My author friends are up in arms over the whole ebook thing and the decline of traditional publishing. No one knows what’s going on, including The People in New York–the publishing houses, editors, agents–and they’re the people we rely on to guide us. No one knows what the publishing landscape is going to look like [...]
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Blind Gossip and Books
Posted in books, celebrities, gossip, tagged blind gossip, blind items, books, derek jeter, dwayne wade, gabrielle union, gossip, hollywood gossip, kindle, minka kelly, nook, nook vs. kindle, reading on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Two of my favorite things together here from agcwebpages.com, a blind-item gossip site (with guesses in italics), that usually turns out to be pretty accurate. BlindGossip.com. December 15. This actress’ boyfriend has been hinting to her that he got her a very special Christmas gift… and that it’s even better than the one she wanted. [...]
Velvet Underground Biography to be Published
Posted in books, celebrities, music, publishing news, tagged publishing news, rob javanovic, rob jovanovic, rob jovanovic velvet underground, velvet underground, velvet underground biography, velvet underground biography st. martins, velvet underground biography to be published, velvet underground book, velvet underground: peeled on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s something some of you may be interested in, from Publisher’s Marketplace: Music journalist and author of biographies on Big Star, Pavement, Beck, Nirvana, Michael Stipe and Kate Bush Rob Jovanovic’s THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: PEELED, exploring the mystique of one of the most important bands in rock history, with exclusive new contributions from band members [...]
MOTLEY CRUE: THE DIRT
Posted in books, celebrities, memoirs, music, reading, writing life, tagged Los Angeles Music Memoir, Motley Crue, Motley Crue Memoir, Motley Crue the Dirt, Music Memoirs, NaNoWriMo, Nikki Sixx, The Dirt Motley Crue, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil on November 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I am looking for inspiration for my L.A. music story (as if 50 journals and enough excitement on my part to set off a fireworks display isn’t enough). So I asked one of my Seattle music critic friends for rock & roll memoir recommendations and he suggested Motley Crue: The Dirt-Confessions of the World’s Most [...]
Chilean Miners Book to come in 2011
Posted in books, Current events, publishing news, tagged 33 miners, 33 Miners Buried Alive, Chilean miners, Chilean miners book, Jonathan Franklin, Jonathan Franklin Guardian, Miners rescued, publishing news on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To the surprise of absolutely no one, there will be a (at least one) book coming out about the miraculous ordeal of the 33 Chilean miners. Transworld plans to capture the “compelling human drama” of the Chilean mine rescue, acquiring 33 Men, Buried Alive: The Inside Story of the Trapped Chilean Miners by Guardian journalist [...]
The Glass Castle, a Memoir
Posted in book reviews, books, memoirs, reading, tagged books, glass castle, glass castle jeannette walls, glass castles, jeannette walls, memoirs, misery memoirs, the glass castle on September 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The woman at the used bookstore by my house recommended The Glass Castle as “a book for people who don’t even like to read.” I flipped through the first few pages and didn’t buy it, but I couldn’t get the first image — a woman in New York looking out of her taxi window and [...]
