there was something I could bring to it." Meanwhile, we're waiting for the film adaptation of his first novel, The Futurist, to get out of pre-production, and then next June he's got a new novel, Holy Water, about "a water-filtration salesman who gets transferred to a third-world nation to open up a back office in a drought-plate nation [after] his wife has thrown him out of the house because he lied about his vasectomy." Too Big Not to Write
Over at wowOwow.com, the 32-year-old NY Times reporter spoke about his reporting adventures while writing "his new book, "Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--And Themselves." The interview features some casual bombshells like this one about the insular world of high finance: "I mean ... 30 people [are] running the world, and they are all mostly men, with very few exceptions." The interview will make almost any writer feel like a slacker... Here's an excerpt from the interview: "I had some researchers who were helping me. I used to do my writing typically from midnight to about 6:30 in the morning, like I was back in college. I used to go to the corner store near my apartment, I'd buy a two-liter bottle of diet Coke and a bag of Stacy's chips from the same guy. He'd laugh at me every time." PreviouslyCRUSH IT! by Gary Vaynerchuk -- A Review Sarah Palin Criticizes AP Memoir Leak Journalist and Author Lou Dobbs Leaving CNN Lemony Snicket Rides Again at Little, Brown John Irving Worries about Young Writers Philip Roth Cuts Lansing, Michigan John Grisham Enters Price War Debate Jon Krakauer Criticizes Gen. Stanley McChrystal AvantGuild: Memoir Isn't Just Writing About Yourself UnBeige: Extreme Makeover, Emily Dickinson's Home Edition Alice Munro Reveals Battle with Health Problems Lawyers Cancel Harry Potter Dinner Andromeda Klein, Born Under a Cryptic Sign "The Apprentice Has Become the Master": Once Her Assistant, Now Her Editor AvantGuild: The Daily Show Producer's YA Novel Author to Watch: Sarah Beth Durst - ICE Author to Watch: Barry Lyga - "Goth Girl" Author to Watch: Shani Petroff - "Bedeviled" First Glimpse of Don DeLillo's Slim New Novel AvantGuild: Lena Katz's California Trilogy Getting Past Your Issues & Finding a Book Soft Skull Press Defends Controversial Memoir Journalists Remember Ryszard Kapuscinski Gourmet EIC to Write Book about Condé Nast Experiences John McCain Ponders Sarah Palin Memoir Paul Auster and Salman Rushdie Sign Roman Polanski Release Petition Author Lawrence Weschler on the Future of Literary Journalism TMZ and Twitter Spread False Maya Angelou News 'The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind' Sarah Palin Finishes Her Memoir in Four Months Celebrating William Safire's Precision Why You Should Keep Writing Despite Rejection How Did Mackenzie Phillips Keep Her Memoir Secret? The Other D.B. Who Explains Dan Brown's Appeal Ralph Nader and His 700-Page Novel Publishing and New War Veterans Who Is Robert Bonomo And Why Is He Trying to Game Oprah? AvantGuild: Writing the Book on Work-Life Balance Author Jon Krakauer on His Long-Delayed Book It's a Red Letter Day for Laura Caldwell Laura Albert Settles Film Company's "Fraud" Suit Read Like a NY Times Columnist Ernest Hemingway's "Suicidal" U-Boat War Publisher Reacts Strongly to Author's Royalty Debate Author vs. Publisher Debate Heats Up Journalists Write North Korean Prison Story Where in the World Is Sarah Palin? Author Jenna Bush Joins Today Show "The Shock Doctrine" Adaptation Divided Joyce Carol Oates' Literary Look at Ted Kennedy Remembering Dominick Dunne on the Menu Author and Journalist Dominick Dunne Has Died Politico Writer on Ted Kennedy's Legacy Frustrated Novelist Julia Child Finally Tops Bestseller List Senator Edward M. Kennedy Has Died Mary Gaitskill's Real Life GalleyCat Beach Reading with President Barack Obama Gawker's Hunter Walker Investigates J-School How To Break into Comic Book Writing Elizabeth Gilbert Gets "Committed" TV Journalist Don Hewitt Has Died Frank Bruni's Audiobook Revelation Glenn Beck: Advertisers Flee, Audience Flocks Author and Journalist Robert Novak Has Died The Dark Side of Crossword Puzzles Historical Novel Questions "Incredibly Misogynistic Record" Literary Politicians Lead Health Care Debate New Yorker Releases Dave Eggers Excerpt Novelist Wendy Walker on Recession Lit Vanity Fair Imagines Werner Herzog's Diary Dick Cheney Memoir to Reveal "Heated Arguments" with George W. Bush Collected Works of Arlen Specter Thomas Pynchon Confirmed as Book Trailer Narrator Mystery Novelist Sandra Brown on Writing Conferences AvantGuild: Julie Powell on Avoiding the Blogging Trap Screenwriter Blake Snyder Has Died Lev Grossman: Fantasy Goes Mainstream Senate Confirms Perry Mason Fan Thomas Pynchon, Your Humble Narrator? First Glimpse of Vladimir Nabokov's Final Manuscript Booker Longlister Fights Wikipedia Critics GalleyCat's Pynchon Party Program Ashton Kutcher and David Pogue Publish Twitter Fans Nancy Drew Reader Endorsed by Senate Judiciary |
The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry
|
||||||||
|
Legal Notices, Licensing, Reprints, Permissions, Privacy Policy.
|