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Sci-fi groping brouhaha

Harlan Ellison brought some much-needed scandale to the Hugos when he groped fellow sci-fi scribe Connie Willis and kissed her for good measure when accepting his Special Committee Award this week. He also put the ... Read More »

August 30, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Grass opts for openness

By Cassandra Drudi

Yahoo! News is carrying a Reuters story today reporting that Günter Grass is getting a pat on the back from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem for his decision "to waive restrictions on his Nazi ... Read More »

August 29, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Is CanLit edgy?

By Nathan Whitlock

A story in The Toronto Star asks whether contemporary Canadian literature is or isn't "anti-urban and anti-modern in spirit, and inimical to experimental writers" – like Douglas Coupland, who sparked the debate with an online ... Read More »

August 25, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Snakes on our blog

By Cassandra Drudi

PW Daily has a story about Sterling Publishers' cashing in on the marketing behemoth that is Snakes on a Plane by churning out -- wait for it -- Snakes on a Sudoku. According to the ... Read More »

August 23, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Vietnam adjusts to new book business

By Cassandra Drudi

Literary Saloon links to a VietNamNet Bridge story on the difficulties Vietnamese publishers face. Vietnam has been tightening control over copyrights in the wake of the ratification of the Bern Convention for Literary and Artistic ... Read More »

August 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

HarperCollins gets one up on Google

By Cassandra Drudi

The googlewatch blog is reporting today that "publishers who want to make their books searchable online" now have a non-Google option to turn to. LibreDigital, " a division of Newstand, which provides exact digital duplicates ... Read More »

August 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

More on GraSS

By Cassandra Drudi

The fallout from Gunther Grass's SS confessions continues to fly fast and furious, with everyone throwing their two cents at the man, hoping to gouge out an eye or at least chip a tooth. Bookninja ... Read More »

August 15, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Dedicate that book wisely

By Cassandra Drudi

The Sydney Morning Herald has a fun wee piece on the perils of lovey-dovey book dedications that might come back to haunt you later, and a dedications page's potential as a zinger launchpad. "But, when ... Read More »

August 9, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

It’s crowded at the top

By Nathan Whitlock

Nicholas Clee has a story in The Times about three books that claim to be #1 bestsellers, and the vaguely dishonest, semantical games their authors and publishers play to justify that claim. One book was ... Read More »

August 8, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

To sell or not to sell: the now-non-existent question?

By Cassandra Drudi

The Dallas Morning News contains an article by Jerome Weeks that stresses the need for authors to know how to promote their work. And he doesn't mean the bare-bones basics of not getting drunk at ... Read More »

August 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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