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The Happy Booker is entertaining again, and this time she’s using the good china. What else can a girl do when she learns that one her literary loves has discovered a new blog and is telling the world? Well, yes, corraling him for an interview does seem like a logical next step, and she’s done […]

Never let it be said that we don’t use our time wisely. For example, we rose with the dawn (or something closely resembling dawn) to get things done. It’s been an hour and we’re still thinking on the notion of actually doing something. Until then, allow us to delight in the analysis of weak earnings […]

We were recently complimented on our avoidance of profanity (thank you, Karen Palmer who needs a website and/or blog to make linking easy), but sometimes we are pushed to our limits. It was once suggested that we have low tolerance for stupidity; this is true. If you want to push our buttons, facile works. It […]

Here’s the deal — Jill Monroe is supposed to step in and return this blog to a higher level of discourse (education of youth and stuff). Due to browser issues (use Firefox, refresh cache, save the world from our rants, not that we’re offering advice or anything), she’s unable to get to our reliable system. […]

It took us a dizzying while to figure out what was happening in the Independent article linked below. Note: lack of specificity confuses Americans. Diagrams, however, help. At first we were all “yeah!” at the taunting of anti-reading corporate tastemakers (or something like that) then it lead to Richard and Judy (even after a year, […]

Oh yeah, the cranky machine is running at full capacity. We may require a time out. There is, out there (there being someplace we can’t pinpoint, but it surely exists) a problem with the sales of literary fiction. Now, we do not have at our fingertips a graph of historical sales, but, we suspect, literary […]

Something tells us we’re about to have a cranky day. We would apologize but we’re one sentence into what promised to be an interesting article (promise broken) and already we want to shoot off long diatribes to the journalist’s editor. This is how it starts, isn’t it? E-books have yet to crack the publishing industry, […]

We understand exuberance — we’ve been excited about things plenty of times, but our innate sense of fiscal responsibility generally saves our checkbook from our enthusiasm (also, the husband). Perhaps it’s because we don’t look good in red. This may be why we do not publish novels. Sure, Little Brown & Company have proven themselves […]

Though we shouldn’t have to say this, we will: we hate the covers of 99.9999% of romance novels we encounter. Let us be clear — we like naked men, though tonight, we may have had one or two mental images that were unnecessary. Our fascination with the female breast is exactly zero. Unless you have […]

This will be our final post on Judith Regan and her move-to-Hollywood caravan*. Frankly, we cannot understand why our normally reliable short attention span continues to find this fascinating. We spend less time gawking at accidents while parked on the freeway. Oh, who are we kidding, we remain fascinated because discerning the true reason for […]