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According to a helpful tipster who received the detailed guidelines, Changeling Press will be publishing erotic inspirational fiction. Okay, maybe erotic is the wrong word. They’re looking for novellas (12,000 – 18,000 words) that include characters coming to terms with their own sensuality. The usual rules (what is it with people and their aversion to […]

The cynic inside sees this as a marketing ploy, the tip of the iceberg, that sort of thing. Why does the world now need The Yellow Submarine: The Book? Wasn’t a song, an album, and a movie enough? I guess it’s the convenient marketing tie-ins: Paul McCartney will also pen a children’s book while the […]

Following up on our previous wide-eyed story about Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss…it appears the book is destined to be an international bestseller. Sure, it may never achieve the status of, oh, Elements of Style, but a modern book for modern times? I’m waiting for my copy. For authors out there who watch […]

Supposing I accept the concept of hip Canadian writers (and, as I’m not sure I accept the concept of hip American writers, this is a stretch), I still have to wrap my brain around the concepts of: a) CanLit (Canadian literature), and b) HipLit (should not require explanation). And now it turns out the young […]

Today’s PW Newsline is reporting that the New York Times Book Review is looking at ways to increase volume (by making reviews shorter) and to add more mass market (i.e., the stuff people buy and read) reviews. Sam Tanenhaus, the section’s editor, spoke at PW’s annual summit in Manhattan. Publisher’s Weekly

I don’t know about you, but I can’t keep up. Chick lit, mum lit, hen lit (not, alas, about chickens), lad lit (in which men prove they haven’t forgotten the lessons of Alan Alda). And, of course, the hottest trend in the market: gossip lit. I think this quote from the New York Times article […]

Publisher’s Lunch has scooped Drudge!!! Today’s Lunch reports that the publication date for Bill Clinton’s long-awaited (okay, I admit it — I hardly even give the book a passing thought) memoirs has been set. The book will precede the national conventions. Bill is apparently scheduled to meet with his publisher’s salespeople. Oh well, the scoop […]

And finally, for those of you who don’t head major corporations or have unique insight into the nineties, there is another option for publication: the hanger-on. In this case, Kevin Spacey’s brother (a Rod Stewart impersonator. Go figure.) will spill the dirt on the brother he affectionately calls a “weirdo.” Yeah, with family like this, […]

Nothing like Monday morning for celebrity book deals, huh? Tina Brown, late of Vanity Fair and Talk and, I think, still a host of her own television show, was given beaucoup bucks to publish a story of the heady, crazy nineties. Set in a time where the poor grew rich and then poor again, The […]

As we move toward increased censorship (seriously, people it was a breast, not a murder), it’s nice to know there’s still a place for down and dirty sex in books. The classic novel Naked Came The Stranger is being rereleased. If you don’t know (and if you don’t know, shame on you!), this book is […]