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It must be the super-strong coffee, but we couldn’t let this one pass. Name a book, go to Hawaii. Oops, that’s wrong. Name a book, be a character. We’d much rather go to Hawaii. Deadline May 31, 2004. See the website — they have lots of rules and stuff. The Carol Higgins Clark Hawaiian Adventure […]

The Wall Street Journal did a story on women who write thrillers. We thought, “Wow, we’d be interested in reading that.” Then we remembered…you must subscribe to read content on the WSJ site (we’ve done this in the past, but decided to skip the exercise; plus, we thought we’d be sitting with a print copy […]

We (obviously) think blogging is a great thing for writers. And those who like to share their every thought (we don’t advise this — most thoughts are pretty dull). Then there’s the Nick Denton/Jason Calacanis pseudo-feud. Now comes this particularly coy profile of Denton and Gawker Media. Turns out there’s no money in blogging. Or […]

We felt our recent streak of locating agency websites was a fluke. After all, we were hitting jackpots left and right. Never fear — the world has returned to normal. The Strothman Agency has gone public after flying under the radar for a while (they’ve apparently been functioning long enough to make their lack of […]

We have refrained (mostly) from making jokes and/or comments about Bergdorf Blondes. From what we’ve read, it would simply be too easy — and what fun is that? But we can’t resist this story: in which Plum Sykes fires her agent, and her agent, Elizabeth Sheinkman of the Elaine Markson Literary Agency (you can guess […]

First, the story from Variety has a suspiciously…normal headline. That sort of makes us think the whole thing is a prank. Second, we’re of the belief that movie studios should keep their grubby paws out of publishing. Sure, Time Warner enjoys some success, but for New Line Cinema to acquire The Chicken House, a UK […]

It is uncanny how close Liz Miller’s column on adaptations hews to our recent experience (ironically — or perhaps not — when we saw Hellboy). First, our mother poked us over and over, saying, “this isn’t what I think it is, is it?”, then the man next to us leaned across two empty seats to […]

What is the saying? The truth is stranger than fiction? We generally find that to be true, but, then again, we’ve had some unusual experiences in our day. As has author Marian Keyes. While she says (yes, we believe her) that her new novel The Other Side of the Story isn’t truly autobiographical, early reviews […]

We realize we’ve blasted agents for their rather interesting approach to the Internet, and that’s a bit unfair. Publishers also deserve to share the spotlight. For example, when we learned that Nancy Hancock (formerly of McGraw-Hill) is moving to Touchstone Fireside, we thought: let’s get more information. We got as far as the description of […]

We spent a little extra time in line at the grocery store today — somehow the customer in front of us made it out of the store without paying. We weren’t clear on the details. Our time was spent looking at the new issue of Newsweek. As it turns out, America’s bestselling author is not […]