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Another BRE vacancy
Sarah Weinman of Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind passed along another bit of news: Critical Mass, the NBCC blog, reports that Sally Williams of the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune is departing as of...
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Tips for Kindle users
I met up with a couple book publicity colleagues for lunch and, perhaps not surprisingly, our conversation turned to the Kindle vs. Sony’s eReader at one point. I returned to the office to find an...
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What do all the imprints mean?
Generally speaking, I would have to concede that publishing is not, in fact, brain surgery. The concept of the “imprint,” however, is one that has befuddled both those not in publishing — as well as...
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Morning Brief — Thursday, September 4
… Sarah Palin … Sarah Palin … Palin … Sarah … Even Michael Phelps didn’t attract this much attention. (Then again, Phelps isn’t running for office.) *** Media Mob (and pretty much everyone else)...
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Morning Brief — Monday, September 8
Sarah Weinman posts Part III of her Pubisher Imprint Report Card. This time she discusses the various Hachette imprints including Little, Brown and Grand Central. For those of you who may have missed...
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Morning Brief — Tuesday, September 9
Suzanne Van Atten is the new books editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. *** Sarah Weinman from Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, presents Part IV of her examination of imprints at...
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Morning Brief — Wednesday, September 10
Sarah Weinman from Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind checks in on The Penguin Group (Berkley, Penguin Books, The Penguin Press, Putnam, Viking, etc.) on yesterday’s Publisher Imprint Report Card,...
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Morning Brief — Monday, September 15
The Swivet, via slunch, offers an explanation of the book publicity process. It’s a great guide for authors (and publicists) because it offers a handy publicity timeline. One thing that I would add...
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Book review roundups
Once upon a time, I used to go through 50+ book sections every weekend to see which of our books were being reviewed. Then my company got a subscription to Nexis. Then Google Alerts got invented....
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The end of the Book World as we know it … or not
Many have bemoaned the end of the Washington Post’s stand-alone book section, and as a book publicist, my initial reaction was angst suitable for the approaching apocalypse. Bloggers, not...
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