I’ve been staring at the same website for 15 minutes now, chuckling and cackling. After browsing through the BEA website wistfully, I took a turn into BOOK: the sequel—an incredibly humorous project from Perseus Books Group. Basically, it’s a collection of first sentences of any imagined sequel to a book. You submit [...]
Archive for May, 2009
BOOK: the Sequel–and exercise
Posted in Exercises, books, tagged BOOK: the sequel, creative, humor, Perseus Books Group, quick exercise, Writing on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Power of Book Lovers
Posted in Book Business & News, Responses to Other Blogs, tagged 2009, blockade, books, empower, news, philippines on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How can anyone not feel so happy, so empowered, and incredibly smug about this? Thanks to Kristin Nelson for pointing this out in her blog yesterday:
The Philippines 2009 Book Blockade
…Earlier this month (Shelf Awareness, May 4, 2009), Hemley had written about “The Great Book Blockade of 2009,” in which customs officials in the Philippines [...]
Passing Notes
Posted in 3. Resources, Personal, Reflection, tagged elementary school, FOUND, ideas, memory, notes, past on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I once had a plastic Star Wars pencil pouch. One side was black, with young Anakin Skywalker and Padme in the forefront; the other, clear with stains of graphite and color. I don’t have it anymore. When I was about 11 or 12 and still living in New Jersey, I threw it out because of [...]
Elisabeth Sifton Wary on Book Business
Posted in Book Business & News, tagged book, business, elisabeth, news article, publishers lunch, publishers marketplace, sifton, The Nation on May 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I was browsing through my unread e-mail (22 in all) when Friday’s (May 22) Publisher’s Lunch brought my attention to a certain article. In The Nation, senior vice-president of Farrar, Straus, & Giroux and author Elisabeth Sifton writes on the long decline of the publishing industry and who is to blamed for it. You can read the [...]
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