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Our sense of humor is having a rough time getting out of bed this morning, so we’re thinking we may have to go back and read this article from Slate more carefully. After all, they cannot possibly be suggesting that our beloved Dr. Seuss is driving children away from books. Now don’t get us wrong, […]

Yes, Regal Literary is one of those agencies: they are looking for something that’s not the same old, same old. And they mean it. Agents Joe Regal, Gordon Kato, and Peter Steinberg want audacious (unfortunately, they don’t want audacious genre fiction; we suppose it depends on you define genre, however). As always, check out the […]

If you’ve been on the Internet for any length of time (and you’re a writer), you notice certain trends. Newbies who encounter the wealth of jokes they’ve never read before, and their joy at sharing these gems with everyone they know. Innocents who become paralyzed by manuscript formatting to the point they can’t sleep or […]

Of course you should serve wine with a poetry reading. We naturally expect to be offered vino the moment we walk through the door. So what makes Felix Dennis’s promise of wine so different? The good stuff. He swears he’ll be serving decent wine to go with his poetic offerings. Dennis, owner of Maxim and […]

If you were to say to us “there are too many books in bookstores”, we would laugh. Probably politely, but we would laugh. We’d cover our mouth with our hand (that’s the polite part) and snigger away. We’d also think something along the lines of, “Is she crazy? Of course there aren’t too many books. […]

Over at Crown (part of the Random House family), they’re surely running out of office space. Luke Dempsey will be acquiring serious non-fiction (so don’t be thinking you’re gonna slip anything non-serious into his slush pile). Random House

And the updates just keep coming. We are stunned by the movement, especially considering the weather. Jen Bergstrom has been promoted to publisher for Simon Spotlight and Simon Spotlight Entertainment. Simon Spotlight Entertainment hits shelves in Fall, 2004. Simon & Schuster

Michele Martin was added to Avalon Publishing Group’s org chart. She’ll be overseeing their four publishing houses: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Marlowe & Co., Nation Books, and Thunder’s Mouth Press. Avalon Publishing Group

Sobel Weber Associates, Inc. has added Mare Marino-McCullough as contract manager. Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.

Over at HarperCollins, things are hopping. Roger Freet is now senior editor of Harper SanFrancisco. Kate Travers was promoted to editor at Harper Perennial. HarperCollins Harper SanFrancisco Harper Perennial