Join me, Andrew Sean Greer, Ann Packer, and editor Alan Rinzler for a panel on writing and publishing the novel, moderated by literary agent Ted Weinstein, tonight at 826 Valencia. The $100 fee supports the programs for kids at 826 Valencia. 6-9 p.m. Join us for this evening seminar about the process of writing and publishing a novel. Our moderator will lead an expert panel in a conversation about the trials, tribulations, and thrills of working on longer fiction. In addition to reflecting on the writing process, the panelists will address issues related to the publishing aspects of writing,...
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Rushdie Redux
From Publisher’s Lunch today, quoting a report from The Guardian: Thirteen people have been arrested in Turkey as part of an investigation into an ultra-nationalist gang reported to be planning the assassination of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. According to reports in the Turkish press, the author of international bestsellers including My Name is Red was targeted as part of a campaign to sow chaos in preparation for a military coup, scheduled for 2009. Happier news: Amanda Eyre Ward’s wonderful novel, Forgive Me, described by Bookmarks as “a page-turner with deep moral underpinnings,” just came out in paperback yesterday. Farewell...
Big Day for Liar’s Diary
Long gone are the days when blogs are just an amusing side-note to print as a way of promoting books. Case-in-point: Liar’s Diary Blog Day. Today, some 300 bloggers are joining together to promote the paperback release of Liar’s Diary, by Patry Francis. Anyone who has published a book knows that, after the years of writing and editing, after the galleys have been proofed, after the cover is finalized, the work of promotion begins. This latter–and these days, essential–part of the publishing process takes a great deal of time and energy. Which is where the bloggers come in today....
San Francisco Chronicle Endorses Barack Obama
From the editorial: In a Jan. 17 meeting with our editorial board, Obama demonstrated an impressive command of a wide variety of issues. He listened intently to the questions. He responded with substance. He did not control a format without a stopwatch on answers or constraints on follow-up questions, yet he flourished in it. He radiated the sense of possibility that has attracted the votes of independents and tapped into the idealism of young people during this campaign. He exuded the aura of a 46-year-old leader who could once again persuade the best and the brightest to forestall or...
Indie 50
The Hollywood Reporter recently published an article titled “The Indie Power 50: Execs Shaping the Indie Landscape.” About Newmarket partners Will Tyrer and Chris Ball, HR says: Since forming in 1994, the duo has been at the forefront of some of the most interesting indies that have crossed over to the mainstream, including 2000′s “Memento,” 2002′s “Whale Rider” and 2003′s “Monster.” And, of course, there’s the biggest indie hit ever: Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ…” This year Newmarket acquired the film rights to Michelle Richmond’s novel The Year of Fog, but Ball and Tyrer spent 2007 refinancing...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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