After the weekend, Amazon said to the world, "Well, we can't help but do what Macmillan says, because they have a monopoly on their own titles." (Well, that's one way to put it.) The wonderful Barbara Vey of Beyond Her Book posted about it as it was happening, with both Amazon's letter to the public and Macmillan's letter to the public side by side ( Read more... )

I keep a release list on Google docs of all the upcoming books that I want to purchase. Sometimes, "upcoming" turns into "missed that pub date last month," sadly. I also keep an excel spreadsheet of all the books I've been reading (which I started because the Glamazombies, Mark Henry's mailing list community, put up spreadsheets for everyone to ( Read more... )

The news is out (via Publishers Weekly): Bloomsbury is changing the cover of Justine Larbalestier's Liar to stop misrepresenting the main character of the book. They're rejacketing the hardcover for the October release. The new jacket has not been decided on yet -- it may be a text version like the Australian jacket, or it may feature an African ( Read more... )

So many book birthdays today!

Welcome to the world, Thorn Queen by blue_succubus; The Eternal Kiss, featuring a short story by kazdreamer; My Soul to Take, rkvincent's first YA novel; Destined for an Early Grave, the fourth installment of frost-light's Night Huntress series; and Demon Inside by stacia_kane, who is a guest today over at Bitten by Books. Whew ( Read more... )

I just have to say: you livejournal people are far too interesting and difficult to keep up with. I had far more concrete writing plans for today, but spent a good chunk of the day reading other people's ljs instead ( Read more... )

We're a week into the New Year, and I haven't really put together a list of resolutions. I'm not sure that I will. I do have a goal of forming an actual spiritual practice (rather than a haphazard spiritual observance). The same is true of my writing. I think I lost track of my apprenticeship somewhere along the way and need to get back on the ( Read more... )

There were links aplenty today: frost_light had an excellent post on writers and money, shanna_s told her readers how to help convince her publishers they should publish her fifth book in her series, and livelongnmarry has been a flurry of posts as the beginning of an auction for which the proceeds will go to supporting the continued legality of same-sex marriage in California. ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the well wishes for safe journeys! We did have a wonderful time abroad, and of the novels I brought with me, I finished almost all of them. If you knew the reading load for the course itself, you would realize that this is either an astonishing feat of speed reading or a realization that I wasn't, in fact, getting graded. (I did read ( Read more... )

Today is probably the busiest Monday I've had in awhile: from work to a lunch date to picking up the clothes I'll need for the Greece and Turkey trip (I've lost two or three blouses since then, and having something lightweight with sleeves makes visiting Turkish mosques easier). This means I've not yet gotten any work done, but I may yet accomplish ( Read more... )

Nearly all of my B&N preorders have shipped and should be arriving on my porch in the next few days. So I'd like to take this moment to wish a happy Book Birthday (in some cases, belated from earlier this week) to:

• frost_light's One Foot in the Grave,
• melissa_writing's Ink Exchange, and
• shanna_s's Don't Hex with Texas

Welcome to the world, books ( Read more... )