Little, Brown’s COO, David Kent, will leave the business this week. He said more good-byes during the London Book Fair, the last stop on his worldwide farewell tour.
Lemony Snicket and How to Publicize Your Book Without Trying
A forthcoming series of four new books by bestseller Lemony Snicket, ‘All The Wrong Questions,’ was ingeniously leaked to the press last week.
Author Sara Zarr on Future of Realism in YA Novels
Author Sara Zarr’s fourth YA novel, How To Save a Life, is a realistic look at death and pregnancy. It has been called her finest work to date.
America Pacifica Author Anna North on Blogging and Fiction
Anna North, author of “America Pacifica,” discusses how her job as a blogger for Jezebel.com informs and influences her life as a novelist.
Can Publishers Cash In on Video Gamers?
The game L.A. Noire has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. If Mulholland Books gets even a fraction of that audience to buy its companion book of fiction, it will surely cash in. By Edward Nawotka The video game industry is a behemoth. In financial terms, it represents some $10.9 billion in revenue in the US, according to the latest statistics …
LA Meets NYC: Mulholland Books Marries Hollywood, Video Games and Fiction
Little, Brown’s new imprint is delivering page-turners with Hollywood pedigree and has signed unique partnerships with film producers and video game companies. By David Duhr NEW YORK: Albert Brooks in The Muse compared being a screenwriter in Hollywood to being a eunuch at an orgy: “except that the eunuch can at least watch,” Brooks’ character says, “while the screenwriter is …
International Bestseller Coming Soon: Official Steve Jobs Biography Announced
By Hannah Johnson On Sunday, Simon & Schuster in the US and Little, Brown in the UK simultaneously announced the forthcoming publication of iSteve: The Book of Jobs by Walter Isaacson. The book is scheduled for publication in early 2012. Isaacson, the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography …
Self-Promotion, With Integrity: How Stephen Elliott Creates His Own ‘Rumpus’
By David Duhr For a man who equates his life to that of a retiree, Stephen Elliott has had a cyclonic year. Since publishing The Adderall Diaries in late 2009, Elliott has gone on a 33-city house-to-house reading tour, created his own iPad application, formed a lending library for 400 readers, and is currently adapting his book into a screenplay. …
Publishers Training Abu Dhabi, Day 2: Lessons in Book Design
By Salwa Shakhshir This week Salwa Shakhshir, a children’s book publisher from Amman, Jordan, is attending the second annual Publishers Training program organized by KITAB in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Read coverage of Day 1. Day 2, Publishers Training, Abu Dhabi From the minute I read about this lecture I knew I was going to learn so much from it and …
By Turning Authors into Speakers, Publishers Profit, Even in Recession
By Karen Holt NEW YORK: US publishers’ in-house speakers bureaus, essentially nonexistent just five years ago, are turning out to be surprisingly recession-resilient — one of the few upbeat notes in this overall gloomy time for the book industry. Publishers are splitting appearance fees of between $5,000 and $20,000 (sometimes more) with their authors, representing a welcome source of found …