‘Industry News’ Archives
Industry News: 4/4/10
This week I'm linking to another J.A. Konrath post. His account of what he's done to start and then revitalize his career as a great lesson for any writer. Medallion Press is changing to an e-publisher. You can read more about it in their April 1st Newsletter. Nathan Bransford talks about co-ops, and includes links to other blogs on the [...]
Industry News: 3/28/10
The big industry news this week was the RITA/GH announcements. RWA-WF members who made the finals are Therese Walsh, double finalist Susan Wiggs, Pamela Morsi, Barbara O'Neal (Barbara Samuel), Jane Porter, Jeane Westin, Gabrielle Luthy, Chris Keniston, and Patricia O’Dea Rosen. Congratulations to all of you! Interested in building a bigger [...]
Industry News: 3/21/10
Interested in running your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100? Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson shows you how. Here's a brilliant video about the the future of publishing. Self-published or eBook writers might want to explore this new way to market print books without a middleman. Enchanced editions of eBooks are good [...]
Industry News: 3/13/10
I found out about two fun sites for writers. The Guide to Grammar and Writing and the WordCounter. For the latter, I loaded in a first chapter and it told me which words were used most and how many times. In an interview at Novelists Inc., Random House Senior Editor Shauna Summers says she works on primarily romance and women's fiction. [...]
Industry News: 3/6/10
We're having our first agent guest blogger this Monday, the fabulous Jennifer Schober from Spencerhill Associates. She's written a great blog and she's taking questions. Be sure to stop off and comment. Agent Jessica Faust from Bookends posted her New and Updated Publishing Dictionary. She says it's an "ever-popular post." Agent Donald [...]
Industry News: 2/27/10
Books Inc. owners are writing the formula for success for their San Francisco stores. It feels good to read positive news about bookstores. Therese Walsh sent me a tip that agent Jenny Bent wrote a great post on STET!, the Backspace blog, on author-agent-editor fit. This was the first time I've been to STET! and I'm wondering why it took [...]
Industry News: 2/21/10
Do you know if your library has e-books you can check out? With either this link from Sony or Overdrive, which many libraries use, it's easy to find out. I was surprised to find out that my library has 100 e-books available for check out. Michael Cader's analysis of last Thursday’s New York Times piece on e-book pricing went out to paid [...]
Industry News: 2/14/10
More news on e-books. From John Makinson, Chairman and CEO of the Penguin Group: "Today's e-book is a direct descendant of the 1930s paperback." He gives a bit of history and information on the business side of publishing, then adds: "Publishers will flourish in this new economy so long as they keep these issues in perspective and understand [...]
Industry News: 2/10/2010
The fight between Amazon and Macmillan has been big news this week, with Amazon removing the Buy links for Macmillan books in a dispute over pricing. I read last night on Twitter that the "Buy" links were up, so all is well now. But a lot of people were angry at Amazon, and many others say that publishers need to lower prices to stay in the [...]
Industry News: 1/30/10
Romance is going to Yale! Historical writers Lauren Willig and Cara Elliott are teaching a romance novel course at Yale. 80 interested students applied for 18 slots. If you're looking for an agent, you might want to follow the Ask Agent site on Twitter. I hear it has a lot of good information. Do you write Chick Lit? It's listed as one of [...]
