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For personal reasons, we do not encourage the use of puns. Except for really good ones. We like those. See headline below. Plus, it’s Awards Season, and we do like to keep tabs on our favorite honors. Like the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award. It should go without saying that someday we hope […]

We get the idea of a high-concept thriller. Mostly. For example, there is potential in a plotline like this one: But “third-party strategy,” as it’s known in the advertising world, has recently had its perils for PhRMA, the major lobbying group that represents drug manufacturers. The plan was to commission a fictional thriller to hype […]

It is the BS policy to remain perplexed until someone explains every little detail, in detail. For example, we are not surprised by the idea that a self-published author might land a deal with a traditional print publisher. Happens all the time. What makes no sense to us (and, admittedly, the caffeine hasn’t reached the […]

It is either with pride or shame that we admit we are not a full-fledged geek. We’re thinking pride, but we also feel we should have read more Philip K. Dick. If only to say we’ve read Philip K. Dick. The books certainly sat on the coffee table long enough. Then again, if osmosis really […]

We have been informed that it is cheating* to use the same article for two different purposes on the same day. Normally, we would try to work our way around the issue by, well, posting this little piece tomorrow. Today, however, we have decided to live life to the fullest** and that includes writing about […]

The headline below says it all. We are going to hide under the covers for a while. Please send messages by carrier pigeon once the danger has passed. Britney Spears to Write a Kabbalah Children’s Book?

Warren Buffet is, apparently, the world’s richest person. Richer than the Queen of England. His personal story is one of triumph and heartbreak*. Buffett devotees sit at his feet and absorb wisdom the way most of us down French fries**. The world is salivating for a chance to read the Buffett story — just let […]

Pardon us if we’re thinking that the Google project is the most exciting thing to happen in the publishing industry since the printing press. Not since mass-production of books was made possible has there been such opportunity. We read an interesting piece this morning that addresses something we haven’t considered: fear of the unknowable. But […]

We begin Monday with the uncomfortable knowledge that it’s (and we surely do not know how this happened) October. Meaning we are now approximately ten months behind on several projects. The question before us now is whether it better to become an overachiever or set our personal all-time record for procrastination? Over at the Litblog […]

It took us a while to get to last week’s New York Times story about manga and the girls who read it, but we have a good excuse*. We have now read enough to feel confident in our ability to recap the highlights: publishers didn’t realize that girls’ market would be so big (despite the […]