Donna Bagdasarian has joined the Maria Carvainis Agency. While we’d love to point you the Carvainis website, sigh, it appears to exist in name only. However, in what we see as positive first steps, they do have a domain name and Bagdasarian does have a listing at Publisher’s Marketplace. Contact info is: Maria Carvainis Agency, Inc. 1350 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 2905, New York, NY 10019, (212) 245-6365, (212) 245-7196 (fax). Donna Bagdasarian
Bloomsbury Publishing has named Kathryn Belden to the position of executive editor. She’ll be handling both non-fiction and fiction. (Via Publisher’s Lunch) Bloomsbury Publishing
Atria Books continues to grow, adding Peter Borland as senior editor. He’s in the non-fiction group, focusing on popular culture, narrative non-fiction, and memoirs and biographies. (Via Publisher’s Lunch) Atria Books
Whew — sometimes you wonder how one keeps up with all the changes that happen inside a publishing house. Over at Orion Publishing Group, it’s been a bit like musical chairs (only, we suspect, without the music). For those keeping track, Jane Wood is now editor-in-chief. Kate Mills is switching from editorial director to deputy publishing director. This is because Jon Wood is now publishing director for Orion Fiction. Probably other minor shuffling has also occurred (if we’re getting the gist of this, there appears to be an unfilled editorial director’s office out there). Orion Publishing Group
First, we have to say that we believe there was no need to turn a fine book like The Polar Express into a movie. Film could add nothing to the experience. Second, we want to mention that our first encounter with the movie’s trailer left us unsettled and not the least bit intrigued. It wasn’t much of a surprise to discover it, well, tanked with most people. What, you say, can’t you at least give it a chance? No, not in this instance. In order to recoup just the production costs, the movie would have to gross somewhere in the
We are finally catching up on our backlog of blog reading, and remembered we hadn’t posted a link to BookAngt 101’s published author survey (we’re not feel especially sharp at the moment, but suspect he’s looking for input from published authors only). Deadline is end of business, Sunday, 11/21/2004. Helpfull, this gives you until midnight. Hmm, we’re unclear which midnight, but suspect it’s East Coast midnight. Those people always assume they’re the only ones with time zones. Mad Max Perkins promises to keep all input as confidential as his true identity. A Call to (Published) Writers
Often, when we find an interview of interest, we like to point out something that particularly excited us. Usually, it’s a line or two that makes us say, yes, that is what we want people to get out of this article. Then there are those moments when, in order to accomplish our lofty goal, we feel it would be easier to copy and paste the entire interview. Saves us the effort of declaring a favorite and leaving the rest behind. Such is the case in Dan Wickett’s interview with author Dayne Sherman (Welcome to the Fallen Paradise. Read the interview.
I would start, then I would get tired, and I would finish — that would be the end of the story. Eventually I realized, This probably isn’t the way to write. Five Debut Novelists. One Rock ‘n’ Reading Tour.
A month or so ago, we posted about an author who claimed she’d been investigated because certain research triggered Patriot Act alarms. This story came from a trusted source and a trusted publication. This week, we’ve received several pieces of information indicating the author profiled in the article may have been, well, lying. She is certainly being investigated, but for other reasons. Though we hesitate to say this, but other trusted sources have indicated the author under indictment and the author who made the Patriot Act claims are the same. Booksquare’s trusty investigative journalist, who worked day and night on
We must say, with all the controversy and discussion surrounding the National Book Awards, we expected something along the way of fireworks. A denunciation of the process. A Native American accepting the award on behalf of someone. Random violence because someone said something someone else found offensive, though nobody could explain why. We may have to stop watching television for a little while. Lily Tuck won the fiction award, beating out a host of competitors whose lack of commercial success generated more column inches than analysis of their work. The 9/11 Commission did not win the non-fiction. Other authors won
